The Right's next rant: Passion Redux

[Sannum]

I was flipping around the channels, and apparently, the new talking point about "Liberal Hollywood" is that 'The Passion' is getting snubbed during awards season. They are just freaking about it. It turns out, that Mel Gibson's company is actually not promoting it "For Your Consideration" because they think that it should stand on it's own. I can actually respect that, because it seems like studios will even have heavy campaigning for 'Dude where's my car 2" to get a cinematography and editing nomination:eyes: For the first time in more than a year, ol' Mel is doing something that I can understand and respect, but this bitching about how it isn't being advertised and winning awards is going to get very tiresome indeed.:eyes:

On to the next talking point..

[Rumba]

1. Obvious question

Has any film that wasn't promoted by the producers or whatever ever been nominated?

[Sannum]

2. I am not sure.

Probably not in the cyber-age. Last year, I saw "For Your Consideration" ads for Terminator 3, but the actual good films that did not have enough money to promote themselves to be in that positon were snubbed.