when u nut but she keeps sucking
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Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film
What trash.
that seems... very vague and meaningless?
I'm wondering how it relates to Best Picture. Is Best Picture 'better' than Popular Film? Can a film win both? Or is Best Picture just for 'unpopular' films now? If they can win both, then shouldn't the 'popular films' already be best pictures anyway? Otherwise doesn't the award essentially mean 'film that wasnt good enough for Best Picture'?
What blockbusters? Like avengers? Major movies suck dick now. Comedies have turned into poop and fart joke spectaculars, horror is like riding in a haunted mansion ride where jumpscares are the only horror in the entire movie, and action movies like transformers or deepwater horizon give me a headache with the shakey cam nonsense that covers up shit action scenes or directing. Hollywood is dead, and they just resort to digging up corposes to milk a little cash of them.
Also I think a major reason why they stopped giving a shit is because almost the entire ceremony is hollywood sucking their own cock and showing off real blockbusters in the 60s-90s.
It sounds like a way to give awards to marvel movies without reducing the 'oscar bait' awards.
Just like the Oscars!
The group did not provide details on what movies would be eligible and when the award will first be handed out
then stop wasting my time
At one point in its history, Oscar voters routinely named blockbusters such as “Titanic” or “Gladiator” as the year’s best. That’s changed. Recent best picture victors such as “Moonlight,” “Spotlight,” and the 2018 winner “The Shape of Water” have been firmly ensconced in the arthouse world, whereas well-reviewed hit films such as “Guardians of the Galaxy” or “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” have only been recognized for their technical achievements.
Basically when some oscar-bait movie about slavery or oppression of some kind wins the award, casual moviegoers don't watch the oscars because casual moviegoers want to watch action movies and marvel movies. So if they give non-oscar bait its own category, people will be happy to watch
The oscars are boring to watch though. Best moment in 10 years was Sacha Baron Cohen dumping pancake mix on Ryan Seacrest (who was very VERY pissed) and then being whisked away by security
The Oscars are consistently better than the Grammys in their rating process. It's a good move for them to add a category like this, so that they can bolster ratings with the casual audience without just picking the best-selling movie and calling it a day. The Grammys do that, and every year they snub lesser-known masterpieces that could've really benefited from the publicity.
This is the best solution by far. Would you guys rather have had The Force Awakens win Best Picture over fucking Birdman in 2015? Now there's room for popular blockbusters without shoving more deserving films out of the way.
https://youtu.be/mhAg0COnqds
he almost looks like he's genuinely about to cry in frustration
Oscars have and always have been basically the industry jacking itself off for some time now, no surprise nobody gives a shit about them any more.
I love the guy with the flowers who just grabs the lid afterwards and pockets it.
To this day I still have no idea why people refer to a lot of films that aren't popular as "Oscar bait".
What makes them Oscar bait? Because they touch on a subject matter that AAA blockbusters don't?
Oscar bait typically has some kind of story about systemic oppression, racism sexism, etc. and a character (typically played by an A list celebrity) who overcame it. Normally a biopic like Schindler's list, 12 years a Slave or Moonlight
idk if it's the fact that they're not popular as much as it is what your typical best movie winner/nominee is one of the following
Drama
Biopic
Based on a true story
Based on a true story from wartime
Focuses on a minority group, i.e. gay people, african americans
Note this is not to say that any of these are bad things, and by and large movies like this deserve to get attention. That said, there is definitely a pattern to which movies win best picture.
true movie buffs realize this is Oscar giving The Hobbit the chance it finally deserves
It's not like there are only small artsy indie films and superhero movies. Fury Road was a high octane action movie that won 6 oscars.
At one point in its history, Oscar voters routinely named blockbusters such as “Titanic” or “Gladiator” as the year’s best. That’s changed. Recent best picture victors such as “Moonlight,” “Spotlight,” and the 2018 winner “The Shape of Water” have been firmly ensconced in the arthouse world, whereas well-reviewed hit films such as “Guardians of the Galaxy” or “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” have only been recognized for their technical achievements.
It's weird to see Gladiator and Titanic compared to Guardians and The Force Awakens. They're not blockbusters in the same way. Gladiator was a callback to to classic historical epics and Titanic could be seen as oscar bait.
i congratulate marvel for winning it every year from now on
People watch these Hollywood circlejerks?
i do because it gives me shitpost material like how dunkirk won best editing and sound over baby driver
Lilo and Stitch didn't get a best original song nomination
City of God wasn't nominated for best foreign film
It was for costume/makeup which is a very low bar to hit considering majority of films rely on CGI for that now.
The bar was
A man called Ove (what the hell is that?)
Star trek beyond (eh)
SS (also eh)
Felt like they just ran out of shit to nominate for it and threw whoever actually did makeup in the category.
there are practically zero wig/makeup/costume designers in the academy so they don't have any stakes to make good choices for that category
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxkjLQdFmRI
good video on the issue that isn't made by a moron
I bet they made this award for black panther.
they kept hyping it up last year but they would never dare to give a real oscar to some "capeshit flick" (makeup isn't a real oscar)
Is this to prevent another Leo DiCaprio situation where he got so desperate he was probably gonna murder some guy on screen for reals just to secure one.
https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/abc-oscar-changes-ratings-popular-film-1202899515/
Days after the 90th Academy Awards telecast aired in March to record-low viewership, Disney-ABC Television Group executives met with leaders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to convey a message:
You are facing irrelevance.
Just a year and a half earlier, Disney-ABC had set a long-term pact with the Academy to broadcast the Oscars through 2028 — long past the point where anyone can predict what linear-television consumption will look like. Then the ratings fell off a cliff. The 26.6 million viewers averaged by the 2018 Oscars, according to Nielsen live-plus-same day numbers, represented a 19% decline from 2017, and 39% drop from the show’s recent peak in 2014. Numbers for younger viewers were even worse. Ratings in the 18-49 demo fell 24% from 2017 and 47% from 2014. The 18-34 demo was down 29% from 2017 and 56% from 2014.
ABC has not commented on the changes. But sources at the network expressed relief Wednesday that the Academy had finally taken action. The Oscars telecast is the biggest piece of event programming for the Alphabet — the only one of the Big Four broadcasters without an NFL package, and thus lacking the boost that its competitors get from television’s most powerful driver of live viewing. Network insiders were also unmoved Wednesday by evident social-media backlash to the announcement, particularly to the addition of the popular film category, noting that changes to longstanding institutions such as the Oscars often yield complaints, and predicting that audiences would ultimately embrace the new format.
I've seen people argue that this is the Film Academy being racist and bigoted, offering a Plessy v. Ferguson agreement for Black Panther. All I see here is Disney-ABC flexing their muscle to give their marketing conglomerate awards.
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