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

[The Futurist]

It s so tiring to be right, exhausting even.

Edited August 14, 2018 by The Futurist

[CoolioD1]

1 minute ago, The Futurist said:

It s so tiring to be right, exhausting even.

ah that must be why you refrain from being right so often.

[expensiveho]

One of the rules should be getting at least another nomination.

 

That way you'd see studios campaign hard for the tech categories (and maybe even have them in mind when greenlighting them, aka better budget)

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

It's not happening this year:

 

 

 

[grim22]

 

[gadd]

It was stupid to announce the category without providing any clarity on the rules for eligibility, especially when the title is so ambiguous. Ironically this year would've been a golden opportunity to try it out if they'd had any idea what they were doing with it.

[DMan7]

This year? Don't they mean next year as the Awards has already been done for this year?

[filmlover]

lmao.

[gadd]

1 minute ago, DMan7 said:

This year? Don't they mean next year as the Awards has already been done for this year?

Yes, they're talking about the 2019 ceremony.

[Barnack]

That said they achieved to announce this:

To honor all 24 award categories, six to eight categories will be presented live, in the Dolby Theatre, during commercial breaks. The winning moments will then be edited and aired later in the broadcast. Selected categories will be rotated each year. The Academy will collaborate with the show producer(s) to select these categories.

 

Without 33% of the noise if would have made if it was not in the announcement they cancel best popular movie.

 

 

Genius 4D chess.

Edited September 6, 2018 by Barnack

[filmlover]

1 minute ago, Barnack said:

That said they achieved to announce this:

To honor all 24 award categories, six to eight categories will be presented live, in the Dolby Theatre, during commercial breaks. The winning moments will then be edited and aired later in the broadcast. Selected categories will be rotated each year. The Academy will collaborate with the show producer(s) to select these categories.

 

Without 33% of the noise if would have made if it was not in the announcement they cancel best popular movie.

 

These people clearly have no fucking idea what they're doing.

[DMan7]

Just throw a list of movies in a container and shuffle it and pick one. Simple!

[gadd]

Instead of making it a competitive category, it could just be an honorary award for a film that achieved a certain level of box-office success. At least that wouldn't negate the success of the actual Best Picture nominees while genuinely recognising a film that was popular with the masses.

[Morieris]

This category would be the new joke category to members. Just pick one, or don't even bother voting.

 

Currently, that spot is occupied by Best Animated Feature 

[Spidey Freak]

[Valonqar]

So they cancelled that Blockbuster category, correct? "time to study" = "delayed indefinitely"

Edited September 6, 2018 by Valonqar

[DMan7]

Well at least Avengers 4 might get the win in 2020. 😕

[filmlover]

I feel like we're never going to hear about this "new category" ever again. Not that it wasn't a dumb idea in the first place.

Edited September 6, 2018 by filmlover

[SLAM!]

12 minutes ago, Barnack said:

That said they achieved to announce this:

To honor all 24 award categories, six to eight categories will be presented live, in the Dolby Theatre, during commercial breaks. The winning moments will then be edited and aired later in the broadcast. Selected categories will be rotated each year. The Academy will collaborate with the show producer(s) to select these categories.

 

Without 33% of the noise if would have made if it was not in the announcement they cancel best popular movie.

 

 

Genius 4D chess.

 

On the bright side, they are, at the very least, still being broadcast. 

[75Live]

Just now, Slambros said:

 

On the bright side, they are, at the very least, still being broadcast. 

 

not sure the Oscars being broadcast is a good thing any more actually