Executive producer Dick Wolf said its clutch of nominations was a validation of a very difficult project.
"Anybody who says it's not nice or it doesn't mean anything to get this many nominations, it's the ultimate sour grapes because it sure feels great," he said.
Anna Paquin, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee," HBO
SUPPORTING ACTOR, MINISERIES OR A MOVIE:
August Schellenberg , "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee," HBO
Aidan Quinn, "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee," HBO
OUTSTANDING WRITING FOR A MINISERIES:
"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee," HBO
DIRECTING FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR DRAMATIC SPECIAL:
"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee," HBO
MADE-FOR-TV MOVIE:
"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee," HBO
ART DIRECTION FOR A MINISERIES, OR MOVIE:
"Bury My Heat At Wounded Knee," HBO
CASTING FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR A SPECIAL:
"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee," HBO
CINEMATOGRAPHY FOR A MINISERIES OR MOVIE:
"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee," HBO
COSTUMES FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL:
"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee," HBO
SINGLE-CAMERA PICTURE EDITING FOR A MINISERIES OR MOVIE:
"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee," HBO
HAIRSTYLING FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL:
"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee," HBO
MAKEUP FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL (NON-PROSTHETIC):
"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee," HBO
MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL (DRAMATIC SCORE):
"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee," HBO
SOUND EDITING FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL:
"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee," HBO
Bury My Heart may deserve some of these nominations, but it doesn't deserve a nomination for best writing or made-for-TV movie. My review explains why.
Writerfella here --
ReplyDeleteFrom THE NOTEBOOKS OF LAZARUS LONG, Robert A. Heinlein's millennia-long-lived character: 'A 'critic' is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased -- he hates all creative people equally...'
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
What does your ignorance of critics have to do with this posting...anything?
ReplyDeleteA fictional quote by a fiction writer doesn't tell us much about the art of criticism. Here are some real quotes from real people on the subject:
"The understanding that underlies the right decision grows out of the clash and conflict of opinions and out of the serious consideration of competing alternatives."
--Peter Drucker, management guru
"The power to question is the basis of all human progress."
--Indira Gandhi
"It is from the womb of art that criticism was born."
--Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet
"Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic."
--Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), U.S. writer of detective fiction
"Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters."
--Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), British novelist
"To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own."
--Henry James (1843-1916), American author
"Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well."
--Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British author
"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it."
--D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), English writer
"It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic."
--Marshall Mcluhan (1911-1980), Canadian communications theorist and educator
"Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic--a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish poet and dramatist
But I'm a writer and creative person and have been most of my life. So how does your made-up quote apply to me or this blog? I certainly don't hate myself.
ReplyDeleteHere's a list of some great writers who were also great critics:
http://thinkexist.com/occupation/famous_critics
Aldous Huxley
Arthur Koestler
Edgar Allan Poe
Emile Zola
Ezra Pound
Friedrich Nietzsche
George Bernard Shaw
Henry Louis Mencken
Soren Kierkegaard
Kingsley Amis
Lionel Trilling
Oscar Wilde
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Susan Sontag
T.S. Eliot
Umberto Eco
Vladimir Nabokov
So what do we have here? On the one hand, many giants of arts and letters who understand the role of criticism. On the other hand, you. Sorry, but I'll go with the giants over small (minded) people like you any day.
I'll also point out that you're a hypocrite for criticizing me constantly in this blog. I'm creating an information resource and you're creating nothing, so you feel qualified to judge me. You're a perfect example of someone who criticizes rather than creates (his own blog).
Meanwhile, I've also written some 400 articles and countless commentaries in the last two decades. Apparently I'm writing more and criticizing more than you are. You can think of me as a new Mencken: someone who creates and criticizes with equal proficiency.
Writerfella here --
ReplyDeletewriterfella quoted Robert Heinlein and did not make it up. Your ostensible 'criticism' either is scathing at its deepest and merely faint praise at its lightest. 'Criticism' in fact means 'to critique' which is an examination and not simple condemnationn nor simply 'to criticize' just for the health of it. Plus, writerfella musta hit a nerve or two because that always elicits verbal hemorrhages from you...
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
You didn't answer any of my questions again. I guess you were too afraid.
ReplyDeleteHeinlein made up the quote, obviously. It wasn't uttered by a real person in a real context.
Did you read my lengthy critiques of End of the Spear, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, and SCALPED (to name just three of dozens of examples)? I generally do the exact opposite of merely condemning works; I examine them in depth. If you're too obtuse to understand that, you have no business commenting on the matter.
Yeah, you hit a nerve or two. It irritates the hell out of me when someone says something stupid in my blog and I have to waste time responding to it. Try not to say such things in the future, okay?