Cowboy Bebop: The Movie Oscar Nomination
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As Oscar nominations draw near, the undersigned feel that one movie has been wrongfully overlooked by the Academy due to the rules.
This movie is Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heavens Door.
The movie has the taste and beauty of a hybrid combining 1940s noir with Science Fiction and dash of present time. It gives a new meaning to Japanese animation, or Anime, which has been largely overlooked by todays film culture due to the atmosphere Hollywood has today. Los Angeles Times writer Charles Solomon proclaimed Cowboy Bebop ...is closer in tone and content to the film noir detective movies of the '40s than to the upbeat musical fairy tales of American animated features. (April 4, 2003)
It is unjust that this movie is ineligible for a nomination due to its international release date. Anime has to be re-dubbed, or changed, into a different language. This takes time. Actors have to be cast; the script needs to be retranslated. After all this is done, then the actors have the difficulty of recording their voices to the movie. This has to be done exactly right, or else the movie looks sloppy and rushed. Cowboy Bebop required this in order for it to be viewable by American audiences. Cowboy Bebop was released in Japan September 1, 2002 and was later released in America April 4th, 2003.
This rule, however, is totally unfair to any anime out there. This rule excludes any anime that is redone for American audiences, making only rushed Animes and American Animated Films eligible for Oscars.
The undersigned would like you to reconsider this rule and please consider Cowboy Bebop: Knockin on Heavens Door for an Oscar nomination.
Sources:
-calendarlive.com: A space cowboy who doesn't pull his punches By Charles Solomon Link: http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-et-solomon4apr04,0,220901.story?coll=cl\%2Dmreview
-Yahoo! Movies: Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2003) Author unknown, http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1808428290&cf=critic&intl=us and http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?id=1808428290&d=hv&cf=info
This movie is Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heavens Door.
The movie has the taste and beauty of a hybrid combining 1940s noir with Science Fiction and dash of present time. It gives a new meaning to Japanese animation, or Anime, which has been largely overlooked by todays film culture due to the atmosphere Hollywood has today. Los Angeles Times writer Charles Solomon proclaimed Cowboy Bebop ...is closer in tone and content to the film noir detective movies of the '40s than to the upbeat musical fairy tales of American animated features. (April 4, 2003)
It is unjust that this movie is ineligible for a nomination due to its international release date. Anime has to be re-dubbed, or changed, into a different language. This takes time. Actors have to be cast; the script needs to be retranslated. After all this is done, then the actors have the difficulty of recording their voices to the movie. This has to be done exactly right, or else the movie looks sloppy and rushed. Cowboy Bebop required this in order for it to be viewable by American audiences. Cowboy Bebop was released in Japan September 1, 2002 and was later released in America April 4th, 2003.
This rule, however, is totally unfair to any anime out there. This rule excludes any anime that is redone for American audiences, making only rushed Animes and American Animated Films eligible for Oscars.
The undersigned would like you to reconsider this rule and please consider Cowboy Bebop: Knockin on Heavens Door for an Oscar nomination.
Sources:
-calendarlive.com: A space cowboy who doesn't pull his punches By Charles Solomon Link: http://www.calendarlive.com/movies/reviews/cl-et-solomon4apr04,0,220901.story?coll=cl\%2Dmreview
-Yahoo! Movies: Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2003) Author unknown, http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&id=1808428290&cf=critic&intl=us and http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?id=1808428290&d=hv&cf=info
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17 December 2015
50.
Jacob Dalton
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This was a great movie and it should have the chance to compete for an oscar just as other great movies
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Ida,LA US
27 November 2015
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Nicholas M
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I think Cowboy Bebop the movie is stunning and the storytelling is great and it is unfair to only let american animation and very quickley dubbed anime to enter because some anime is hurried so it could be considered for a Oscar but when this happens it d
13 November 2015
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Liz Maynard
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Cowboy Bebop really deserves something like this. It is a great show and the movie was outstanding. Please consider this petition :)
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Zack B
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Such a great film should be eligible for such an award. This is the AMERICAN awards,not about the original Japanese version,so the original date should be disregarded.
9 July 2013
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Joseph Q
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The eligibility of this film really comes down to simple situational nuance, and it deserves the same right to nomination as any other dubbed film! Not only this, but the movie was great indeed, well worthy of at least some sort of recognition, which the
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Lisa Watkins
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If this movie is not allowed for an Oscar Nomination it will be unfair to all Japanese anime. It takes time to dub a movie or a show. It wasn't released until 2003 in the US so it should be eligible for the 2003 award. I love Cowboy Bebop, but have not se
12 March 2011
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Dustin B
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it was realesed in japan in 2001.. yea big deal it was released in the US in 2003 therefore shouldnt it be able to be a nominee since it was in the US at the right time
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