I’m now starting to feel a little better about the 10 Best Picture nominees thing. Read the full post.
Aug 31
2009
06:00 PM ET
Academy changes Best Picture voting rules
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This is just more of the same. They’re reworking everything so it looks like they’ve made a big change, when they are actually just taking the long way around to a typical conclusion. Unfortunatey, they’ll arrange this to ensure that good films like Seabiscuit, Mystic River, The Dark Knight and Milk lose, and dreayry overhyped garbage like Slumdog Millionaire will continue to take it all. I hope their ratings free fall this year.
I don’t see the voting outcomes altering too radically – voters will figure out how to get the results they want. It really just seems like a last-ditch attempt to get more people to watch the show by catering to the audience that claims the only reason they don’t watch it is because, for example, The Dark Knight didn’t get a Best Picture nod. I’d be really surprised if a significant number of those people actually watch the broadcast instead of just tuning in to the Best Picture reveal.
Get a quick walk-through of how instant-runoff voting works (and what’s good about it) at http://is.gd/2LWOc
It’s nowhere near as complicated as people seem to think it is, and generally cuts down on the whole wasted-vote and spoiler-candidate effects.
Will this really make a difference in campaigning? I mean, it’s just trying to get people to like the film. Whether they like it or love it won’t make a difference in campaigning, will it?
I think this is good. I liked the 10 movies thing from the onset, because it gives non-December releases a shot. Fact: with 5 nominees, State of Play would be forgotten. With 10 it might not. And it’s surely an Oscar movie!
Хорошая статья, как и все предыдущие были. Буду теперь и дальше следить .
The Oscars are just a publicity ploy, they’re sycophantic and boring. All these self-congratutory “awards” are hypocritical popularity contests. I detest the Oscars. We should just get rid of them. But Hollywood controls the media, so that won’t happen. I’m fed up with Hollywood telling everyone how “great” it is. Hollywood is just a bunch of druggies, drunks, perverts, script thieves and high school dropouts. Films made from stolen scripts should not even be nominated.