Anybody else does not care for the Oscars but likes that it exists?

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Re: Anybody else does not care for the Oscars but likes that it exists

I have no problem with the Oscars, as such. No movie I like will be nominated, so I can just let it go.

That being said, the Oscar *ceremonies* are rather amusing, if only because the announcing is so obviously forced and fake. What would they do if their TelePrompTers go on the fritz?

 

[Hatshepsut]

Re: Anybody else does not care for the Oscars but likes that it exists

The Oscars coming on - even if I don't watch - is a nice rare piece of stability in a rapidly changing life and world...

I don't follow the Oscars either, yet they are part of America's liturgical cycle, alongside the Super Bowl. It's fashionable to think of America, especially in its liberal aspect, as post-religious, beyond the pomp and superstition of times past. But we're really not. It's a narcissistic fest of top studio craftspersons voting each other as best at this or that, yet it may well have something to do with the country's psychological stability.

If the Oscars were abruptly shut down, I wouldn't be surprised if a major financial panic broke out immediately in consequence.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Re: Anybody else does not care for the Oscars but likes that it exists

If the Oscars were abruptly shut down, I wouldn't be surprised if a major financial panic broke out immediately in consequence.

It would be an infinitesimal blip on the proverbial radar.

 

[the G-man]

Re: Anybody else does not care for the Oscars but likes that it exists

Acadamy Award on the box is more of a negative for me because the majority of best picture winners are in my view garbage. It didn't use to be that way. Look up best picture winners before the 1970s and most of them were movies that were popular with both critics and movie-goers. Not coincidentally the 70s was also the beginning of the blockbuster and for whatever reason acadamy voters thumb their noses at those type of movies. Why else would a piece of boring garbage like Annie Hall get best picture over Star Wars, a film that revolutionized the entire industry?

I wouldn't necessarily say that all the best picture winners are "garbage." Many have been quite good. And looking at the winners for the past 40 years, it really wasn't until the late 90s (and Shakespeare in Love) that the disconnect between popular and "award winning" became so pronounced.

Granted, a lot of blockbusters aren't really that "good." However, at the same time, it seems as if sometimes the award is now less about what's enjoyable and more about what the academy thinks we "should" enjoy.

From what I see, you have to go back all the way to 2006, and "the Departed" to find a true blockbuster that won the award.