[Apologetics] No Major Oscar Nominations for the Passion of the Christ

[Art Kelly]

Although I have some major problems with the Passion
of the Christ, the movie certainly deserved to be
nominated for best picture and Mel Gibson definitely
deserved to be nominated for best director.

This article laments that shameful oversight.

Art

Though Snubbed by Hollywood, The Passion Is Still the
People's Choice

January 25, 2005
 
The media and Hollywood elites may not like The
Passion, and they may have refused to nominate it for
any of the major Oscar categories (though they did
nominate it for three relatively minor categories),
but their smears of the movie did not prevent it from
becoming both highly successful and popular. 

Despite vicious attacks from media critics and
conspicuous snubs from Hollywood insiders, Mel Gibson
and his enormously successful film, The Passion of the
Christ, received more vindication at the 31st annual
People's Choice Awards on January 9. The Passion won
the People's Choice Award for best motion picture
drama for 2004. It may end up being the only major
award the film receives, since the movie industry,
which is notoriously left-wing and anti-Christian, has
gone to great lengths to sabotage and stiff-arm the
picture. In what is one of the most blatant examples
of artistic censorship, Gibson and The Passion were
almost completely shut out of the various awards
programs held in January (the Golden Globes, the
Directors Guild, and the Producers Guild) and were not
even mentioned by most major media critics in their
annual "Top 10 Movies" lists. An exception to this
industry ostracism has been a nomination by the
American Society of Cinematographers for Passion
cameraman Caleb Deschanel. 

The full article is at
http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_300.shtml



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