{"id":68814,"date":"2013-01-31T10:54:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T15:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=68814"},"modified":"2013-01-31T10:54:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T15:54:23","slug":"the-hobbit-nearly-missed-its-special-effects-oscar-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/01\/31\/68814-the-hobbit-nearly-missed-its-special-effects-oscar-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"THE HOBBIT Nearly Missed Its Special-Effects Oscar Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hobbit_journey_trolls.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-68816 no-lazyload\" alt=\"hobbit_journey_trolls\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hobbit_journey_trolls.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hobbit_journey_trolls.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/hobbit_journey_trolls-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>Today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118065445\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Variety<\/em> has revealed <\/a>that <em>The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey<\/em> nearly didn&#8217;t get nominated for an Oscar in the special-effects category. As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences keeps pushing the nominating process to earlier dates, films released late in the year sometimes can&#8217;t be seen by those in charge of voting on which ones will make the final cut to compete for the Oscars.<\/p>\n<p>The committee of 40 experts met on November 28 to come up with a short-list of 20 films that the members of the Academy in the special-effects section could see and vote on by January 3 to determine the final five nominees. Problem was, the committee members had nothing to look at from <em>The Hobbit<\/em> except its trailers!<\/p>\n<p>The assumption was that this film would be a major visual-effects contender&#8211;but that was mainly based on the success of <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> and other Weta Digital work. Not all the members of the committee were happy with including a film virtually sight-unseen. In the end,<em> The Hobbit<\/em> got its nomination, but as the chair of the committee told <em>Variety<\/em>, &#8220;There will be a post-mortem to review the rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What will probably happen is that the production companies will be pressured to provide sample reels of the effects in their films at a date early enough to make sure that committee members can see them, even if the film hasn&#8217;t been released yet. As <em>Variety<\/em> concludes, &#8220;Especially Part 2 of &#8216;The Hobbit.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Variety has revealed that The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey nearly didn&#8217;t get nominated for an Oscar in&#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-hTU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68814","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=68814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68820,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68814\/revisions\/68820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}