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'Avatar' At The Oscars: What Went Wrong? Experts Weigh In 'Avatar' At The Oscars: What Went Wrong? Experts Weigh In James Cameron's "Avatar" became the highest-grossing movie of all time in theaters, Compact fluorescent lampbut Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" became the lowest-grossing film ever to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards on Sunday (March 8). Even with Best Visual Effects and Best Cinematography wins to boast about at the night, #xmany thought that "Avatar" would follow behind "Titanic" and bring a windfall of Oscar wins. Critics point to several inherent weaknesses, however, including actor fears within the Academy, traditional notions of film and political trends.

"For whatever reason, boomer-age people, older Gen X-ers [in the Academy] are threatened by it," Compact fluorescent lampjournalist and Hollywood Elsewhere writer Jeff Wells told MTV News. "They feel on some level that they're going to be lost, that they're going to be digitally wiped out in the future."

Wells cited voting actors who are consistently in search of new jobs as the ones who feel they have the most to lose.

"People like JoBeth Williams and others in that branch — we're talking about people who aren't working as much anymore, but they're getting some work and they're marginal — #xthat's most of the Academy's actors branch," he explained. "We're not talking about three percent or four percent that are working a lot and getting big money for it and doing very well."

Dave Karger of Entertainment Weekly's OscarWatch blog disagreed. "I never really felt in my gut that it was going to happen," he said. " 'Avatar' always seemed to me like a movie that would win four or five technical Oscars, Compact fluorescent lampand it ended up winning three,Fire hose, so I actually thought it was going to do a little better than it did.#x I can't see a movie like that winning Best Picture at this stage. It might take a while for a movie like that to be fully accepted." 相关的主题文章：