With the 2011 Oscars’ all but a few weeks away press gossip is going crazy as to who is going to win what in which category after the nominations were revealed yesterday.
One man who has not been nominated (again) is Christopher Nolan. Without doubt one of the finest directors on the planet and whose films get world wide acclaim will not be featuring in the Best Director category.
Nobody but the voters for the awards will ever know the reason for this sheer travesty. But one can only guess that even all the glitz and glamour of Inception last summer may have stifled him in someway, although we cannot see how that would be?
This years awards gala is surely going to be one of the most hotly contested for some time, and to be fair to Nolan the Best Director category was littered with masses of talent.
I mean really, who would you drop from the list that contains Darren Aronofsky, David O. Russell, Tom Hooper, David Fincher and of course not forgetting The Coens. It would certainly be a tough call and I certainly wouldn’t want that responsibility.
One man who was simply dumbfounded was Hans Zimmer, having already worked with Nolan on The Dark Knight and who provided yet another mind blowing musical score for Inception he was pretty damming as to why Nolan was excluded.
“I cannot believe it,” Zimmer said. “Everybody’s always harping on, ‘Can we do something new that’s successful?’” Zimmer continues. “Well, he did something new that was immensely successful. I think…a little something creeps in that if it is successful, it suddenly can’t be judged as art any more.”
Nolan’s films of the last few years have been big budget blockbusters, Batman Begins and the The Dark Knight were two examples of that and of course there is Inception. But lets not forget the likes of Memento, The Prestige and Insomnia, all well crafted and brilliantly directed films.
Steven Spielberg and James Cameron both legends in the directing world only do big budget (most of the time), and they have both walked off with Best Director awards. Spielberg for Saving Private Ryan and Cameron for Titanic.
It’s not the first time however Nolan has been the victim of an Oscar snub or at least the films he has directed. The Dark Knight landed the late Heath Ledger an Oscar but Nolan was still omitted from the Best Director category, and the film itself was excluded from the Best Picture category.
So what the hell does he have to do, shoot a film in 3D? Make a biopic about a famous icon in world history? Chances are he’ll have to sit on his hands and wait until the day when the Academy final give in and recognise that Christopher Nolan deserves an Oscar…let alone a nomination for his epic talents.
What do you think about Nolan not being in the Best Director category?
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