If you can’t make it to TheOneRing.net’s Los Angeles Oscar Party and want to watch the Oscars with some fellow Tolkien fans, you can join in on our online Oscar party which will be running from the red carpter before the ceremonies begin through the night! Just join us in #awardsparty on Barliman‘s server and watch how many of the 13 Oscar nominations Fellowship of the Ring will in on the biggest of all stages. Hopefully we’ll have something to celebrate!
Day: March 24, 2002
Kenosha native Jim Rygiel took the long road to Hollywood’s highest honor. He went through New Zealand. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee graduate turned special-effects wizard had been asked by a studio executive to spend six months in Prague working on “Blade 2,” and “I said, ‘No.’ I didn’t want to move away. Then she asked, ‘How about moving to New Zealand for three years?’ And that was a little more interesting.” [More]
Thanks to Jocelyn for the link.
‘The view from the top of Beverly Hills was especially intoxicating for three-times Oscar nominee Richard Taylor. Speaking from a “swanky” pre-Oscar party last night, Taylor said the Hollywood hype on the eve of the 74th Academy Awards was overwhelming for the New Zealand contingent. Taylor has been nominated for best costume design, best visual effects and best make-up in Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring.’ [More]
Nienna sent in a report on what Peter Jackson said while he was on the Charlie Rose show on Friday night. [More]
From Nienna:
The Charlie Rose show (on PBS) interviwed the three directors nominated for both Best Picture and Best Director Friday, the 22nd. He talked to PJ first for about a half hour. PJ told about their struggle to get someone to fund their movie, and trying to find someone that would let them make three movies all at once, ultimatly leading them to New Line. He also
talked about casting, how important they knew this was going to be to the fans of Lotrs and how they decided on Ian Mckellan to play Gandalf. Charlie asked PJ what the hardest thing about making the movie was and he told about how hard it was to have actors that had to be different sizes. How they had to have two of each set, and two of each prop, to make the different actors appear different sizes. He also talked about how this wasn’t so much of a fansaty movie, as a historical movie. He mentioned how Tolkien had written the books with the idea of creating a ancient mythology for England, and this is what set Lotrs apart from other fanasty movies. You could tell throughout the whole interview what an avid fan of the books PJ was…this came out in everything he said. I was surprised to see him on the show, which I never watch, and just heard a mention of Lotrs while channal surfing, because usually whenever anyone Lotrs related is on TV, I hear about it here first. So it may of just been a rerun.
Some of the fun of waiting in anticipation for the Academy Awards themselves is predicting what Oscars Fellowship of the Ring will pick up on the night itself and arguing your case. So why not run a thread on our Message Boards for which TORn fans can prophecise glory or failure for Fellowship of the Ring and their reasons why? [More]