{"id":53067,"date":"2012-01-24T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=53067"},"modified":"2012-01-24T12:16:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T17:16:36","slug":"bret-mckenzie-oscar-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/01\/24\/53067-bret-mckenzie-oscar-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"Bret McKenzie, Oscar nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">There are already a lot of Oscar winners working on <em>The Hobbit<\/em>. Soon there might be one more. When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the 2011 nominees, Bret McKenzie (&#8220;Figwit&#8221; in <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> and Lindir<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/01\/24\/53067-bret-mckenzie-oscar-nominee\/figwit-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53069\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-53069 no-lazyload\" title=\"figwit\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/figwit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a> in<em> The Hobbit<\/em>) turned up in the &#8220;Music (Original Song)&#8221; category for his &#8220;Man or Muppet&#8221; from <em>The Muppets<\/em>. Congratulations and good luck to Bret! The Oscars will be awarded on February 26.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the highest number of nominations went to Martin Scorsese&#8217;s <em>Hugo<\/em>. Like<em> The Return of the King<\/em>, it bagged eleven&#8211;also without a single actor nomination. The parallel isn&#8217;t complete, since <em>Hugo<\/em> made it into two categories that ROTK didn&#8217;t, Sound Editing and Cinematography. It was not in two categories that ROTK won, Makeup and Original Song.<\/p>\n<p>For a full list of nominees, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/oscar.go.com\/nominees\" target=\"_blank\">Academy&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are already a lot of Oscar winners working on The Hobbit. Soon there might be one more&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1594],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-figwit","category-bret-mckenzie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-dNV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53067"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53093,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53067\/revisions\/53093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}