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[learnedax]

Huh. Return of the King got 11 Oscar nominations, and 11 Oscars. Has that ever happened before?

This backs up my theory that they were cautiously waiting until the third film in the trilogy before giving them the big awards.

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[jducoeur]

On the one hand, I agree that RotK was the weakest of the three films, and probably not in and of itself deserving of best picture.

OTOH, the Oscars simply don't have a way to recognize a split story like this, and the fact is that this really *is* just a single movie, split into three parts mostly for commercial reasons. That's how it was shot, that's how the story is structured, and that was (quite reasonably, in my view) how it got treated by the Academy. Best Picture for RotK was treated as a referendum on the whole thing, and as such I think it was deserved.

Yes, it's a rules hack. But I think it was a fair one for an unusual situation...