This year's live Oscars broadcast will skip the awards for Best Editing and Best Cinematography.
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The hilarious / saddest part is, this isn't a step in the right direction even if your goal is "we have to save the award ceremony as a commercial product".
The INEVITABLE end game, the only real solution, is separating the Oscar broadcast from linear TV. The sooner they do this, the better, the more interest they can hope to attract from film fans around the world, of all ages.
Linear TV will be the death of the Oscars, unless they cut away cleanly. Bringing the awards online, either through a streaming service, or preferrably, an open, non-subscription based platform, through the web, social media, and so on, will open up the awards to audience groups who can't even see the awards if they want to today.
You can present it in many ways. A full live show, sure, but also piecemeal, spread through many channels. The interest in film is not on the wane, but the interest in long linear TV broadcasts with commercial breaks IS. Get the show out where the film fans consume and interact content.
The INEVITABLE end game, the only real solution, is separating the Oscar broadcast from linear TV. The sooner they do this, the better, the more interest they can hope to attract from film fans around the world, of all ages.
Linear TV will be the death of the Oscars, unless they cut away cleanly. Bringing the awards online, either through a streaming service, or preferrably, an open, non-subscription based platform, through the web, social media, and so on, will open up the awards to audience groups who can't even see the awards if they want to today.
You can present it in many ways. A full live show, sure, but also piecemeal, spread through many channels. The interest in film is not on the wane, but the interest in long linear TV broadcasts with commercial breaks IS. Get the show out where the film fans consume and interact content.
Best cinematography is genuinely one of the most important awards.
Fucking America and your obsession with advertising, I'm not sure how you get through an entire football (the proper one) game without a commercial every time the ball goes out of play.
The annoying thing is that our broadcast cuts to presenters when you're doing adverts.
Fucking America and your obsession with advertising, I'm not sure how you get through an entire football (the proper one) game without a commercial every time the ball goes out of play.
The annoying thing is that our broadcast cuts to presenters when you're doing adverts.
Commercials are maddening and the worst part is that this was definitely done to placate ABC and by extension Disney’s want for more exposure. None of the categories cut have any Disney related movie attached to them (maybe a Fox picture or two, but 🤷♂️) so they basically blew off the labor behind the movies so they could promote Captain Marvel and Chevrolets all night.
If I were Cuaron, I’d boycott. Fuck em.
If I were Cuaron, I’d boycott. Fuck em.
I usually enjoy the Oscars for the most part, despite everyone hating on it. But this is complete bullshit. Cinematography along with Best Picture and Best Director is my favorite category.
Everything about this years Oscars has been a dumpster fire. A new “most popular” category, the Kevin Hart controversy, the nominations and snubs, and now nixing two of the most important categories in filmmaking.
Everything about this years Oscars has been a dumpster fire. A new “most popular” category, the Kevin Hart controversy, the nominations and snubs, and now nixing two of the most important categories in filmmaking.
Because obviously the only parts that matter to a movie are the actors, the director, the one or two big-name celebrities/studios producing, and maybe the music if you got a big-name singer/band, Zimmer, or Junkie XL. The rest of the stuff just kinda happens on its own! It's okay, who cares about that nerd shit anyway, right? We know what you actually wanna see is Kimmel possibly make another Trump dig, and we need to give him as much time as we can!