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Oscar Nominations: Harry Potter Snubbed For Best Picture

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The Huffington Post UK   First Posted: 24/01/2012 15:17 Updated: 24/01/2012 16:43

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The world's most successful film franchise of all time has once again been overlooked for a major Oscar.

Harry Potter bosses and its star Daniel Radcliffe had all hoped the Academy Awards would finally recognise the films series' great cinematic achievements by nominating the eighth and final film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, in a major category.

However, the Hogwarts-based flick, which drew in a massive £23.75m in Box Office takings in its opening three days in the UK, failed to pick up any big nods during today's Oscar nominations.

Radcliffe, who starred as wizarding genius Potter, hoped to see a best supporting actor nod go to Alan Rickman for his performance as Professor Severus Snape in the films.

He said: "I don't think there is going to be another performance from an actor in a supporting role that is so powerful."

But Rickman was overlooked, with the Academy instead favouring Kenneth Branagh, Jonah Hill, Nick Nolte, Christopher Plummer and Max von Sydow.

It's not all doom and gloom for Warner Brothers. Deathly Hallows Part 2 has earned three nominations in the technical categories.

The film has been recognised in the Visual Effects category, and anyone who has watched the first Potter film and compared it to the last can attest to its achievements in this area. It will do battle with Hugo, Real Steel, Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes and Transformers: Dark Of The Moon for the gong.

It is also in the running for Best Art Direction, alongside The Artist, Hugo and War Horse, and will go head to head with Albert Nobbs and The Iron Lady for the Best Makeup Award.

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Jeannette Lacey
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03:03 on 30/01/2012
As a major "Potter" fan (obvious, I should think) I do not believe this last film deserved an Oscar nomination. The directing was horrible; the writing worse - major aspects of the characters and story were left out so that any good character development was all but impossible and unless one had read the books, following the storyline was difficult.

I agree with Patrice77 below: the director and writer reduced Voldemort to a silly melodrama villain: people actually laughed at him in the showings I attended. Other key moments - which should have been heart wrenchingly dramatic - fell flat to me. Harry and Ginny had as much romantic chemistry as an octogenarian arranged marriage - the worst screen kiss I have ever seen. Snape's part was cut down so much during all the films that his purpose in the story was nearly meaningless. Deaths, loves, losses and passions took second place to big explosions and special effects or silly add-on situations. (For example: in DHI, did we really have to watch Harry and Hermione dancing together in their tent for five minutes when so much the story was being ignored??)

These could have been really great films but what happened was they became "products". Warner Bros. may be angry that the Potter films haven't received a "nod", but the only reason they care is so they can market future DVD releases as "Nominated for _ Oscars". If they had cared, they would have taken greater care with theese films
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lily127
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06:56 on 27/01/2012
Fans around the World should throw 'oscars are meaningless parties .
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lily127
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06:44 on 27/01/2012
The Academy has, no doubt, broken it's own back with this outcome. HP was the best movie of the year for me, don't I count? I think HP fans should throw 'The Oscars are Meaningless' parties that Sunday night all around the world -- tell me with Facebook this couldn't happen -- and then tune into Downton Abbey for good measure. I'll give credit where it's due to Jonah Hill and Christopher Plummer but I won't be thinking about those performances a year from now; I will however, always remember the way Alan Rickman owned every particle of space in every scene he had, however short. How even the silence around him seemed to hush itself further in his formidable presence.. That he won't have his name called out is the final straw for the Oscars and me.
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Patrice77
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18:03 on 26/01/2012
The second Voldemort hugged someone, the entire film became a bad parody of itself.
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Elizabeth Winters
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13:23 on 26/01/2012
Academy has become more snobbish and less professional. Deathly Hallows first and second installment are among the best films in a decade with a long lasting visual and emotional impact, in some ways more profound than Lord of the Rings. They snubbed the Dark Knight jem of a film in a similar outrageous fashion. No wonder the show ratings are tanking. Somebody needs to reshuffle the decision making structure there and get rid of the overly politicised process before it becomes a complete sham.
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bten
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19:12 on 24/01/2012
It wasn't nominated for any major BAFTA awards either. One more in the technical categories. It just didn't connect with any voters. Maybe they didn't see the movie or it probably it was just baffling to non-fans
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Jason Wolfe
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18:15 on 24/01/2012
Yet "Tree of Life" got the nod?!!!!!!

Are you making a joke???
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Kevin oss
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17:50 on 24/01/2012
it should have a nomination for a award, maybe the academy has a thing against british sci fi flicks
and dont for get its a establishment, as much as any other
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BebeLush
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17:41 on 24/01/2012
These movies have gotten better and better. The Academy should be ashamed of themselves.
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