Awards presented February 29, 2004
The nominees were ...
... when they should have been ...
And the Oscar went to ...
Call me a geek, call me a fanboy, whatever, but I still rank this trilogy as one of the great moviegoing experiences of my life, and the third film as the capstone -- in fact, it was one of the last movies that impelled me to go to the theater instead of patiently waiting out the video release. I even love all eight or ten of the movie's endings. It got all the Oscars it deserved, eleven of them, tying
Ben-Hur and
Titanic for the record, but setting a record of its own by winning in every category for which it was nominated. (And by actually being a good movie.) I would have preferred a few more nominations, supporting actors for Sean Astin as Sam and John Noble as the craven Denethor, and some kind of special nod for Andy Serkis's motion-capture and voice-over work as Gollum. But let's not get greedy.
