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They will never accomplish that goal until they look themselves in the mirror honestly and remove the portions of the show that make it run long. The excessive length is never the cumulative result of winners speaking an extra ten seconds. It is always, always, always the skits and montages that...

Sounds like part and parcel with the usual Academy nonsense of celebrating things they refuse to consider as being awards worthy when it’s convenient for ratings.

A network analyst with half a clue would understand last year’s ratings were especially down specifically because the pandemic curtailed the releases of most films, and the ones that studios did put out that became eligible for consideration were, in general, not aligned with what the moviegoing...

Forcing them to nominate certain films won’t work - it’ll backfire in the same way that upping BP to ten slots didn’t produce more recognition of crowd pleasing choices. It’s more of an existential problem. The Academy voters seem not to believe in the product their industry is making, and...

That was my point though to what Tino was saying about wanting all of the awards and ancillary ceremonies all at once - why not just block out a whole day, put the technical and honorary awards on in the afternoon on cable or streaming or whatever and call that a pregame (they normally happen on...

Dedicated movie fans by and large don’t mind, at least anecdotally. They might mind the stupid stuff that doesn’t have anything to do with the awards, but not that the show itself can be long. The obsession with time is part of a futile attempt trying to appeal to a group that will never be...

All they lack is the will. If a three hour football game can be a nine hour broadcast for Super Bowl coverage, there’s no reason why there couldn’t be coverage of all the awards, especially given the huge number of channels and streaming platforms that ABC’s parent company has access to...

100% this. Year after year, we get a show bloated with montages of films, with voiceovers telling us how being at the movies is an experience that brings us together, telling us how these films stay in our memories and become a part of who we are, and without fail, they use clips from widely...

Not at all. Popular movies that aren’t particularly well made don’t deserve a nomination, but if Jaws/Star Wars/Raiders were legit choices, I think a legitimate argument can be made that many popular films of the past two decades have been equally among the year’s five or ten best and deserved...

100% this.

It’s only happened something like five times out of nearly a hundred that a film has won BP without a BD nom. It’s not a technical disqualification so it can happen, but it’s still so statistically rare that it’s the exception that proves the rule.

I believe Dune is this year’s “see? We nominate expensive films too” token nominee. The lack of a Best Director nomination ultimately shows that they don’t consider it a real contender.

I would argue that those are the exceptions that prove the rule. Most of those films were nominated as much for the pedigree behind them as the films themselves. With all due respect to GF3, a film I actually enjoy, do you think that even gets nominated if the first two films hadn’t already...

I believe it would be most likely be eligible for Emmy consideration, as a nine hour made for television documentary. After that OJ documentary got both an Emmy and an Oscar, which is quite frankly ludicrous, the members of both organizations closed the loophole that allowed that to be possible...