Quote Originally Posted by charliepanayi View Post
District 9 = science fiction (Oliver beat 2001 to Best Picture, which tells you all you need to know about how the Academy treats science fiction)

Up = animation (another genre which the Oscars ignore)
I don't think these genres are ignored otherwise they wouldn't have been nominated. Science Fiction movies have won Oscars before (Star Wars anyone?), but never for Best Picture to my knowledge. You would think out of ten damn movies they'd pick one that was actually good. The fact that Avatar won the Golden Globe for Best Picture and then The Hurt Locker took home the Oscar for the same category really makes me worry about who is choosing these to win.

Also at the people saying how much balls it took to make Avatar: anyone with a computer, an editing program, and two cameras can do 3D. It's not hard. And he essentially used lots of green screen which made things easier as well. He didn't have to worry about shooting on real sets. It's hard to shoot 3D on actual locations -- well harder than shooting on green screen.