A New Academy Award Category?
December 20, 2002 - 10:16pm — smithdm3
I read this on CNN.com...
"Between the lightsaber-wielding Yoda in the latest "Star Wars," the quivering Dobby in the latest "Harry Potter," and now the pop-eyed Gollum, the powers-that-be may have to announce a new category for the Academy Awards: maybe something like Best Non-Human/Computer Generated Performance of the Year." - Source Article
Now wouldn't that be interesting, sounds fair to me.
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Gollum/Andy : Best Supporting Actor
I saw an excellent one hour promo of The Two Towers on Showcase. Just happened to be flipping by on Sunday night. The average movie takes four months to shoot. They did four months of night shootings on Helms Deep! In the rain.
The Rohimm castle (I'm not running to my basement to look up the name & spelling) was built from scratch on a hilltop in the middle of nowhere New Zealand. An hour from the nearest town. They shot for four days and then I guess took it apart. None of the landscape in the scene is digitally inserted, and the wind is certainly real. Remember the flag blowing off? I want to see the movie again just for the landscape!!!
Sorry, back to the point of this thread. They showed 10 minutes on Andy Serkis. It was all him, and it was definitely an Academy-Award-winning performance. No need for a special category in this case. In the scenes I saw, he wore a white suit to act out the part of Gollum with the other actors. He squirmed, jumped and somersaulted just like the digital Gollum. Then he did it all over again in the studio, wearing positional monitors. Then he did the voice-over (I think - I couldn't see how he could possibly get the voice right while jumping around on set).
I wouldn't want those Nazgul on my basketball team. "Grab the ball. The ball. Don't run away from it. You want the ball."
Definitely!
I second the motion. Who else do we need to talk to?
Hmm.... There is an actor listed...
Andy Serkis is credited with Gollum/Smeagol's peformance. I wonder if he'd be able to win the best supporting actor award? I remember seeing something on the "Making of the Fellowship of the Ring" or whatever it was called with this guy (I'm guessing it was Andy) in a black suit all rigged up for motion capture... wonder if he did the voice as well? Would voice and motion qualify as acting?