BY CHRIS HEWITT, Pioneer Press<\/p>\n
After three straight Academy Award nominations, Barrie M. Osborne is glad he gave up on renting tuxedos.<\/p>\n
“I decided the first year it might be wise to buy a tux,” says the 1966 Carleton College graduate. A nominee for producing each previous movie in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, he anticipated Tuesday’s news about being nominated yet again for “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” his own favorite of the three. “I’m very happy. I would have been surprised if we weren’t nominated, to tell you the truth, but winning is another matter.”<\/p>\n
Oddsmakers have 11-time-nominee “The Return of the King” as a prohibitive favorite to take home the trophy, so Osborne is optimistic about his chances when the awards are handed out Feb. 29 at the 76th Annual Academy Awards: “When we haven’t won, I honestly feel it is an honor to be nominated, so I haven’t been disappointed. But it’s always been a dream for me to win an Oscar, a real thrill and a lifetime dream.”<\/p>\n
The dream began when he was a student at the Northfield college, attending screenings of classic movies at the school’s film society. “We used to watch all the foreign films and the David Lean films, and I got excited about what an honor it would be to make a film like any of them,” Osborne said.<\/p>\n
Having spent five years working on the trilogy, Osborne is ready to cap it all off with an Oscar win. And, yes, he will have a speech ready, just in case he needs it.<\/p>\n
This is an article that was printed today in the Minnesota St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper about LOTR producer Barrie Osborne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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