Huh, Nebula nominations...

[agilebrit]

To my everlasting shame, I haven't actually read anything that got nominated this year (yet).

However, I've seen all the movies:

BRADBURY AWARD (outstanding dramatic presentation)

Star Trek, JJ Abrams (Paramount, May 09)
District 9, Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell (Tri-Star, Aug 09)
Avatar, James Cameron (Fox, Dec 09)
Moon, Duncan Jones and Nathan Parker (Sony, Jun 09)
Up, Bob Peterson and Pete Docter (Disney/Pixar, May 09)
Coraline, Henry Selick (Laika/Focus Feb 09)

Avatar, clearly, should not win. Nothing with a script that horrid can be considered "outstanding," no matter how visually stunning it is, sorry. And after we saw Star Trek, I turned to my husband and said "The big dumb summer blockbusters have started early this year." (Snerk, "red matter.") So, as much as I enjoyed it, I don't think it should win either.

The other four movies though? DUDE. I loved them all, for different reasons in each case.

How do you pick???

For me, I think it's really between "Moon" and "Up." "Moon" has stuck with me for a long, long time, and "Up" exhibited so much genius storytelling just in that first fifteen minutes that it should be on anyone's short list. "District 9"--I think I need to watch it again. "Coraline" is lovely as well, but it just doesn't rise to the same level, I don't think, as "Up" and "Moon."

Make your case in comments, o flist.

Comments

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Seriously, if Avatar wins BP on Oscar night, I am going to fling something at my wall. Not that I'll be watching because Alec Baldwin makes me throw up in my mouth a little, but I'll be following on the interwebs.

And surely Avatar won't win an award from a bunch of writers. Right?

[stephiel.livejournal.com]

Let's hope not, because there wasn't that much about Avatar's plot which made for good storytelling.

Moon, OTOH, was spooky, terrifying and kept me on the edge of my seat. So much so that I just ordered the Moon DVD. :)

(Seriously thinking about seeing RDJ in a sci-fi movie now...)

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

Avatar might win because it is the straight Hollywood line on a lot of things.

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Well, hopefully a bunch of SF/F writers won't follow the "straight Hollywood line" when it comes to their Best Picture award.

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

I doubt that it will win best picture. It will probably get an award for special effects. Many SF/F writers are as "progressive" as anyone else in Hollywood.

When is Oscar night?

[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

Sunday, March 7. And oh, god, I hope it doesn't win Best Picture. I'd rather see anything get it than that.

The Nebulas get voted on in May. They don't have any categories like "best special effects." It's a straight "best dramatic presentation" category.