Avatar wins ‘Best Foreign Film’ at 34th Japan Academy Awards
 

Hell yeah! :airquote:

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Avatar wins

Arigato gozaimasu ma Nippon. :D

Well duh. It's Japan. They love stuff like Avatar. :P

...Come to think of it, they love almost anything Hollywood fantasy/sci-fi pumps out. :awesome:

+1 to Avatar, yet another award is always nice :D

Hell yeah :)

Proves that anywhere the message doesn't put them in such a bad light loves Avatar :)

Yay! Congrats to Avatar!

didn't know they had the academy awards over there, this is awesome, very awesome only :awesome:

Avatar is statistically the most popular movie in most countries of the world.... But apparently the U.S.A likes Hurt Locker more *facepalm

Omedetou gozaimasu! :D

There are three reasons they gave it the award:
1. For the novelty of a female director - they decided they were going to give it to one and she was the only one
2. Politics (oh look, a pro-Iraq war film won? In America? Over a much better and more successful film with a message about what militaries REALLY do? I wonder why :rolleyes: )
3. They don't like JC. The only reason Titanic won (which I don't particularly like personally, but it is still admittedly a good film) is because they had already not given him the awards he deserved for The Abyss (a far better film than Titanic), and doing so again would lose them all credibility.

HNM!!! You nailed it ma tsmukan, it was all politically driven! Like I mentioned below, I will NEVER watch the ACADEMY'S EVER AGAIN!!! They are BANNED in my house. Not only was I pissed off AVATAR didn't best picture, it totally should have AT LEAST won for best music score too. James Horner rules!! ;)

Yes, that's exactly right and I'm so sorry that the academy wanted to crush and ruin Cameron's masterpiece Avatar for just a worthless piece of crab named Hurt F*cker!
But, now the most important thing is that the Avatar experience connected with people all around the world. We got that message, we impressed by that experience and now were are here for ever!

They didn't even bring The Hurt Locker back to the cinemas (in my region) after it won the Oscars (unlike Slumdog Millionaire a year before, and that one was worth the Oscars). I downloaded Hurt Locker from internet, it was a good movie, but not that special that it will be remembered a long time after or re-watched.
On German TV ("ZDF" channel) there was a year-review with the most important national and international events of 2010 (about 3-4 events per month on a 45 min. show). Avatar was mentioned for its impact and success, but not a word of the oscars.

That just shows it - it isn't often at all when a film is considered a significant event, and certainly not in the year it was released :D