"Lincoln" Film Award Nominations & Wins

[Liz Rosenthal]

(01-14-2013 08:34 AM)Linda Anderson Wrote:  "The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is a fancy name for a group of 87 mostly freelance, often part-time scribes who, asserts Deadline Hollywood’s acerbic Nikki Finke, 'won’t grant membership to the real foreign journalists at the prestige media outlets across the world. … And even though the entire entertainment industry ridicules the awards, it props them up because they’re a useful marketing tool for the studios and networks.'"

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According to Wikipedia, since 1991 the Oscar went to Golden Globe winners ten times: Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, The English Patient, Titanic, American Beauty, Gladiator, A Beautiful Mind, Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and Slumdog Millionaire.

So there was a Golden Globe - Oscar correlation about half the time. I guess that's somewhat comforting - that there is still a 50% chance that Lincoln could win Best Picture and Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (besides Best Actor) at the Oscars. (Or maybe the chance is greater, since Ben Affleck was not nominated for a Best Director Oscar.) I especially felt badly about Tony Kushner's loss. I'm a big fan of his, anyway, but he did such a wonderful job of distilling Lincoln's character into 2 hours and 25 minutes - and providing a broad overview of the challenges America faced in getting the amendment passed and in dealing with post-emancipation issues. Certainly, between Argo and Lincoln, the Lincoln movie had much more relevance to the issues we continue to face today. Oh, well.