Thursday, 3 March 2016

Nine Days' Wonder



Nearly 10,000 feature films were released last year. We saw about three dozen of these; the ones we felt would be uplifting and entertaining. Of the movies we deemed worth the time and money, just six received Oscar nominations: Joy, Shaun the Sheep, The Martian, Cinderella, Inside Out and The Force Awakens. Only one of the movies we saw actually won an Oscar. In the real world, the Academy Awards are completely irrelevant. The more I learn about the selection process, the less this fact surprises me. The Oscar winners are chosen by 6,000 voters living in San Francisco, New York and London. These people – we know absolutely nothing else about them – have just over three weeks to see the 50+ nominated films before making their decisions. This means most of the voters never saw most of the movies they voted on. The ones they did catch they probably didn’t see on the big screen.

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