This year's live Oscars broadcast will skip the awards for Best Editing and Best Cinematography.
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I'm not sure how important or creative something is determines whether it's a technical award or not. Obviously all categories are insanely creative and very important to a movie, but some are considered technical while others are not.
You can disagree what is and isn't, but to me a technical award is everything that takes place "behind" the camera or after filming.
Again, that's not talking about the importance to the film, as obviously editing and cinematography are incredibly essential. But I digress.
You can disagree what is and isn't, but to me a technical award is everything that takes place "behind" the camera or after filming.
Again, that's not talking about the importance to the film, as obviously editing and cinematography are incredibly essential. But I digress.
Academy proves once again what utter trash the oscars are.
What about before filming? Is writing also technical? Because editing is very closely related to writing and your distinction feels terribly arbitrary. Also don’t really know what “behind” and “in front” of the camera means. Are you saying only acting doesn’t fit in the “technical award” category?
That being said, given its history, the academy in their ignorance almost always looked at these arts as technical. But the fact that the academy could not understand the role of editing or cinematography without being as obvious as possible, either by having 1000 cuts per minute or by looking “very very pretty” or “wow, the camera never cuts”, doesn’t mean cinematography and editing should be considered more technically focused than all the others.
What about before filming? Is writing also technical? Because editing is very closely related to writing and your distinction feels terribly arbitrary. Also don’t really know what “behind” and “in front” of the camera means. Are you saying only acting doesn’t fit in the “technical award” category?
That being said, given its history, the academy in their ignorance almost always looked at these arts as technical. But the fact that the academy could not understand the role of editing or cinematography without being as obvious as possible, either by having 1000 cuts per minute or by looking “very very pretty” or “wow, the camera never cuts”, doesn’t mean cinematography and editing should be considered more technically focused than all the others.
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Scorsese, Tarantino, Other Filmmakers Call Academy's Oscar Plan "An Insult"
Scorsese, Tarantino, Other Filmmakers Call Academy's Oscar Plan "An Insult"
Cutting the lifetime achievement award from the live show a few years ago was also a huge mistake. That was one of the best bits every year. Cutting cinematography would be equally dumb.
Cinematography is up there with direction for me and is one of the few awards I like to watch. I agree it's insulting to remove that, especially if they keep filler like the annual "This Year the Oscars Celebrates X" montage and insisting on having live performances for all (often dreadful) nominated songs. The best musical performance they had in recent memory was when they got Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman to perform a medley of the nominated scores the year Crouching Tiger and Gladiator were nominated. If they did that every year, I would definitely be watching.
Cinematography is up there with direction for me and is one of the few awards I like to watch. I agree it's insulting to remove that, especially if they keep filler like the annual "This Year the Oscars Celebrates X" montage and insisting on having live performances for all (often dreadful) nominated songs. The best musical performance they had in recent memory was when they got Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman to perform a medley of the nominated scores the year Crouching Tiger and Gladiator were nominated. If they did that every year, I would definitely be watching.
I’m happy prominent filmmakers are at least handing them their ass over this decision. If the plan is to swap out which categories get cut each year, then surely some year we’ll see best actor and actress omitted from broadcast, right?
Of course not. It’s just like how technical award recepients get 20 secs to make a speech while DiCaprio and Oldman get all the time in the world.
Of course not. It’s just like how technical award recepients get 20 secs to make a speech while DiCaprio and Oldman get all the time in the world.
AMPAS finally relents and will now air all awards live on the broadcast.
What a tremendous shitshow this year has been for the Oscars.
What a tremendous shitshow this year has been for the Oscars.
