Hey!! Congratulations, if you're reading this, you have managed for keep yourself alive, here you have this little ugly gold statue to put in your bathroom or use as a back scratcher, we don't care, we're just giving you this so our companies on Hollywood remember your name whenever they need to make a saga of movies or something like that, since that you can keep yourself alive. We should have given you this before for that one weekend that you make an excellent work, but, uh, who cares, you have it now, be happy little slave.
After that small introduction, yeah, that's what I think about the Oscars, and yeah, maybe I should inform myself a bit more, and yeah, some movies actually got what they deserve in some years, and no, I'm not the Patrick Bateman that instead of being obsessed with Phil Collins is obsessed with movies... that guy died a few years ago probably. I'm simply a guy that doesn't likes the Oscars and doesn't know much about them, but I prefer to not consume them.. same with coke.
What our dear Wikipedia thinks about it:
The Academy Awards, commonly and now officially known as the Oscars,are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry. They are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences located in Beverly Hills, California, United States, in recognition of excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
Rating: Historically, the telecast's viewership is higher when box-office hits are favored to win the Best Picture award. More than 57.25 million viewers tuned to the telecast for the 70th Academy Awards in 1998, the year of Titanic, which generated a box office haul during its initial 1997–98 run of US$600.8 million in the US, a box office record that would remain unsurpassed for years. The 76th Academy Awards ceremony, in which The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (pre-telecast box office earnings of US$368 million) received 11 Awards including Best Picture, drew 43.56 million viewers. The most watched ceremony based on Nielsen ratings to date, however, was the 42nd Academy Awards (Best Picture Midnight Cowboy) which drew a 43.4% household rating on April 7, 1970.Hoping to reinvigorate the pre-show and ratings, the 2023 Oscars organizers hired members of the Met Gala creative team By contrast, ceremonies honoring films that have not performed well at the box office tend to show weaker ratings, despite how much critical acclaim those films have received. The 78th Academy Awards which awarded low-budget independent film Crash (with a pre-Oscar gross of US$53.4 million) generated an audience of 38.64 million with a household rating of 22.91%. In 2008, the 80th Academy Awards telecast was watched by 31.76 million viewers on average with an 18.66% household rating, the lowest-rated and least-watched ceremony at the time, in spite of celebrating 80 years of the Academy Awards. The Best Picture winner of that particular ceremony was another independent film (No Country for Old Men).
Votes: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), a professional honorary organization, maintains a voting membership of 9,487 as of 2022. Academy membership is divided into different branches, with each representing a different discipline in film production. As of 2022, actors constitute the largest bloc, numbering 1,359 (14.1% of the voting body). Votes have been certified by the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (and its predecessor Price Waterhouse) since the 7th Academy Awards in 1935. In May 2011, the Academy sent a letter advising its 6,000 or so voting members that an online system for Oscar voting would be implemented in 2013, replacing mailed paper ballots. All AMPAS members must be invited to join by the Board of Governors, on behalf of Academy Branch Executive Committees. Membership eligibility may be achieved by a competitive nomination, or an existing member may submit a name, based on other significant contributions to the field of motion pictures. New membership proposals are considered annually. The Academy does not publicly disclose its membership, although as recently as 2007 press releases have announced the names of those who have been invited to join.
Good, now that you have that basic stuff in mind, we can start with the first thing: The Oscars are a TV show, yeah with great actors and stuff, like fancy clothes and that kind of things, but look at that description, it is a TV show.
One where they invite known and unknown actors for appreciate their work and and give them some popularity. But most of the time, in most of the cases, the ones that win ar ethe most watched movies or the movies that the public know better because that's how they keep a bit audience. The amateur great actors and producers won't probably win the first time that they're invited to these awards, either the second, the third... some will only win their oscar once they're too old unless that they had a quite big community of fans or at least a small group that can help to the rating. We also have to think about what movies talk about, a example that I enjoy about this whole topic is where Rocky and Raging bull where both nominated, but Rocky won, Stallone's acting won over Robert De Niro, you know why? Because one is about a poor guy that makes box for make himself a future following the American Dream, and the other one is Robert De Niro being a violent and obsessed fighter. Some of these details depend of the time, because they will always try to make the mayor quantity of public like the choice, even if It's not totally fair. This is a TV show, that mostly only gives publicity to some actors, which is good, but ends up giving some prizes that are not totally deserved or ends up forgetting the real point of all of this, search who make the most interesting effort at telling a story, and also, how important that story can be, even if It's not the most family friendly thing.
And also, can this guys give awards to things that are not about the holocaust!?! I mean, did anyone see Argentina 1985!?! C'mon, we know germans were wrong, change the topic...
I know that the capitalism that participates in the Oscars are quite a good thing to get known and also helps a lot, but it is the same thing that ruins cinema, the money, the viewers, all that stuff can ruin some movies that are actually great... Not to mention that once that an actor wins an oscar, some of them get popular, get inside hollywood and forget about their truly spirit and make random and bad movies, getting the same role forever with different names, or getting into make dumb and fucking stupid comedy movies when they deserve something fucking better, ROBERT DE NIRO FOR GOD SAKE STOP MAKING DUMB STUFF, AL PACINO DON'T FUCKING DARE TO WORK WITH ADAM SANDLER AGAIN FOR FUCK SAKE...
You know what? The Oscars sometimes simply ruin things and some other times only work s a publicity stuff, that's what I think about it.
I'm leaving. I've assessed the situation, and I'm going.
Thanks.
bye >:(
Report Blog Entry
Comments
Displaying 0 of 0 comments ( View all | Add Comment )