More media coverage of the Dark Campaign…

by Blair on Dec.04, 2008, under NEWS

Hot on the heels of our stories in New York Magazine, Defamer, and the National Post comes some coverage from some other pretty awesome media outlets.

Dark Horizons has this to say…

“Dark Knight” For Best Picture Oscar?

By Garth FranklinWednesday, December 3rd 2008 8:13am

It is the most financially successful film of 2008, it has the highest average score (8.5/10) of any live-action film of 2008 on Rotten Tomatoes, and is set to make the list of many critics Top Ten films of the year later this month.

With many of the serious awards contenders suffering backlashes and a lot of ‘was good but not great’ style comments, the chances of the “Batman Begins” sequel getting a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars remains small but possible.

That’s why the Dark Campaign.com has begun, a site that acknowledges that the film has an “uphill battle ahead of it for Academy Awards nomination chances” and aims to “turn the tide on those long odds”

Cinema Blend weighed in with this article.

Fans Kick Off The Dark Knight’s Oscar Campaign

The best thing about this year’s Oscar season is that, if The Dark Knight makes it in as a big contender, it will be propelled by the sheer power of millions and millions of fans. The unofficial For Your Consideration site DarkCampaign.com is only part of the evidence, though it’s probably the best-looking one too. Some Dark Knight fans have gathered together to build a site dedicated entirely to getting Oscar nominations for what, for my money, is still one of the best movies of 2008.

The highlight is a clip reel of the movie, which we’ve embedded below but appears in much better quality on the site. They’ve picked a lot of moments that you haven’t seen over and over again in the trailers– the Joker saying “hi” to Harvey Dent in the hospital, the police scattering after the mayor is shot, Harvey threatening Gordon’s family. The only part missing is the tractor-trailer flipping over, though that’s a better argument for the movie’s effects than its status as the best movie of 2008.

Having seen the bulk of this year’s Oscar contenders (which I’ll write about later today in my Oscar column), there’s not much that holds a candle to The Dark Knight. The DarkCampaign guys mention 1999 as a possible precedent for this year, in which visionary movies like Fight Club, The Matrix and The Iron Giant were overlooked in favor of Oscar bait like The Green Mile. Let’s not let history repeat itself! The Dark Knight deserves a Best Picture nomination, but to get there, it’ll need all the help from fans it can get. Luckily, there’s a whole lot of us.

In other news, we’re up to 170 Diggs .

1 comment for this entry:

vampyra
December 7th, 2008 on 11:13 pm
The more media coverage The Dark Knight gets, the better its chances on Oscar night. So come on fans let’s get out there and give ‘em whats for!