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Why James Cameron did not win the Academy award for best director for Avatar
- LostInTheWoods 17y agoThe mistake most people make, including this article, is thinking that Avatar was an "animated" movie. It was not animated, it was motion-captured. If you saw the making-of Avatar, which I think aired on HBO, you would see that Cameron did actually direct the movie. He was able to see a realtime 3-D representation of his actors and set using a special hand-held camera.
- mr_eel 17y agoOr maybe it simply wasn't very good? It need not be some prejudice against new technologies. I'd say that the Academy has a big soft spot for fancy new film tricks, so in this case, it's good to see they weren't dazzled into choosing it for best film.