Revenge of the Sith is a finalist for three Academy Awards: Makeup, Sound Editing and (of course) Visual Effects.
The People love Sith
According to starwars.com, Revenge of the Sith won two People’s Choice awards: Favorite Movie: Drama and Favorite Movie.
See the full list, and a quote from Lucas, at MTV.
Episode 3 has also earned four nominations from the Visual Effects Society.
ROTS novelization (digitally) bigger than Jesus!
According to the International Digital Publishing Forum, the Revenge of the Sith script was the best-selling eBook of 2005, beating, among others, The Da Vinci Code, Michael Crichton, and the Bible.
Happy Robanukah!
Wired’s 50 Best Robots Ever takes on both real and fictional examples. R2-D2 is #19. (via SFSignal.)
George Lucas still richer than you
Revenge of the Sith was last year’s top earner, making $380.3 million. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, War of the Worlds, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Wedding Crashers (one of these things is not like others) round out the top 5. Thus, it’s not too suprising that several Episode 3 stars are among the top draws – Christoper Lee, Ewan McGregor, and Samuel Jackson. Liam Neeson is there too – if you can’t be a Jedi, I guess voicing Jesus in lion form and smacking around Batman are good substitutes.
ROTS 12″ Kenobi previewed!
The Man. The myth. The unfortunately not all that attractive 12″ General Kenobi action figure.
His costume looks great though. Wish we could preview his boots!
He can be pre-ordered at SideShow.
Thanks to Amberlee for the find!
The year in blogs
According to Blogpulse, Revenge of the Sith was the second most blogged movie of the year. A New Hope also made it in at #24, but there are plenty of other familiar names.
Meanwhile, the Star Wars Last Supper painting we linked in May was one of the most blogged images.
Darth Vader didn’t make the ‘top people’ list, but Harry Potter did beat out President Bush, Pope John Paul II, and Britney Spears for the top spot.
Meanwhile, CJers are working on a best-of list of our own. We’ll be chat tonight (10:00pm Eastern, irc.holonet.org, #clubjade) if you’d care to join.
Kong who? Star Wars tops in Google
Sith Respect
Darth Vader is one of Time magazine’s people who mattered for 2005, the only fictional character on the list.
In other honors, Revenge of the Sith has been shortlisted as a pre-nominee for the Visual Effects Oscar.
Free Variety!
Maybe you have to be a news blogger to get excited about this kind of thing, but Hyperspace members now have access to Variety archives and subscriber content.
Meanwhile on the blogs, Paul lets us know that ROTS is up for USA Today’s “Best of 2005.”