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How Do We Feel About the Academy's New "POPULAR FILM" Category?! (Patreon)

Published:
2018-08-18 01:19:03
Edited:
2018-08-18 01:19:16
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2021-04

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Thanks for your question, Kurt!!  ...and Rosa as well!

We weigh in on the Motion Picture Academy (and ABC)'s latest attempt to make the Academy Awards more appealing to the masses...  How do you guys feel??

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Q&A Popular Oscar

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Jason Dolan

I kind of love the Popular Film Oscar. I just don't like calling it Popular Oscar. I like what the Golden Globes do with Best Drama and Best Comedy, but really it should be Best Genre Film (which would help explain The Martian's win). These are the films I think would have won Best Genre: <a href="https://letterboxd.com/jdolan74/list/popular-oscar-retrospective/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://letterboxd.com/jdolan74/list/popular-oscar-retrospective/</a> Fun fact... the very FIRST OSCAR ceremony had Outstanding Picture (Popular) and Best Artistic Picture. So to that extent, this is bringing Oscar back to its roots! But yes, Popular Oscar is a dumb title. Last year it would have been Logan vs Wonder Woman vs Blade Runner 2049 vs Get Out vs Dunkirk. I think this year would be Black Panther, Avengers Infinity War, Deadpool 2, Mission Impossible Fallout and A Quiet Place (so far) - I do think quality will still play a part. JPFK will not be considered over these other 5 films. Also, they would give this award live on TV... they are talking about the Live Action Short Film, Doc Shorts, Animated Shorts, etc, being given out during the commercial breaks, and then they'd cut the acceptance speeches together into a quick 3 minute video showing us who won later in the show. By the way, you're wrong on the Best Animated Film NOT being nominated for Both Best Picture and Best Animated Feature... i.e. UP Final point--- I equate this to Best Foreign Language Film and Best Animated Film, in the same sense that it is hard to compare small indies like Shape of Water, Lady Bird, Three Billboards, Call Me By Your Name and Phantom Thread to Logan, Wonder Woman, etc. So that's why I think it's important to honor the quality of the bigger "more popular" films as well as the smaller indies. Let The Dark Knight have its day in court, but Slumdog Millionaire, too.

thereelrejects
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Oh dang.. appreciate the info, man. Thanks for enlightening us a bit, that's actually pretty fascinating about the original Oscars. Liked your picks here as well (we gotta start using Letterboxd more, I think.. 😅). Definitely see your point, though. Best Genre Film would probably be a more cogent title. I guess maybe a bit sad to think that several other categories will be cut from the broadcast, but thinking pragmatically (from ABC's perspective, basically), I guess it makes more sense to show the awards more of the populous is interested in... At very least I think we can all agree on that approach as it does seem weird to pit the giants against the quieter, more intimate fare. As you put it - give The Dark Knight its day in court, but Slumdog Millionaire, too. On principle, at very least, I think we can get down with that.