Ahh yes…movies that make a lot of money, but aren’t always seen as a “great” movie tend to win awards. It is not even a question anymore. Don’t get me wrong here…I am not saying that Avatar is a terrible movie or anything, but is it really deserving of some of the awards it won at the Golden Globes? Are these awards giving awards based on box office, or are they for the movie itself?

Avatar picked up two of the biggest Golden Globes last night. Best director for Cameron Crowe, as well as the most prestigious of them all, Best Movie Drama. That will get rid of blackhead pretty quickly.

Cameron won the same Golden Globe statuettes — and swept the Academy Awards — with his last feature film, 1997’s “Titanic,” whose worldwide gross of $1.85 billion could soon be eclipsed by “Avatar,” which has sold more than $1.6 billion in tickets around the world and shows scarce signs of slowing.

Cameron spent nearly five years making “Avatar,” employing a new filming system (that married human performances and computer-generated imagery) and more than a thousand visual effects artists to craft a distant moon inhabited by 10-foot-tall azure aliens. Cameron thanked the people who worked endless hours on “Avatar” for creating “every blade of grass and every creature in it” and producer Jon Landau singled out 20th Century Fox for “believing in blue people.”

With its box-office thrust and Golden Globes, “Avatar” heads into the final week of Oscar balloting (nomination votes are due Saturday) with more momentum than any of last year’s awards-jostling releases.

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