84th Annual Academy Awards, 11th Annual Harry Potter Snub
On Sunday, February 26th, 2012, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt. 2 went head to head with the likes of Hugo, Real Steel, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Moneyball, Drive and War Horse for best visual effects, sound mixing and sound editing. All three were won by Hugo, leaving the vastly underappreciated Harry Potter in the dust.
The Harry Potter franchise has a long history of being nominated but not winning Oscars. Over the course of ten years and eight films, Harry Potter has been defeated at the academy awards. Some argue that this is a result of the exceptionally epic technical scale that the competing films were made on. Avatar, Lord of the Rings, Inception; all of these are renowned for their sound editing, visual effects and other technical assets. However, the Harry Potter movies have always delivered on a technical level and are every bit as good.
Besides nominations that should have been wins, there are several instances of Harry Potter deserving best actor and best actress nominations that it didn’t receive for its theatrically trained actors. Neither Maggie Smith, who faithfully portrayed Professor McGonagall in all eight films has won two academy awards nor Alan Rickman who has won an Emmy and been nominated for a Tony were ever recognized for their performances.
Personally, I believe that Harry Potter certainly should have been acknowledged long ago for what it is and the impacts it’s had on society. I believe that the Harry Potter movies, the later films especially, exemplified everything you look for in a film. I think they are written off as children films, when in truth they were full scale, epic fantasy films that more than deserve a place in the Oscar hall of fame.
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