While our generally positive review of the film Gravity (albeit with reservations about technical accuracy) tipped its star, Sandra Bullock, for an Oscar (Academy Award) for her performance in the space jeopardy movie, in the end, the deservedly-nominated Bullock lost out to Kate Blanchett in the Oscars’ Best Actress category. Similarly, the Gravity movie also missed out on the Oscar for Best Picture with 12 Years a Slave winning that award.
Nevertheless, the well-regarded Gravity did win the most Oscars this year (seven in all), with the Best Director award going to Gravity’s Alfonso Cuarón. Its six other Oscars were all in the main technical categories including best visual effects (as we predicted) as well as best sound editing, best sound mixing, best cinematography, best film editing, best original score. So it is Hyperbola’s congratulations to all those winners.
Perhaps more importantly, Gravity has been reported (by the Sunday Times) to have become a driver for NASA and other space agencies to revise, via the International Academy of Astronautics, their plans to coordinate any space rescue attempts in the event of stranded or imperilled astronauts and space tourists. If any lives are saved as a result then this surely will be this film’s greatest achievement.
