Academy Awards adding a "Best Popular Film" category. Good or bad idea? Academy walks it back, won't be presented this year

[Blankments]

My take: This is dumb, looks horrifically bad optically with it being the year of BLACK PANTHER, and if they really wanna get more popular films nominated, how about finally adding a BEST STUNT COORDINATION category that the unions have been begging for the last six or seven years?

 

(Also, Best Voiceover/Mocap would be nice.)

 

(ALSO the cutting of awards from the telecast is silly af)

[KJsooner]

Fuck the academy. This is horse shit

[The Futurist]

Megan Ellison is very sad today.

[Hades]

A new low for Disney?. Feige really wanted that oscar huh? after 10 years of nothing...Uncle Iger is the great provider. The dude buys oscars now after buying critics, Department of Justice and movie studios...I fear what they will buy next

[RandomCat]

2 hours ago, IronJimbo said:

We need to do a 2009 redo but with this award

District 9 was robbed of best special effects!

[The Futurist]

Oscar votes should only come from people who attended 60 000$ a Year Colleges.

This strange idea that the working class people have a sense of beauty & excellence in art is preposterous.

Edited August 8, 2018 by The Futurist

[Barnack]

1 hour ago, TwoMisfits said:

what people love to see is the winner's joy, really...they aren't in it for the rattling off of random names in speeches

True that it is all about the winner joy (the live a part of their moment via empathy.... part I said), the speech being the current way to see that moment.

 

Walking up taking the trophy and leaving immediately with some bow or blowing a kiss to the crowd, would not be the same sharing of the moment I think it would be a bit too short.

 

The idea to have the names thanks in scroller was an attempt to have them write actual speech a la Mcconaughey instead of just listing name we do not know, but the failure of that to work was obvious. 

 

Edited August 9, 2018 by Barnack

[That One Girl]

Nolan's first best popular director Oscar is coming.

Edited August 8, 2018 by That One Guy

[Samarus]

2 hours ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

Inside Out or Mad Max: Fury Road in 2015 both deserved it.

I'm just talking about nominations, but true both deserved at least that and got it.

[Lordmandeep]

This shows the oscars must have been in some serious issues with broadcasters and advertisers and sponsers to resort to such levels considering how snobish and stuck up the oscars are.

 

 

I think the people who said the oscars were fine for years were proven 100 percent wrong.

Edited August 9, 2018 by Lordmandeep

[MrGlass2]

The more I think about it, the more it seems like a bad idea. What will it even be called? Not "Best Popular Film", that would imply all the other winners are not popular. Best Blockbuster? Best Film for Teenage Boys?

 

It probably won't happen.

Edited August 9, 2018 by MrGlass2

[CoolioD1]

1 minute ago, MrGlass2 said:

The more I think about it, the more it seems like a bad idea. What will it even be called? Not "Best Popular Film", that would imply all the other winners are not popular. Best Blockbuster? Best Film for Teenage Boys"?

 

It probably won't happen.

the statement from the academy spokesperson quoted in the variety article refers to it as 'Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film' so i guess... that's what it's called?

[Lordmandeep]

3 minutes ago, MrGlass2 said:

The more I think about it, the more it seems like a bad idea. What will it even be called? Not "Best Popular Film", that would imply all the other winners are not popular. Best Blockbuster? Best Film for Teenage Boys?

 

It probably won't happen.

The acamedy says blockbuster films are too good for us but we need to mention them to stay releavant.

Edited August 9, 2018 by Lordmandeep

[The Futurist]

CNN Breaking News :

 

The Nerds have won, thank God.

[Legion Again]

5 minutes ago, MrGlass2 said:

The more I think about it, the more it seems like a bad idea. What will it even be called? Not "Best Popular Film", that would imply all the other winners are not popular. Best Blockbuster? Best Film for Teenage Boys?

 

It probably won't happen.

God forbid they imply something accurate 😛 

[Barnack]

9 minutes ago, Lordmandeep said:

This shows the oscars must have been in some serious issues with broadcasters and advertisers and sponsers to resort to such levels considering how snobish and stuck up the oscars are.

 

 

I think the people who said the oscars were fine for years were proven 100 percent wrong.

Who would that be ?

 

Is this turning a rebute of someone saying no one is watching, not relevant anymore with this:

 

 

No.	Show	Viewership (in millions)	Date	Network(s)
1	Super Bowl LI	111.3	February 5, 2017	Fox
2	Packers vs. Cowboys	48.5	January 15, 2017	Fox
3	Steelers vs. Patriots	48.0	January 22, 2017	CBS
4	Donald Trump Congressional Address	47.7	February 28, 2017	VOA
5	Packers vs. Falcons	46.3	January 22, 2017	Fox
6	Giants vs. Packers	39.3	January 8, 2017	Fox
7	Steelers vs. Chiefs	37.1	January 15, 2017	NBC
8	89th Academy Awards	32.9	February 26, 2017	ABC
9	Inauguration of Donald Trump	30.6	January 20, 2017	VOA
10	Dolphins vs. Steelers	29.9	January 8, 2017	CBS

 

 

Into someone saying that, that the Oscar are 100% fine without serious any challenge ahead of them to still be worth an over 100m a year show in 2025 ? Who ever said that ?

 

13 minutes ago, Lordmandeep said:

considering how snobish and stuck up the oscars are.

Are you talking about the Oscar show / leadership here (i.e. Walt Disney corporation quite a bit) or the voters (i.e. are you basing this looking at voters result that have little to do here with what is happening)

 

[LonePirate]

Instead of adding a new award for popular film, perhaps the Academy should create a new award for these small, indie films that have dominated the Oscars for the past several years.

 

How about moving these Best Picture nominees from this past year to this new indie category:

• Call Me By Your Name
• Darkest Hour
• Phantom Thread
• The Shape of Water
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

And replace them with nominations for these films, all of which have at least a 90% score on RT:

• Coco
• Girls Trip
• The Last Jedi
• Logan
• Wonder Woman

Fewer people are watching the Oscars because fewer people have seen the films that are nominated nowadays.

 

[Morieris]

9 minutes ago, MrGlass2 said:

What will it even be called?

 

The Pleb Oscar.

[CoolioD1]

they could nominate the five highest grossing movies for best picture every year and the ratings would still be dipping cos that's just the way shit is going. they're never gonna get it back up to 40 million again probably not even 35.

[dxmatrixdt]

I doubt they will cut out the technical awards.  That is probably a good segment of the ratings right there.