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Originally Posted by Geoff D
I've always seen ROTK's Oscar haul as more of a catch-all for the entire trilogy, even though the first two got several awards of their own. Calling it a sympathy vote is definitely the wrong phrasing but that's kinda how I look at it, like what the cap'n said about the Academy basically saying "you did good kid, real good, but it's never gonna be as good as this again, see?".
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Fellowship should have won in 2001. Mystic River should have won in 2003 (especially for screenwriting), but that's what happens when you give out awards based on "who is due" rather than the actual achievements.