Eric Roberts defends 2009 Dark Knight snub
![Not all that glitters is gold—or deserves gold, as the case may be. Eric Roberts recently defended the Academy’s decision three years ago to not reward The Dark Knight with a Best Picture award. After the shutout of Nolan’s 2008 film at the Academy Awards, fans of the franchise were upset at what they perceived as an […]](http://darkknight.tribute.ca/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ericroberts.jpg "Eric Roberts defends 2009 Dark Knight snub - The Dark Knight")
Not all that glitters is gold—or deserves gold, as the case may be. Eric Roberts recently defended the Academy’s decision three years ago to not reward The Dark Knight with a Best Picture award. After the shutout of Nolan’s 2008 film at the Academy Awards, fans of the franchise were upset at what they perceived as an unfair bias the Academy has against superhero movies. In an editorial from the guardian.co.uk from that time, writer Ben Child argued that the Academy had forgotten the idea that “a film can be both critically and commercially successful.”
However, actor Eric Roberts, who played Maroni in the film, recently spoke to the Detroit Free Press about why the Academy was right to not name The Dark Knight as the winner. “What do you get out of a Batman movie? You get entertainment, that’s true. But what do you get to take home with your heart or your mind? It’s questionable for me. When a movie costs that much, so many movies don’t get made that can educate, enlighten, move, comfort.” Roberts said. “Batman didn’t do any of those things that I named for me, anyway, even though I enjoyed watching it.” However, Roberts went on to praise the director. “[Christopher Nolan] is a real winner and he knows what he wants every second of every day.”
