Awards presented March 23, 2003
The nominees were ...
... when they should have been ...
And the Oscar went to ...
Chicago. Who would have thought we'd ever see a good movie musical again? Unfortunately,
Chicago didn't initiate a new golden age for them -- director Rob Marshall came seriously a-cropper with his next attempt,
Nine. (He's now working on another, Stephen Sondheim's
Into the Woods, with Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp, Chris Pine, and Meryl Streep. We shall see.)
... when it should have gone to ...
The sublimity of Hayao Miyazaki's unleashed imagination takes my breath away. It hardly matters that I can't really tell you what his film is about, or even describe what happens in it without getting hopelessly confused. It just seems to me that this is what movies, especially animated ones, were created for: to take you somewhere you've never been and could never get to on your own.
Spirited Away did win the best animated feature Oscar, but there's no reason why it shouldn't have taken best picture anyway.
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