1. So if I'm reading Ross right, he's mad that CODA won and Dune didn't. Now, I like Dune quite a bit but it's worth thinking about why Dune wasn't really in the running despite being in the (longish) nomination list.https://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/1508950829885235200 …
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4. In addition to being a sci-fi spectacle, Dune is also only half a movie (2nd part might have more of a shot) but also humanely remote. It's all about awe & grandeur & not, as the kids say, relatable (unless you're a genetic superman/messiah).
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@bellye66 and I argue about various Oscar stuff -- the slap, of course, but also who won and why, Campion's triumph, Dune versus CODA etc.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/podcast-the-slap-heard-round-the?r=bh54&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …Show this thread
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And Lord of the Rings didn't win until it's final chance, right?
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I feel like the consensus is that Two Towers was probably better but Return of the King won as a nod to the whole trilogy.
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Dune would have won if it wasn’t a Part One of Two
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Watch for Oscars with part 2, especially if it goes big at the box office (which I expect it will).
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they can't let the nerds win.
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Weird tho, the return of the king was the least good and the least literary
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exactly! The first was the most deserving out of the three. Master and Commander badly should have won that year. Academy is always "catching up"
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Dune is about as close as you can get to being Literature in SFF without being Tolkien. the only reason Tolkien counts as Literature is because he was a professor of Anglo-Saxon studies at Oxford and wrote LOTR in that context. (I love it but it's true)
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