{"id":23,"date":"2013-02-27T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-03-26T09:45:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T14:45:16","slug":"how-does-that-work-the-oscars-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"How Does That Work? (The Oscars, 2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscars.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Academy Awards\u00ae<\/a> have&nbsp;come and gone again, and although I didn&#8217;t get to watch them, I was left a little puzzled by some of the nominations and winners.<\/p>\n<p>I rarely get out to watch films at the theatre&#8211; I haven&#8217;t been in over a year, so I haven&#8217;t seen any of the nominated movies. But I did find it strange that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1024648\/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Argo<\/a> could win best picture yet its&nbsp;director,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000255\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Affleck<\/a>, didn&#8217;t even get a nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently it directed itself.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe Chris Terrio&#8217;s script&#8211;&nbsp;good enough to win an&nbsp;Oscar\u00ae&#8211; was so good, that any old schmuck could&#8217;ve done it.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings me to my main question: How do they judge the Best Screenplay categories?<\/p>\n<p>Do they base it off the finished movie? (Which could be quite different from the script. Directorial changes, improvisation, editing could all depart from the screenwriter&#8217;s vision)<\/p>\n<p>Or do they&nbsp;judge it off the merits of the script?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;m&nbsp;better served spending brain cycles working on my script rather than thinking about these questions, so with that in mind,&nbsp;it&#8217;s time to head off.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the Academy Awards\u00ae have&nbsp;come and gone again, and although I didn&#8217;t get to watch them, I was left a little puzzled by some of the nominations and winners. I rarely get out to watch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academy-awards","category-oscars"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}