Truth tested in Oscar nominees
Nicely timed for Tuesday's Kathryn Bigelow piece defending "Zero Dark Thirty," today's Variety Eye on the Oscars: Best Picture Preview section features a piece by yours truly discussing the level of truthfulness in all of this year's nominees.
It's an experience that forces the audience to forgive a film's lost verisimilitude in order to enjoy it -- a leap, naturally, that not everyone is willing to make. Typically, the films that resonate with audiences while most expertly navigating these waters -- that are simultaneously true to their world and to our world -- become the leading candidates to win the Academy Award for best picture.
It's ironic, then, that the best picture nominees of 2012, a year that has been celebrated as one of the better years in cinema of recent vintage, have simultaneously drawn such praise and doubt of their accuracy, their believability and ultimately, their value. It's a debate that factors into the competish for Oscar's grand prize. ...
Read the entire story here, then check out the rest of today's awards stories.
A native of Los Angeles raised by two parents and "Hill Street Blues," Jon Weisman ankled his scriptwriting career and began working for Variety in 2004, subsequently serving as associate editor of features and television reporter before becoming awards editor. He promises not to use this platform to retroactively campaign for Oscars for “The Misfits,” though he’d feel justified in doing so.
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