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THE 75TH ANNUAL ACADEMY AWARDS NOMINATIONS. A COMMENTARY BY ALEX GRANT


Entirely predictable and dismayingly dull, with the exception of well-deserved nominations for Diane Lane [ UNFAITHFUL ] and for Sir Michael Caine [THE QUIET AMERICAN ] the one saving grace of the Oscar nominees roll-call for 2002 is the prominence given to women actors.
At a time when the pro-Christian / anti-female thrust of George W. Bush’s sinister Republican administration is – worldwide - denying women all access to long endorsed methods of contraception and abortion, and rescinding a woman’s right to control her own body. Only a madman would force a victim of rape to bear the resultant child, surely to God ? Rent a DVD Dubya and see Hollywood celebrate the strong, self-defined woman, huh?

For the most part the movies nominated for the bulk of the Academy Awards are dull and uninspired – GANGS OF NEW YORK a juvenile indulgence in incessant brutality from Scorsese; CHICAGO a very insecure ( when not insipid ) gloss on the cynical sharp-witted Broadway success; THE TWO TOWERS a prolonged gruelling tribute to rather cheesy SPFX and a far less accomplished epic than the ebullient first part; not a good year for "major motion pictures". Even Todd Haynes’ FAR FROM HEAVEN was merely a finicky, obsessive-compulsive, and honestly anguished copy of a Fifties’ template for the ‘weepie’ melodrama, Douglas Sirk’s ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, with the addition of some excruciatingly stilted homilies about racism and homophobia.

© Alex Grant 2003

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