But the film was nominated and WON the 1999 "Film Editing", "Sound Editing" and "Sound Mixing" Academy Awards! (Along with the "Visual Effects" of course).
Haha that was a hilarious comment.
The film was superlative in those areas in 1999 and deserved all four awards.
Edit:
Suppose I should relate my tale.
I saw The Matrix for the first time long after it was released on DVD, at my sister's house for a family dinner. For whatever reason I thought it was a fucking horror movie (I imagined "the matrix" to be some kind of torture device the villain put his victims through). I have no idea how I got this impression at all, but I remember arguing that we should watch something else because it would either be boring or too violent (not that I didn't want to see the violence as a young teenager, but my parents were still in "send him out of the room" mode for gory stuff). I was overruled and proceeded to spend the next 136 minutes with my jaw basically touching the floor. As the credits rolled I had no idea how I missed the movie during its theatrical run, and it certainly remains in at least my top 5 favorites to this day.
Since that night I became fairly enamored with the franchise, and immersed myself in the universe more than anything comparable, the way some people did for Star Wars or Star Trek or whatever the kids get into these days, maybe Yu-Gi-Oh. I had posters on my wall, bought one of the Sentinel replicas and a couple action figures, saw both sequels at midnight showings, and generally just consumed as much media and ancillary material as possible. If it hadn't been a subscription game I would have played the shit out of The Matrix Online, which had a rather before-its-time narrative progression for an MMO, and did some really interesting almost ARG-like stuff before its untimely demise.
A true classic, and it holds up marvelously to this day. Watching it now you can see how painfully the bog-standard action films in the decade to come would copy-paste some of its aesthetic techniques because they'd become synonymous with "cool," but nobody really ever did it better.
As an aside, if you haven't seen it, I highly recommend checking out The Animatrix. The stories, styles and quality vary wildly from short to short, but there's some really compelling (and beautiful) stuff in there from many renowed directors and animators. My favorite of the bunch, "Matriculated," is by the creator of the original Aeon Flux animations.
