but what are the odds something like Return of the King or Fury Road would've never broken into the Best Picture field if there was a popular movie category they could've been shuffled off into instead? This thing is going to be used in the same way that the animated and foreign language categories are used: to keep movies out of best picture.
They already have that, it's called "Best Animated Feature".
I'd rather they just...give it a best pic nomination.
For sure. I'm guessing Get Out would have won it last year as well. If Get Out for some reason didn't qualify as "popular", then Logan or Wonder Woman probably would have gotten it.
I'm not disagreeing with you. It's a shit move for quality popular movies that have earned the right to sit alongside other greats.
The Dark Knight actually did not get nominated for BP which is what many believe led to the nomination list being expanded from 5 to up to 10.
iirc stunt performers didn't want a best stuntwork category as it will encourage dangerous sunts
You're aware your precious Avatar would've been relegated to this, right?
that definitely makes sense. Maybe motion cap work would be a good one.
Holy shit, that's a solid way of putting it.
I thought that at first, but then realised that if the Academy had done that, they couldn't market their bullshit David vs Goliath/First Woman Director Indie vs Ex-Husband Director of the largest Blockbuster ever that we've happened to sit in the seat behind bullshit scenario.
I'm all for this if they are really making a sellout category tbh.
Titanic swept regardless of this category existing so of course it would win and it wouldn't be random. The question is which category would it have been nominated in.
Yeah, except people now just say it for any non-blockbuster film nominated for Oscars.
It would have been nominated in both and won both. The award is kinda disrespectful to big movies that were good enough to, well, get nominated and win.
Sure. They're both better movies than Three Billboards, The Post, Hacksaw Ridge, The Imitation Game, Birdman, American Hustle, Her, Argo, Les Miserables, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Hugo, The Help, Avatar, The Blind Side, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Crash, Finding Neverland, Ray, American Beauty, Shakespeare in Love, The Thin Red Line, Good Will Hunting, Braveheart, Scent of a Woman,
