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

[Barnack]

1 minute ago, WittyUsername said:

If Black Panther gets nominated for Best Picture, that alone should help the Oscars see a noticeable spike in viewership compared to this year. It would most likely annoy a number of film snobs

Maybe it would need to be nominated across the board to be perceived as a contender (at least director) to have a significant effect.

 

And the awards shows since the last Academy award had such a drop (the Oscar was one of the show with the smallest drop), the general trend down is so strong that chance are good the the spike in viewership could be just not dropping too much or a small raise being a big "win".

[WittyUsername]

6 minutes ago, Barnack said:

Maybe it would need to be nominated across the board to be perceived as a contender (at least director) to have a significant effect.

 

And the awards shows since the last Academy award had such a drop (the Oscar was one of the show with the smallest drop), the general trend down is so strong that chance are good the the spike in viewership could be just not dropping too much or a small raise being a big "win".

I’m not saying the Oscars would see fantastic numbers, but at the very least, people might feel like they’d have an actual reason to tune in. I suppose they could also throw in some Best Director and Best Supporting actor (Michael B. Jordan) nods as well, if they really want to give the impression that Black Panther has a chance of winning something big. 

Edited September 9, 2018 by WittyUsername

[Hunch]

They need to stream it live over the internet. Air ads in between the commercial breaks like usual. The VMAs did it this year.

 

 No one under 30 has cable anymore, they're going to die long term if they don't move to online streaming.

[Barnack]

10 minutes ago, Hunch said:

They need to stream it live over the internet. Air ads in between the commercial breaks like usual. The VMAs did it this year.

 

 No one under 30 has cable anymore, they're going to die long term if they don't move to online streaming.

The show is on TV not cable too.

 

Even CAble TV is extremelly common for the under 30 in the US:

 

https://www.statista.com/statistics/740115/frequency-watching-cable-tv-by-age/

 

In 2017, the 18-24 American Demo was still watching 12 hours of traditional tv a week in average, it dropped by a huge 50% since 2012, but it started from such an extremely high numbers, American and TVs was quite the crazy affair.

 

Disney streaming could be nice for the show, but how about their how biggest business, traditional TV ? Helping people leaving it is making a big competition to themselve, they need to do it with a nice high price solutions.