2022 Academy Awards
#202
DVD Talk Godfather & 2020 TOTY Winner
Re: 2022 Academy Awards
Public shaming. Works every time.
#203
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Re: 2022 Academy Awards
Mila Kunis will be one of the presenters at the Oscars. Imagine she will talked about the Ukraine war which she was born.
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#204
DVD Talk Hero
Re: 2022 Academy Awards
So let's pretend Spider-Man gets a nod. Is there anything else that was both popular and deserving? Anything at all? I certainly don't see anything that even comes close in the top 50 box office. Maybe House of Gucci, but that wasn't particularly popular or particularly good.
So is this all just about Spider-Man? Is the Academy suddenly "in touch" with that one single nomination?
So is this all just about Spider-Man? Is the Academy suddenly "in touch" with that one single nomination?
Though Encanto should have been a Best Picture nominee too.
Or we have another year of poor ratings.
#205
Re: 2022 Academy Awards
I'm sure Spider-Man was under consideration. It just didn't make the cut. For all we know it was #11. Besides, you can probably count the number of times in the last 50 years the yearly box office champ has been nominated for best pic on one hand. The Academy has never been beholden to the box office and it never used to matter. Should they have acknowledged Spider-Man? Sure. Maybe. Why not. Would it make any noticable difference in the ratings or the continued erosion of movie culture? Not likely.
#206
Senior Member
Re: 2022 Academy Awards
It's not like this year is without a huge popular blockbuster with multiple nominations. Dune made $400M in a pandemic and despite being on HBO. It still isn't making people tune in to watch. And as it turns out, all the awards it will win will be in tape delayed, edited segments anyway.
And I do think we're at the point where the general public do not care about the Oscars. Spider-Man getting a nom, even winning best picture. I don't think they care.
And honestly? I'm not sure how much I do anymore
#207
DVD Talk Godfather & 2020 TOTY Winner
Re: 2022 Academy Awards
I'm sure Spider-Man was under consideration. It just didn't make the cut. For all we know it was #11. Besides, you can probably count the number of times in the last 50 years the yearly box office champ has been nominated for best pic on one hand. The Academy has never been beholden to the box office and it never used to matter. Should they have acknowledged Spider-Man? Sure. Maybe. Why not. Would it make any noticable difference in the ratings or the continued erosion of movie culture? Not likely.
2010 - Toy Story 3
2009 - Avatar
2003 - Lord of the Rings : Return of the King (W)
1998 - Saving Private Ryan
1997 - Titanic (W)
1991 - Beauty and the Beast
1990 - Ghost
1988 - Rain Man (W)
1982 - ET The Extra-Terrestrial
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1977 - Star Wars
1976 - Rocky (W)
1975 - Jaws
1973 - The Sting (W)
1972 - The Godfather (W)
So more like two hands and one foot.
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#208
DVD Talk Ultimate Edition
Thread Starter
Re: 2022 Academy Awards
Mila Kunis will be one of the presenters at the Oscars. Imagine she will talked about the Ukraine war which she was born.
https://people.com/movies/oscars-202...ffany-haddish/
https://people.com/movies/oscars-202...ffany-haddish/
Hell, every other person on stage will probably mention Ukraine. Probably will add another 15 or 20 minutes to the show based on Ukraine comments alone.
#209
Re: 2022 Academy Awards
2018 - Black Panther
2010 - Toy Story 3
2009 - Avatar
2003 - Lord of the Rings : Return of the King (W)
1998 - Saving Private Ryan
1997 - Titanic (W)
1991 - Beauty and the Beast
1990 - Ghost
1988 - Rain Man (W)
1982 - ET The Extra-Terrestrial
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1977 - Star Wars
1976 - Rocky (W)
1975 - Jaws
1973 - The Sting (W)
1972 - The Godfather (W)
So more like two hands and one foot.
2010 - Toy Story 3
2009 - Avatar
2003 - Lord of the Rings : Return of the King (W)
1998 - Saving Private Ryan
1997 - Titanic (W)
1991 - Beauty and the Beast
1990 - Ghost
1988 - Rain Man (W)
1982 - ET The Extra-Terrestrial
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1977 - Star Wars
1976 - Rocky (W)
1975 - Jaws
1973 - The Sting (W)
1972 - The Godfather (W)
So more like two hands and one foot.
