Spoilers Andor season one
- Thread starter Turtletrekker
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Guess I'll stop watching.Star Wars had over 20 Emmy nominations and got nothing. NOTHING!!!
For who?
You?
'Cause, unless they stop making Star Wars because of it I don't see the difference.
Nice, sure. But I don't require the entertainment I love to win awards to prove itself.
Not surprising. As I literally just posted in the MCU thread, Robert Downey Jr believes some of the best work of his career was in the MCU and it went unrecognized because of the genre. Same thing applies here.
And only one of the eleven existing Star Wars movies has ever been nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, and the one that did didn't even win. I'm cool with things I love not being popular with the hip/"in" crowds in Hollywood.
That's my preference too.
Who cares about awards among fans? None of us are industry professionals and benefit financially from these awards.
Yeah, but it would be nice to see some recognition from the wider community once in a blue moon. I hate that our stuff is still "ghettoized". I've seen so many things in genre works that are (IMO) Oscar/Emmy worthy, it just feels like a slap in the face sometimes.
Nice, definitely. But Star Wars rarely gets the love from the creative community that it usually deserves.
So what?
As long as we appreciate it then it's good.
As long as we appreciate it then it's good.
I'm far, far, far more disgusted that Better Call Saul got 58 during its entire run and won nothing. Pure shit, that.Star Wars had over 20 Emmy nominations and got nothing. NOTHING!!!
Yeah, but it would be nice to see something people like us enjoy get some wider recognition. It might not impact us personally, but I do like to see stuff I enjoy be successful.
Or maybe cumulative goodness is not peak goodness, and therefore despite its deservedly beloved status a work has never been individually as great to deserve that particular kind of accolade?
I've made my peace long ago with the reality that the stuff I like never wins awards and is only rarely (if ever) nominated.
TOS never won a Best Dramatic Series Emmy. And I couldn't care less.
I think I only really cared when the BtVS episode "The Body" was completely ignored. It was better than 99% of the other things up for Emmys that year.
What does and does not get awards has bugger all to do with being "hip". Indeed it's quite the opposite since the majority of the people that vote on these kinds of things (especially the Oscars) are predominantly crusty old white dudes that prefer "cinema" to movies.
Why else do you think dramas, biopics, movies about Hollywood, or even better: dramatic biopics about Hollywood are always award darlings? Most of these people have never even watched a Star War, nor would they ever care to.
On the odd occasion when a popular genre production does get the nod (read: a non-technical award) it's usually because some article in the industry trades shamed them into it (see: Return of the King's Oscar sweep.) Also, just like the Olympics and legislation; awards get lobbied for, which instantly means it's subject to easy corruption.
So no, I really wouldn't take a mainstream award snub to mean anything more that it's just mainstream awards being predictably mainstream.
From what I've read, there's a LOT of deep seated resentment in a certain quarter of the Hollywood establishment over the continued popularity of Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Superheroes. Scorsese's little tantrum 5 years back is pretty indicative of this mindset, and it's only gotten worse as the "fad" refuses to die (which IMO disqualifies it as a fad since it's been a controlling force at the box office for coming up to half a century!) So yeah, don't expect a lot of votes from Academy members for genre properties until the boomers in their ranks start dying off.
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