Great ideas. Also, stop having hosts and presenters make stupid, insulting, demeaning, and sexual jokes. And ban political statements. Make it family friendly again. I haven't watched the Oscars in many years.
With the exception of the last couple, I feel like these largely convince studios not to try harder. That's the problem in a nutshell, really: great movies still come out, but they're almost always independent. Studios are not holding up their end of the bargain.
A lot of the resources allocated to the creative side of films have vanished, moved strictly to the marketing and promotional side. That allows big movies to crowd and conquer the marketplace and leave little room for something like "Nickel Boys". Yes, I think pretty much all marketing people in Hollywood need to look for new jobs, but specifically the marketing people for the smaller studios. But those guys are fighting goliaths, studios who will churn out garbage and have no reservations about slapping it in 4000 theaters and sucking the air out of the industry. It should have been a wake up call during COVID when Hollywood released a bunch of movies during Christmas, and audiences only went to see ONE of them -- Spider-Man Part 8, or whatever.
Since it's the appetite of the studios and not the audiences, if you're gonna do two Best Picture categories, do Best Picture and Best Franchise Picture. Rub it in their faces that they're obsessed with IP of a declining quality.
I don’t think changing the rules matters if the underlying biases, perceptions, and in-group signaling runs the show.
The voting members of the Academy don’t have to choose art snob pieces nobody watched but they make that choice.
My big change would be to have to prove somehow that you watched the movies that were nominated in a category - all of them - before voting. No more situations of Weinstein types just buying awards & people voting on themes and vibes one. “What? You didn’t see it in theaters during the actual run? Sorry, you can’t nominate it or vote for it.”
Yeah, not literally. They still end up choosing largely the same oscar-poop films though (based on my unscientific, haven’t-compared-RT-scores-to-the-Oscars-at-all opinion)
Great ideas. Also, stop having hosts and presenters make stupid, insulting, demeaning, and sexual jokes. And ban political statements. Make it family friendly again. I haven't watched the Oscars in many years.
With the exception of the last couple, I feel like these largely convince studios not to try harder. That's the problem in a nutshell, really: great movies still come out, but they're almost always independent. Studios are not holding up their end of the bargain.
A lot of the resources allocated to the creative side of films have vanished, moved strictly to the marketing and promotional side. That allows big movies to crowd and conquer the marketplace and leave little room for something like "Nickel Boys". Yes, I think pretty much all marketing people in Hollywood need to look for new jobs, but specifically the marketing people for the smaller studios. But those guys are fighting goliaths, studios who will churn out garbage and have no reservations about slapping it in 4000 theaters and sucking the air out of the industry. It should have been a wake up call during COVID when Hollywood released a bunch of movies during Christmas, and audiences only went to see ONE of them -- Spider-Man Part 8, or whatever.
Since it's the appetite of the studios and not the audiences, if you're gonna do two Best Picture categories, do Best Picture and Best Franchise Picture. Rub it in their faces that they're obsessed with IP of a declining quality.
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Studios are downstream of audience interest.
I don’t think changing the rules matters if the underlying biases, perceptions, and in-group signaling runs the show.
The voting members of the Academy don’t have to choose art snob pieces nobody watched but they make that choice.
My big change would be to have to prove somehow that you watched the movies that were nominated in a category - all of them - before voting. No more situations of Weinstein types just buying awards & people voting on themes and vibes one. “What? You didn’t see it in theaters during the actual run? Sorry, you can’t nominate it or vote for it.”
Not having access to free screenings or at home screeners would piss off a lot of members. I like it!
The Oscars, AKA Rotten Tomatoes If It Was Only Critics Scores.
Not at all. The Oscars are determined by the cast and crew, no critics involved.
Yeah, not literally. They still end up choosing largely the same oscar-poop films though (based on my unscientific, haven’t-compared-RT-scores-to-the-Oscars-at-all opinion)