Todd’s Movie Blog

There is one Academy Award Winner from this year that just doesn’t make sense to me.  Avatar wins for best cinematopraphy.  Seriously?  A film in which almost three fourths is completely CGI wins for best cinematography?  How does that work exactly?  Does the ciniematographer stand looking over the shoulder of the computer programmer and tell him how the animation he is working on should look if he was setting up a shot in the camera?  How does computer animation even qualify for the award?  No wonder no one takes the Oscars seriously anymore.