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Oscar categories they should ax

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I can't even remember the last time I watched an Oscar ceremony. Probably back in the late 70s or early 80s. I just remember the last one I watched was about 2 hours too long and as boring as hell, and I remember the Academy voting on movies because they were popular and not because they were good.
 
You would get rid of art direction and sound editing?

Ugh.. People,who don't know how movies are made give me hives.
 
^ all that can go with the Humanitarian and Scientific Award presentations on another night
 
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I say that the 'sound editing and art direction etc etc, are vital contributions to the magic of the finished product. But the contributors are too often shambling, boring and ineloquent.
 
thatgirl said:
Viola was robbed tonight.
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You may well have a point; but soon as I saw the promo for the Iron Lady back in ?August, I said to my companions "ooh, Oscar for Meryl Streep." I have seen neither that film nor The Help to date, though.

However, look at winners and nominees in recent times - biopics tend to take them. Reese Witherspoon as Mrs Johnny Cash, Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles, Hoffman as Capote, Helen Mirren as QE2, Cate Blanchett as Audrey Hepburn, Colin Firth last year as George the 6th, both supporting roles in The Fighter last year.

Even losers have been nominated in biographical roles - di Caprio's Howard Hughes, Joaquin Phoenix's Johnny Cash, Russell Crowe's John Nash (and his role in The Insider), Will Smith as Ali, Sidibe's Precious and Morgan Freeman's Mandela in Invictus among others.

What I am trying to say is, once people have a point of reference - archival footage of a real person, especially a larger-than-life person - and they see someone pull it off comparatively well, it's easy to assume the actor has done a very good job. Far more difficult, perhaps, for someone playing a fictitious character unless they really knock it out of the park - having not seen the film I'm lead to believe this is exactly what Viola Davis did, so it is a double whammy for her.

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pat grimshaw said:
I've never been able to see any reason why the Academy voters vote the way they do.
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There has never really been any logic to the way the Academy votes. One of the prerequisites should be to actually see the films!

Also, has anyone figured out why they ultimately allowed Sasha Baron Cohen show up dressed in his Dictator character? The guy has an ego the size of Europe and it needs to be knocked down a peg or two. He shouldn't be allowed to walk all over tradition and make up his own rules.
 
No, none of the categories they show on-air should be cut. All of them are for creative processes and they should honor all creative processes that go into making a film. Film editing is crucial part of the process and deserves an award, though I don't understand why the director of a film is not also its editor.

I don't understand the difference between sound editing and sound mixing and why they are 2 separate awards. I think they used to have an award for sound effects, and I can see the difference between sound effects and sound editing, but not the difference between sound editing and sound mixing. The other categories are pretty clear.

And the herd mentality sometimes sweeps a film to win in many categories, where if they sat down to analyze each category, probably the deserving winners would be much more evenly divided and not all to one film. Did "Titanic" really deserve 11 Oscars?

They really should have the same group of members that voted for the nominations be the group that votes for the winner. Can they really expect a screenwriter to identify great sound? Or an actor to identify the best live action short subject?

Usually the movie that wins for Best Director also wins for Best Picture, but sometimes not... is it odd that they would say that the best job of directing of that year did not produce the best picture of that year?

A lot of the awards go out based on someone's popularity, or if it's an older actor/actress, really based on a body of work and giving them an Oscar for one film is their opportunity to say, "Yeah, you deserve an Oscar." I think this was the case with Christopher Plummer.
 
Music (original Song)

Costume Design

Documentary (short Subject)

Sound Editing

Documentary (feature)

Foreign Language Film
 
Cut the MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG) category. WTF, they only had 2 nominees this year. I haven't seen either movie or heard either song, but judging by the short soundbites during the award presentation they SUCKED.
 
^How are you going to ask what would we remove, only to tell us what we should keep?!
 
To cut the Documentary award would be disastrous. Most of the best filmmaking of the last 10 years has been documentary.

I'd like to see them add a category of Best Original Story. Older movies listed both the screenwriter and the story writer in the credits. Maybe adding that would inspire Hollywood to come up with better stories.

I don't really understand why any awards for acting, singing or any other performances are separated into male and female categories, really. It's almost like saying the women aren't good enough to compete against the men, or vice versa.
 
bw92116 said:
…I'd like to see them add a category of Best Original Story…
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Isn't that covered by the award for 'WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)'?

bw92116 said:
…I don't really understand why any awards for acting, singing or any other performances are separated into male and female categories…
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Part of me agrees with you and the other part doesn't.
 
^I've also thought they should have a story/concept Oscar, different to those for screenplay.

Things like The Matrix, Inception and The Truman Show were all brilliant as concepts, but something all action/adventurey like The Matrix is never going to have enough meat in it for a writing award.

bw92116 said:
I don't really understand why any awards for acting, singing or any other performances are separated into male and female categories, really. It's almost like saying the women aren't good enough to compete against the men, or vice versa.
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Especially when they changed the word Actress to Female Actor. I mean, if you're going to insist on putting Female in front of it to show the distinction, surely a separate word like actress is just as good?

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