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The Oscars
1953 · TV series · 100 seasons
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
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Two weeks ago, I wanted to find a movie to watch amongst the 2022 Oscars nominated movies. It was a very time consuming process and I ended up not watching anything that night. I had to find the movie names, search for their ratings, then search for trailers and so on.
Throughout past week, I’ve been working on https://www.awardedfilms.com/ to have a single website with all the Oscars nominated and award-winning movies. I’d love to know what you think about it! :)
I think this might take another generation. The Oscars represent the high production values/costs of the entertainment industry. Giving an Oscar to a 17 year old with an iPhone would threaten the foundation of a lot of that industry.
I suspect we'll see a tipping point soon (if we haven't already) where more minutes of time are spent watching content produced on an iPhone vs an expensive film camera.
The CPC propaganda department has ordered its local media to stagger the Oscars this year and downplay the event because this documentary short was nominated. https://variety.com/2021/film/asia/china-tells-media-stagger-oscars-broadcast-1234932535/
I watched it recently and thought it didn't go nearly far enough in highlighting the abuses by the HK police, and even glossed over or omitted some very important events that triggered the continued protests. I actually felt it was far too fair to the HKSAR government and police.
The fragility of the CPC and its fear in being portrayed in any negative light knows no limits.
It is going to get worst. If you think carefully and quoting Feynman "There is plenty of room at the bottom".
Do you want examples?
A Simon Bolivar statue was vandalized in Florida, now Bolivar was no saint but he is a South-American hero he died in 1830 and now he has been tarnished just by being a "White Slaver"(He was not). Well, let's see you can come now after the name Bolivia, named after him, you can also include Colombia, America, The Philippines, El Salvador, Dominican Republic and many many more. I have seen several prominent people just shy of outright requesting that.
The Oscars are going to change their eligibility criteria and it will be based supposedly on the British awards, quoting from a NYT article "All entries in two British film categories, outstanding British film and outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer, are now required to increase representation to meet at least two of four diversity standards, like 'onscreen representation, themes and narratives,' and 'industry access and opportunities.' among others." Do you know what this means for art? Bye Celine, by Kafka,bye Joyce, bye Kurosawa, bye Kubrick, bye Lynch, bye Tarantino and so on. Only wholesome, clean , politically conscious entertainment will be recognized. Now, what does this remind you of?
None of the current power-holders will be affected for all these changes, so no essential change. The big traditional companies are already on-board, Silicon Valley is on board, the savvy political parties are on-board, Hollywood is on-board , the media too. What this will do is to disenfranchise and silence any dissenting, dissonant voice and create a moralist culture which will dictate in a top-down form the "correct way" to do things and interpret the world. You disagree? No Facebook for you, No youtube, no mastercard, no visa, no Stanford, no Netflix, no New York Times, no BBC, nothing for you.