Reply #65: It Shouldn't Have Been Nominated For Best Picture

[KharmaTrain]

In all due respect, it was a great movie, but I look at it that this award is designed at movies that encompass many elements of the film genre...cinematography, acting, directing, writing and so on. While F911 has some of these elements, there are other films that fit this criteria far better.

This was and is a documentary; a totally different type of film. This is similar to confusing fiction with non-fiction. Since Moore took the film out of consideration for Best Documentary in hopes of getting it on TV before the election, it will probably get few if any honors or mentions. But so be it.

Moore got his message across and that was the purpose of this movie. Turned on or turned off, this movie was intended to make people think, not to win hardware. The money the film grossed and the amount of attention/publicity he got from it should have told him he accomplished what he did...something the academy never could. Sure, it'd be a blast to see him make another scene at the Awards ceremony, but I'll be satisfied with seeing his next project.

The best thing to come out of F911 for Moore, and those of us who appreciate his work, is he will be able to continue making these movies with little interference from "mainstream Hollywood" since they make money...and in Tinsel Town that's the ultimate Osacr.