{"id":14815,"date":"2003-06-09T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-09T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/09\/gollum-wins\/"},"modified":"2003-06-09T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-09T11:33:00","slug":"gollum-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/09\/gollum-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Gollum Wins!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/staticnews\/1054890864.html\" title=\"Gollum at MTV Movie Awards\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Gollum at MTV Movie Awards\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/gollum_mtv.jpg\" \/><\/a>Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in <i>The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers<\/i> (and the upcoming <i>Return of the King<\/i>), won the award for &ldquo;Best Virtual Performance&rdquo; in this year&rsquo;s MTV Movie Awards.  Although I think that his exclusion from the Oscar nominees was a travesty, I&rsquo;m very glad that his performance was finally recognized, even if it was only at the MTV awards.  Check out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/staticnews\/1054890864.html\" title=\"Gollum at MTV Movie Awards\" target=\"_blank\">video of his acceptance speech<\/a> (or more likely at one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/06\/08\/1449202&amp;mode=thread&amp;tid=133&amp;tid=186&amp;tid=188&amp;tid=199&amp;tid=97\" target=\"_blank\">mirrors listed in the <i>Slashdot<\/i> story<\/a>), which is one of the funniest I&rsquo;ve seen in a long time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-200402019?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (and the upcoming Return of the King), won the award for &ldquo;Best Virtual Performance&rdquo; in this year&rsquo;s MTV Movie Awards. Although I think that his exclusion from the Oscar nominees was a travesty, I&rsquo;m very glad that his performance was finally &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/09\/gollum-wins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gollum Wins!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}