OK, I am being overly dramatic because James Cameron didn't win an Academy Award for Avatar.
How a cinematic spectacle, a nearly 3 billion dollar box office phenomenon 12 years in the making doesn't qualify as 'Best Picture', I don't know what does.
If the Lord Of The Rings hadn't won best picture the year it was eligible, I'd have boycotted the Academy Awards from now on. There is no point in watching it if you know a certain type of film will never win no matter how good it is; it cheapens the whole thing.
I'm done ranting...so I'll turn this to something positive:
The fact of the matter is, those people are all living their dreams; at the top of their craft.
Since I saw Avatar I've wanted to start doing more creative work again; quite often I get hung up on all the non-fiction writing I do (which is a lot!), coaching, running my business, etc. that I lose track of the creative stuff.
So during the Academy Awards I took out some paper and started scribbling ideas; who knows, it might be the project that wins me an Oscar in a few years =)
B. Dave Walters
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