The Oscars (and other awards)

Dracula

Last night's Oscars were the lowest rated in 7 years. The last time the Oscars had ratings this low was when people were pissed off because The Dark Knight and Wall-E didn't get Best Picture nominations. And we all remember what happened after that backlash. Expect some changes next year.

Nah. We'll probably see the first Marvel movie get nominated for Best Picture.

Ant Man. Clearly.

I mostly agree, almost all of the problems with his hosting clearly should be laid at the feet of his writers, though to be fair if he had been a comedian he could have picked up the slack for them.

Weird, I just watched Birdman a couple of days ago and to be honest it kind of went down a bit in my estimation.  Probably would have dropped a couple of slots in my top ten.  Boyhood just seems better and better the more I think about it.

A lot of people would argue in favor of the Hugh Jackman year, but a lot of the success of that one had more to do with the producers than the host.

Was Nightcrawler really that popular? People are namedropping it like it was a populist choice but in spite of its wide release but it didn't really make that much money.  Six of the eight BP nominees made more money at the box office.

The voters don't give a fuck.  They try to corral them in certain directions with rule changes but it doesn't really matter, they still like what they like and that isn't changing.  

Sean Penn is either an asshole or an idiot, maybe even both.

I love it when some fucking celebrity held on some pedestal of humanitarian greatness is revealed to be just a normal person who says dumb shit sometimes, too.

What did he do?

Although what Penn said was pretty crude and what's worse not very funny, people are getting their panties in a twist over a ton of stuff with the show. People are mad that NPH pointed out Octavia Spencer for his ballot bit and say that he compared her to 'the help.' People think the joke that was made about 'the last Annie remake' was also racist. NPH's joke about balls pertaining to that woman's dress was 'shameful.' The thing is that all of these are non-issues. Everyone knows that there was nothing racist about what NPH did (unless you honestly think he was sitting in the back thinking 'how am I going to stick it to those blacks?'). There are 10,000 other things in the world that are more important. Unfortunately that's the age of the internet. It's the society we've created in that people complain about something, anything and we respond to it regardless of how ridiculous it is. Now people complain about anything that comes their way because it gives them a platform and makes them feel that they're on a higher moral plane. We have to stop because all it does is take the focus from the real issues that are worth our attention, not whether or not a joke could be somehow, some way twisted and misconstrued as something that could possibly be interpreted as racist.

/soapbox

Couldn't have said it better myself. There was so much pseudo-fuel shoveled into the mouths of social justice warriors everywhere. Still, the recipients of the awards need to stop grand-standing all their social justice issues on this platform. They are preaching to the choir, and the Awards are neither the time nor the place to let your heart bleed for millions of viewers who just want to watch film get awards.

I also can't wait until Oprah just goes away. Meryl Streep, too.

Doomsday, if you reddit, you should subscribe to /r/tumblrinaction. Lots of pseudo-rage there.

I know I'm a page late, but did you guys all forget "On the Waterfront"!?

Top 10
1. The Godfather
2. Lawrence of Arabia
3. The Godfather Part II
4. Casablanca
5. On the Waterfront
6. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
7. The Apartment
8. The Bridge on the River Kwai
9. Annie Hall
10. 12 Years a Slave

This is kind off the top of my head, I want to make a definitive list of all 87 at some point, but it's so tough. I could've easily placed "All About Eve", "Amadeus", "Birdman", "Patton", "The French Connection", "Unforgiven", "The Silence of the Lambs", and "Schindler's List" on here too and the list would've been just as good. So tough! Dracula, didn't you rank these amongst all of us a few years ago and we have an averaged rankings of the Best Picture winners? That was really cool.

Now this is not tough, the biggest poops of them all from Worst to Least Worst.

1. The Greatest Show on Earth
2. The Broadway Melody of 1929
3. Cimarron
4. Cavalcade
5. Gigi
6. Around the World in 80 Days
7. Grand Hotel
8. Oliver! (Dumbest use of punctuation for a film title, ever)
9. An American in Paris
10. The Great Ziegfeld

Moral of the story: Beware the '30s! Worst decade by far!

Doomsday Dracula SnoBorderZero Justin PG Cooper

"Indie" Wire forgot what indie means.

blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/analyze-this-why-birdman-beat-boyhood-more-2015-oscar-fallout-20150224



LOL. What? All the Best Picture nominees were made or distributed by major studios. Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel were made by Fox. Boyhood was made by IFC, a big cable company. American Sniper was made by Warner Bros. The Imitation Game was distributed by The Weinstein Company. The Theory of Everything was distributed by Universal. Selma was produced by Oprah and Brad Pitt and distributed by Paramount. Whiplash was distributed by Sony. And all these studios spent MILLIONS in campaigns.

The reason why the Oscars have become so ridiculous in recent years is because they're advertisments for smaller movies. In the old days, when tickets didn't cost $12 and there was no Internet and video games were "for kids", smaller movies actually made money. The Godfather was a box office sensation. Rain Man was a box office sensation. Forrest Gump was a box office sensation. In the old days, making money wasn't exclusive to blockbusters like Star Wars and Batman. So effort was made to actually honor good movies. And yes, I know, the Academy Awards have always made blunders. But that's for other reasons. The Oscars are Hollywood people giving awards to themselves. It's the equivalent of a high school election. If you're George Clooney, you're gonna win two Oscars. If you're Paul Giamatti, no one is gonna give a shit. That's just the way it is. The point is that the Academy isn't being generous to "indie" movies. None of these movies are indies. They're part of a corporation and they need to make money somehow. If winning an Oscar is gonna make people click "rent" on their iPhone, then so be it. Just to be clear.