Edit: and wasn't Home Alone the champ in 1990?
Edit 2: and Exorcist in 1973
Last edited by rocket1312; 03-22-22 at 08:15 PM.
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#212
DVD Talk Legend
Re: 2022 Academy Awards
It would be nice if NBC or CBS got the rights to the Oscars and could change the format of the show or put pressure on the Academy to space out the major awards and not have 90 minutes of the smaller awards and then rush and throw in all the big awards in the last 10 minutes
#213
DVD Talk Hero - 2023 TOTY Award Winner
Re: 2022 Academy Awards
He, Shaun White and Kelly Slater are presenting...for some reason.
#214
DVD Talk Godfather & 2020 TOTY Winner
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#216
DVD Talk Hero
Re: 2022 Academy Awards
https://twitter.com/tonyhawk/status/1506043115731185664
He, Shaun White and Kelly Slater are presenting...for some reason.
He, Shaun White and Kelly Slater are presenting...for some reason.
#217
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Re: 2022 Academy Awards
#218
DVD Talk Hero
Re: 2022 Academy Awards
^ Oh well shit, I stand corrected. She deserves to be there. The others? Not so much.
#219
DVD Talk Hero
Re: 2022 Academy Awards
It would be nice if NBC or CBS got the rights to the Oscars and could change the format of the show or put pressure on the Academy to space out the major awards and not have 90 minutes of the smaller awards and then rush and throw in all the big awards in the last 10 minutes
And don’t they normally space out the big acting awards? Best Picture should be last and Best Director should be near it. Otherwise I think it’s usually pretty spread out.
#220
Re: 2022 Academy Awards
The fact that there is so much content coming at you from every direction is part of the reason the ratings have been declining. The same can be said for network television in general. But then again the Super Bowl still does huge numbers. Honestly though, when it comes to the Oscars, I think the blame needs to be shouldered almost entirely by the studios themselves. Stellan Skarsgard hit the nail on the head in an interview he did talking about the death of the mid budget movie. If it wasn’t for older audiences coming back to theaters slower than younger ones, I think a film like The Last Duel would be have been a sure fire awards contender. But more and more all the big theaters show is the franchise/instant name recognition stuff. I mean after Silence bombed, even Scorsese had to go to Netflix for The Irishman. With Ridley Scott having 2 high profile bombs this year, he’s probably in the same boat.
There’s not really much in between anymore. You’re either a blockbuster, or a small art house film that gets a week in theaters or only plays at whatever is left of independent theaters. The problem, when you really boil it down, is that Hollywood doesn’t really make Oscar films anymore. And after 2 years of Covid where the only films that made money were the ones with someone wearing a cape, it’s only going to get worse.
https://www.slashfilm.com/671486/ste...-budget-movie/
There’s not really much in between anymore. You’re either a blockbuster, or a small art house film that gets a week in theaters or only plays at whatever is left of independent theaters. The problem, when you really boil it down, is that Hollywood doesn’t really make Oscar films anymore. And after 2 years of Covid where the only films that made money were the ones with someone wearing a cape, it’s only going to get worse.
https://www.slashfilm.com/671486/ste...-budget-movie/
#221
DVD Talk Ultimate Edition
Thread Starter
Re: 2022 Academy Awards
Again, why would NBC or CBS want it? It’s how the Academy operates and the decisions they make that cause all of these issues.
And don’t they normally space out the big acting awards? Best Picture should be last and Best Director should be near it. Otherwise I think it’s usually pretty spread out.
And don’t they normally space out the big acting awards? Best Picture should be last and Best Director should be near it. Otherwise I think it’s usually pretty spread out.
Oh I thought they always did one of the supporting actor awards in the first half hour, then it’s like 90 minutes of nothing, and I thought Actor, Actress, Director and Picture were squeezed into the final 30 mins.
I never liked that.
#223
Senior Member
Re: 2022 Academy Awards
What I think they should do is make it a 5+ hour event with all the razzle dazzle, but for streaming. Get the streaming views and the ad content that way. Then ABC can cut it into a 2.5-3 hour showcase for the television viewing.
#224
DVD Talk Limited Edition
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It's still a three-hour broadcast, but now with a lot of the categories being presented separately. I can't wait to see what useless nonsense they use to fill the time.
#225
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German TV did it that way. They showed the Oscars live but its at 3am and an edited version at 8pm.