Comments on: Oscars Might Return to Five Best Picture Nominees https://filmjunk.com/2015/03/05/oscars-might-return-to-five-best-picture-nominees/ The World's Longest-Running Movie Podcast Fri, 24 Sep 2021 06:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.33 By: Anthony https://filmjunk.com/2015/03/05/oscars-might-return-to-five-best-picture-nominees/comment-page-1/#comment-6943776 Sun, 08 Mar 2015 02:36:00 +0000 http://filmjunk.com/?p=125145#comment-6943776 Simply changing the voter demographic won’t necessarily solve the issue of people not watching every movie or only voting for their peers. The issue of bias or personal preference likely won’t change if they go for a younger voting pool. They’d likely still vote for their peers as well, or just go by personal preferences which, honestly, is really what this thing is all about. Or should be about. If the 8-10 films that are nominated every year are nominated because the voting academy feels those were the best films, and I don’t agree, then that’s just a difference of opinion. No different then when a Twilight or other Young adult movie wins best movie at the MTV movie awards. But unfortunately there’s probably a bunch of politics behind it that it isn’t as simple as “these 8-10 movies were nominated because they were our favourite 8-10 films of the last year”

]]> By: Rolf https://filmjunk.com/2015/03/05/oscars-might-return-to-five-best-picture-nominees/comment-page-1/#comment-6943768 Sat, 07 Mar 2015 17:33:00 +0000 http://filmjunk.com/?p=125145#comment-6943768 The problem is not the amount of nominees per category but the lack of surprise. If the Academy really wants to change sth. they should kick out all those old farts who certainly won’t watch every good movie. My guess is that most of them vote for their peers only anyway. Find more young folks to join the Academy. Maybe someday a movie like THE GUEST will sweep the Oscars. Would. Be. Awesome.

]]> By: Lior https://filmjunk.com/2015/03/05/oscars-might-return-to-five-best-picture-nominees/comment-page-1/#comment-6943739 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 19:20:00 +0000 http://filmjunk.com/?p=125145#comment-6943739 The way it is now is a total joke. It’s not even 10 nominees, it’s between 5-10 depending on votes, but every year there were 8 or 9 nominees. And every year there are no more than 5 films that actually have a chance, the rest is just for show. I didn’t like that change and I hope they get back to 5 nominees.

But anyway, since when is the Oscars so concerned about ratings? What’s going on? It’s an award show for movies and the people who make them, you don’t wanna watch it, don’t watch it. That stupid rating thing is the main culprit behind not letting winners speak and rudely cutting them off with music, so that there’s more time for some more jokes or songs that supposedly boost ratings.

]]> By: ECONOMYpolitica https://filmjunk.com/2015/03/05/oscars-might-return-to-five-best-picture-nominees/comment-page-1/#comment-6943735 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 16:31:00 +0000 http://filmjunk.com/?p=125145#comment-6943735 If this means The Dark Knight Rises wins best picture this year, I’m all for it!

]]> By: PlanBFromOuterSpace https://filmjunk.com/2015/03/05/oscars-might-return-to-five-best-picture-nominees/comment-page-1/#comment-6943730 Fri, 06 Mar 2015 05:10:00 +0000 http://filmjunk.com/?p=125145#comment-6943730 My problem is when they don’t have ten and there’s a movie in there that clearly doesn’t seem to belong, like “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” the one year. That makes me wonder what ones are missing, what could have filled a missing slot, more than if there were ten and that happened to be one of them. In that case, you can kind of go “Oh well, I guess they had to nominate ten”. Does that make any sense?

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