{"id":1493,"date":"2013-02-04T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T16:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/summathissummathat\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2015-02-20T17:22:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T00:22:11","slug":"righting-one-of-oscars-greatest-wrongs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/summathissummathat\/2013\/02\/righting-one-of-oscars-greatest-wrongs\/","title":{"rendered":"Righting One of Oscar&#8217;s Greatest Wrongs"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 82.323232% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/109074482?et=kIf-87P4RThO43T2qK83Ag&amp;sig=uPaviHXoaf6a6gW0O5ibNHUUecm8PhTh2qMdxspErAw=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"489\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0 0 0 10px; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/109074482\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">View image<\/a> | <a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">gettyimages.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thanks to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.variety.com\/thevote\/2013\/01\/cinematographers-in-tight-oscar-race.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Variety<\/em> series<\/a> on this year\u2019s Oscar-nominated cinematographers, I am reminded of one of my cinematic life\u2019s most painful, inexplicable truths:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0005683\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Roger Deakins<\/a> has never won an Oscar.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who has seen none of the 2012 films in question, I can\u2019t speak to Deakins\u2019 worthiness in this particular contest. Where I to find myself in the \u201cPredict As If Your Life Depends On It\u201d scenario, I\u2019d bet that Claudio Miranda\u2019s work on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0454876\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Life of Pi<\/a><\/em> is most likely to bring home the statue. And he may be\u00a0eminently\u00a0worthy. But setting particular films aside for the moment, Deakins needs to win an Oscar and soon, lest I lose all faith in the Human Race. Or in the Oscar Voters. (Those <a href=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/baring_my_heart.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Venn circles<\/a> might not actually touch, come to think of it.)<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to quell my (previously spectacularly justified) fears that Deakins will not get a little gold status for his mantle, I\u2019m watching the \u201cMoney Train\u201d sequence from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0443680\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford<\/a> \u2014 <\/em>a strangely hypnotic (and sadly unpopular) film that was dramatically enhanced by Deakins\u2019 artistry. (It was the following sequence in particular that first made me sit up and take notice.)<\/p>\n<p>And when I\u2019m done, I think I\u2019ll watch the opening scene from the Coens\u2019 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1403865\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">True Grit<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0Just to be safe. Or the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/vf2lGWQY7fc\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">closing sequence from <em>Kundun<\/em><\/a>. Or\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0368447\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Village<\/a><\/em>. Or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0243133\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Man Who Wasn\u2019t There<\/em><\/a>. Or \u2026you get my point.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/tknjw9Bn6lM\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/tknjw9Bn6lM<\/a>\n<p>(Bonus Linkfest: <em>TAoJJbtCRF<\/em> was adapted from a book by Ron Hansen, a Catholic deacon who has been the subject of some really interesting pieces. Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/september-7-2012\/catholic-writer-ron-hansen\/12897\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">this PBS profile<\/a>. Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redorbit.com\/news\/entertainment\/1481024\/for_writer_faith_isnt_taboo_ron_hansen_is_upfront_about\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">this article<\/a>. Or this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=91356850\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cFresh Air\u201d piece<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small; line-height: 14px;\"><strong>Attribution(s):<\/strong> \u201cConfused Roger\u201d courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Getty Images<\/a>, which allows the use of certain images \u201cas long as the photo is not used for commercial purposes (meaning in an advertisement or in any way intended to sell a product, raise money, or promote or endorse something);\u201d \u201cRoger at the 83rd Academy Awards\u201d provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viatorci\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">David Torcivia<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viatorci\/5491256162\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Flickr<\/a> and made available through\u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Creative Commons<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/legalcode\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">license<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View image | gettyimages.com Thanks to the\u00a0Variety series on this year\u2019s Oscar-nominated cinematographers, I am reminded of one of my cinematic life\u2019s most painful, inexplicable truths: Roger Deakins has never won an Oscar. As someone who has seen none of the 2012 films in question, I can\u2019t speak to Deakins\u2019 worthiness in this particular contest. 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