Just want to know everyones opinion. I do not ever see the academys ever awarding lucas an award. His days are long gone for that espically with him not being in control of star wars. Plus sci fi usually does not favor to well against the political movies for best motion picture, etc...
I think George Lucas' achievement of creating Star Wars far surpasses any Oscar. Though I can't speak for the man himself.
No; he burned bridges with the Director's Guild and Actor's Guild during the OT, and Hollywood is going to hold that against him forever, I think. That being said, he's gotten a lifetime achievement award.
I agree with you all. Oscars are overrated. I love all 6 star wars movies compared to best picture of any of the movies up for that award!! Glad to hear that lucas might still be doing work after star wars.
I agree. Who cares about the Academy? It's just an award. If I managed to break free from the system I would not expect them to reward me for it.
If George Lucas ever wins an Academy Award, the already rotting reputation of that organization will take another hit.
No, he got an Irving Thalberg award, for producing. Not the same as the Lifetime Achievement Oscar. Anyway, they've really hurt the credibility of that award by moving it to the same ceremony as the technical achievement stuff, so they could keep all the songs and lame banter in the show. No wonder Godard didn't bother to show up and collect his statuette in person. I'm joking, of course. Godard would never be caught dead at the Oscars.
Stanley Kubrick never won an Oscar for Best Picture or Best Director. So Lucas is in good company. Besides, the way everyone at Lucasfilm had been snubbed for all three Prequels probably not made him care about the award any longer. The costuming, the effects, the make-up, cinematography, the scores- whenever a SW movie came out they got snubbed and the awards ended up with the blandest possibly nominee instead. I mean, Best Costume for "Road to Perdition" in 2002 and "Memoirs of a Geisha" in 2005?! Those run of the mill period piece films have NOTHING on Trisha Biggar's work.
Empire Strikes Back wasn't even nominated for best picture, so what does that tell you about the quality of the Oscars? They hate sci-fi and action flicks. Your movie had to send a political message home to win the best picture, or has to be a sappy drama.
He did too get a Lifetime Achievement Award - by AFI. Awards in general, though, suck, as they work against the very nature of art. Art is about personal expression. It's not something to compete with. Knowing that awards are out there waiting, though, that's exactly what "artists" around the world try to do. They try to please certain people in order to receive accolades instead of just expressing something of their own. Because of this, true art can be hard to spot in this day and age. GL's movies, though, fall into that category, since he's been adamantly doing things his way. His movies are his personal expressions. - I've lost Artoo! - Dumb droid! /LM
The Academy only gives awards to people who bow & scrape to them. Lucas has also never made a movie about the Holocaust, gay people, someone dying slowly or anything pretentious.
There's Academy Honorary Awards and that get tossed to some old timers, he may end up getting one just for the hell of it.
I think the Academy are a group of people who love selecting an obscure art house film so they can tout their fine taste in film. Because of this, George will never get an award - he is too mainstream
After the Academy snubbed Jake Loyd for his lighthearted yet poignant portrayal in which he was able to deliver a performance that foreshadowed the heavy handed evil and lent credibility the future Darth Vader's eventual turn away from the Sith teaching... they lost all credibility with me. Is anyone actually surprise that they snubbed the most objectively brilliant writer and director in all of time and history? Never in the annals of film making has a man ever written dialog with so many subtle layers of meaning, weaving together the fabric of language in a rich tapestry lesser artists can only dream of one day achieving. The man is an actor's director, who forges relationships with the artists with whom he directs that brings out performances of which the artists themselves weren't aware they were capable. George Lucas is no mere Kubrick, no petty Coppola, no amateurish Bergman... The accomplishments of the entire film industry are left wanting when compared to any single scene from the least of his movies and it is an absolute travesty of both taste and justice that the Academy doesn't beg George Lucas to relent from his lifetime movie making tour-de-force so that other, lesser directors can at least appear to deserve recognition. The Academy members are clearly jealous, and have obviously conspired, over the years, to give awards only to people that are objectively George Lucas's artistic inferiors just to put him in his place.
Ridiculous how technical stuff is snubbed in favor of actors. For example, best whatever actors get actual clips from the movie with their performances, while cinematography gets a still screenshot. If the camerawork is really so good, maybe we should get to actually see some of it! And cinematography actually gets to show up at the Academy Awards ceremony, where all those actors talk about how the behind-the-scenes people are owed so much.
