Title: 10 NOMINATIONS
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Title: 10 NOMINATIONS
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Title: 10 NOMINATIONS
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I find the Oscar’s worthless anyway. All it is a way to get bragging rights and sell more DVD’s when it’s released. Too many people see the term “Oscar-Nomiated” on the DVD box and think “Ooh, this must be good because it was nominated for an Oscar”. If they really wanted to give value to the movies in the categories they would let the people vote. Not a bunch of stuck up old people. I say let’s put Best Picture to a vote by the people. I know that there would probably be problems with instituting a system to make it work though. Just an idea to toss out there.
As much as I think the Academy is up their own ass on the 10 nominations racket, I don’t think it’s a good idea to let America vote for the winner, either. If you do that, you have the People’s Choice Awards. Or worse… The MTV Movie Awards. Twilight over The Dark Knight? Blech.
10 nominations means… double the ad buys in the trade papers! *facepalm*
Why couldn’t they just up it to 7??? Does it have to be an even number or an increment of 5?
This is one of the worst decisions the Academy has ever made. I generally don’t let the fact that it’s nominated force me to see the movie, but all the cretins who might have seen the “retarded monkey” of the nomination pool in theaters will somehow think they’re film experts.
I’ve never been much for following American pop culture and frankly all the award ceremonies confuse me. There are the Grammy’s, the Oscars, the Academy awards, the Golden Globe awards, and all sorts of international award ceremonies. It’s hard to take any of them seriously at this point
I realize that this is probably just a big money gimmick, but to me it just feels like the Academy is trying to appease all the people who felt that The Dark Knight or WALL-E should have been nominated for Best Picture. I don’t see this as the Academy expanding their horizons, it’s just them trying to avoid criticism. Just because they are expanding the nominations does not mean that the voters will alter their perceptions of certain films. Even this past year, they could have included The Dark Knight and WALL-E, but I sincerely doubt the results would have been any different. The term Oscar Bait exists for a reason.
Yea, I guess I didn’t think about that with the people voting. And now that I am running it through my head, I can’t think of a good way to do it at all with people voting.
I don’t watch the awards shows ever, and can’t get into them. It seems too full of politics versus actual merit that some things get awarded while others are stuck being nominated or getting skipped over completely.
I’d think that if anything, the actors and actresses categories could be broadened as it always feels like they cut out a lot of good things. I like the idea of 7 or so instead of an increment of 5 (despite my ocd). 5 seems slightly small but 10 makes me think they’d be nominating shit just to fill up all of the nominations.
i usually avoid long blog entries like swine flu. but this was an interesting topic and a great read.
i really have nothing to contribute cuz you pretty much summed up everything already.
it is a big scheme but im still curious to see if there will be a solid list of movies or just a bunch more movies no one has heard/seen.
Yep yep yep totally agree. There is still going to be one winner, five extra nominations is just a big waste of time, money and space.
I actually like the Oscars. I mean, I mainly tune in when some film I’ve liked has a shot at winning something but I don’t see any harm in it. I’m known as “the movie critic” in my circle of friends so i guess it just comes with the territory that I watch awards shows and the like. I’m not jaded like the rest of you. 😛
Hey, I like the Oscars, too. That’s the reason for the rant! I think they’ve gone too far.
I realize that the producers of the Oscars have a challenge when it comes to ratings, but innovation at the sake of tradition is not the answer.
I agree certain categories need to go. And there are a number of money driven reasons for this switch up ( described here in detail http://www.newsy.com/videos/oscars_and_then_there_were_ten). Then again if a movie like last year’s grossly underrated In Bruges can get the kind of audience it deserves then I am all about the change. I think a bigger category will increase the likelihood of us seeing sincere movie choices that reflect genuine taste.