Right? One of my all time favourite movies I watch every time it is on is Final Countdown. Nary a mention for any awards and it had Martin Sheen, Kirk Douglas and Katherine Ross! Sheesh.
It’s not a good movie, it’s just OK. I enjoyed it when I was a kid, but it’s not very well directed, the script is just OK, and the acting is acceptable but nothing special. It got middling reviews and didn’t do well at the box office. What do you expect?
Don’t watch the Oscars. I won’t bear witness to the Red Hand pin wearing actors vs The Brigade. Now is an inappropriate moment for the artistic community to turn on itself. Is there no safe haven? Passive viewing takes us from the job at hand...chiefly to dethrone the Dicktator Felon and F-Elon.
It was created as a promotional event for the movie industry, and that is what it continues to be. People take it way too seriously, but it should be accepted merely as a way to celebrate the industry and to encourage the development of the artistry and skills involved.
It's a commercial to sell movies. It makes zero difference in the scheme of things what actors award other actors for. One can win an Oscar with 21% of the vote. If you find that significant, enjoy it. But it's no more significant that winning employee of the year. And I'm a artist, I work for me.
You have a strong opinion for something that has zero impact on your life. I wonder what you could accomplish were you commit that energy and effort into something positive.
People treat this like it really matters? The Oscars are nothing more than a huge ad for and by the movie industry. Winning an Oscar doesn't make a good movie great, or a mediocre movie good. Most of my favorite movies didn't win anything.
I thought this was common knowledge. The idea that some people thought it was some clandestine council now makes sense to some of the backlash it has received in the past.
Surely the voting method migh be boring but there is an intense degree of lobbying, Otherwise how could you explain the many nominations of Emilia Perez?
Let's not forget how Harvey Weinstein made Shakespeare in love a winner.
It’s more than just a single online ballot. Nominations are more involved, with determinations by committees of professionals in each category and then the general members vote online for winners. It’s the opposite for the Globes: general member nominations and then category pros decide the winner.
Do the nominees know who are voting? I have a feeling, no one gets more gifts in the mail than the academy during award’s season. How do we guarantee they have actually watched all the movies they are voting on?
I worked with AMPAS as a contractor about 15 years ago where the complaint from members was that they couldn't vote online, it was a paper ballot. Now the expectation is that this should be paper?! Funny.
What I am suspicious of is the Emmy voting. There is no way the voters can see all the shows: 100s!! Show. Actor. Actress. Writing. Etc. maybe 1000's!! So. Fake?
That appears to be pretty much how I thought it was done.
I didn't expect all those people to have to show up at one location to vote, after all, they may be almost anywhere on the world during the voting period!
Every person, upon reaching 18y-o-a, or being Naturalized, could be assigned a personal ID number that is NOT to be used for any purpose other than voting. After the election votes are counted, every person can verify what candidates their vote was recorded to, and if wrong, it would be reversed...
... before FINAL tallies were certified!
One month is more than enough time for that after voting process to be performed.
Auditing could be performed as a standard survey like process on 20 percent of the votes cast per precinct list.
The survey could be automated without any machine making changes
Not surprising. We could all be voting online. And yes, of course it can me made secure. We could all be doing our taxes online for free too. It's just political will over monied special interests.
Bruce Vilanch has a Podcast that is about the Oscars and the other two guys on it where a little baffled, I felt that it was that simple but it does explain why certain movie do and don’t win.
FUN FACT:
Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick never won a SINGLE Best Director Oscar.
The Oscars are the punchline to an ELITIST joke, and only rubes are entertained by their phony ceremony for rich people who don't have to obey the same basic laws that we do. They are not us.
Why is that even a surprise to people in 2025? But I’d rather not have the public vote or nominate movies. Otherwise movies like Transformers would win every year. There’s more to cinema than main stream popcorn movies. It’s a celebration within the industry. There’s already awards from the public.
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Care? Also a no.
Do you not celebrate and praise your coworkers when they do good work?
Let's not forget how Harvey Weinstein made Shakespeare in love a winner.
Costume designers do not vote for Best Documentary Feature.
Long story.
https://www.abc15.com/entertainment/television/oscars/whos-the-man-behind-the-oscar-statuette
What I am suspicious of is the Emmy voting. There is no way the voters can see all the shows: 100s!! Show. Actor. Actress. Writing. Etc. maybe 1000's!! So. Fake?
CODA, a better movie than Dune? CODA was a decent "TV" movie - Dune was moviemaking at its best!
It's the lobbying and campaigning, the politics and the buddy-groups that I want to know more about..
I didn't expect all those people to have to show up at one location to vote, after all, they may be almost anywhere on the world during the voting period!
OUR Federal elections should be so simple!
One month is more than enough time for that after voting process to be performed.
Auditing could be performed as a standard survey like process on 20 percent of the votes cast per precinct list.
The survey could be automated without any machine making changes
Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick never won a SINGLE Best Director Oscar.
The Oscars are the punchline to an ELITIST joke, and only rubes are entertained by their phony ceremony for rich people who don't have to obey the same basic laws that we do. They are not us.