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| Academy Award Nominee Predictions, 1999 | |
Written by DAVID KEYES January 4, 1999 So this is how we close a year. This is how we honor our best movies; how we challenge our opinions and concepts of the year’s greatest films: the Academy Award predictions. Just attempting to touch the subject is likely to brew up some mischief among critical opinions. The 1998 year closed with a record-breaking number of great films; how can you try to pick which ones will and will not get nominated? Half the time, the Acadmey likes to shut out some of its deserving contenders in the nominations. They demonstrated that earlier this year when they failed to nominate movies like "The Ice Storm" for deserving categories. Last year, "Evita" was shut out of some of its most merited effort. The list of complaints, of course, goes on and on, but what can you do? This year, it’s fairly obvious that some of the better movies might not even be considered by the Academy as great acheivements; in fact, almost half of the year’s good movies will be overlooked for some of the year’s more mediocre ones. But, of course, the three best films of the year, "Beloved," "Wilde," and "Elizabeth," are entitled to any nominations they get. Actually, these three films might be the biggest competitors, though "Wilde" was released earlier this year and may have a poorer chance at the trophy than the other two. The predictions for Academy Award nominations are as follows. Listed in each of the given categories are the six of the strongest contenders for this year--three of which are the year’s most assured nominees, and three of which are wild cards that are potential finalists, but not likely to get the nominations. Therefore, the wild card choices listed are personal favorite considerations, which I hope get final recognition, even though it seems unlikely. These choices, of course, are all really deserving nominees, but as we all know, the Academy enjoys nominating films and giving cold shoulders to others despite what we critics think. Therefore, these predictions are just the obvious choices, speaking in terms of the Academy, of course. One of the great movies of the year was "Deep Impact," but do you think that the Academy would consider major category nominations for it? Our opinions will be more reflected in a show like the Golden Globes, which is a discussion all by itself. © 1999, David Keyes, Cinemaphile.org. Please e-mail the author here if the above review contains any spelling or grammar mistakes. |
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