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    Theoretical question

    What would it take for a zombie movie to win an oscar??? I mean, what would the story have to be, who would direct it etc.
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    Meryl streep and something about AIDS
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    A huge budget, major A list actors, and a well known Hollywood director.

    don't hold your breath


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    Maybe this upcoming movie...?

    Quote Originally Posted by Eyebiter View Post
    A huge budget, major A list actors, and a well known Hollywood director.

    don't hold your breath
    World War Z?

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    ^Maybe?
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    Despite the awesomeness of zombie films,i doubt they would ever get an oscar,purely because they are zombie films!(we know some are better than most oscar nominated films anyway )
    I think they only way it would happen is if there were to be a real life zombie outbreak,and a film was made about it later
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    When was the last time a horro film got best picture. Has that EVER happened?

    Maybe sound or effects, but I doubt any actor or director from horror film is going to get one. Genre pictures rarely do.
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    I think The Exorcist came pretty close, The Shining too.
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    i think a documentary on "shaving your nuts" would win an oscar b4 any zombie film!

    not that i wouldn't want to see that,but then the genre would turn into main stream crap!

    "just like what they did to the punk rock style"!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by coma View Post
    Meryl streep and something about AIDS
    You got that right!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cykotic View Post
    What would it take for a zombie movie to win an oscar??? I mean, what would the story have to be, who would direct it etc.
    Well, it would have to be a zombie film that actually didn't have zombies in it. In fact, it wouldn't be about zombies at all. And actually, it would not even have a hint or mention of the dead, death or anything remotely close to the subject.

    And maybe directed by Oliver Stone.

    But in all seriousness, <what everyone else said>. I think, in a perfect situation, World War Z done as an epic could have a chance.
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    It is hard for me to imagine a scenario that would allow an Oscar for a zombie film. The academy gets it wrong all of the time anyway. I mean, Denzell did not win for "Malcolm X", and how could there have been an easier choice?

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