Oscars to add "Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film" Category

Thread needs more Whoppie.

 

Criminals, hillbillies, Nazis, blacks, and emigrants! Yikes, sounds the news of 2018!

 

Oprah, Uma... Uma, Oprah...

 

Lilly, Dali.... Dali, Lilly.

 

Participation Oscars!

 

hA! good one...real good.

 

Ha !

 

"I don't know whether to present this award because of all the cowboys shot in all the John Ford westerns over the years..."

 

Love the reference to Antonioni, one of my favorite directors all time. L'Avventura is a spectacular film, one I always find something, some new level or angle, in it on every viewing. I was not aware Ebert earlier disliked his work since I have read his reviews heaping praise on his films. (meaning the later reviews you referred to.)

You point to a general issue with film critics - some are more well versed in the field than others. To be clear diversity of such knowledge is not the only metric for being a worthwhile film critic, but it obviously helps.

I tend to find myself in agreement with critics when there is general agreement among them, but not always. Three Billboards is an excellent example. I get that the critics loved the performances, and the cast. And the focus of the story was also interesting. But for me as a viewer it got lost in the third act, and ended up having a very unclear point to it. This may not have been such a problem in a different kind of film. But Three Billboards seemed very much the kind of film that was making a case and then seems to have forgotten what it was trying to say.

 

And the nominees are....IMDB running a poll for 2017 movies, it doesn't follow box office receipts to the letter but close enough

Poll: Oscars 2018 — Achievement in Popular Film - IMDb - IMDb

 

They should have just made it "Best Movie in the First Half of the Year" (i.e., encompassing most of the summer blockbusters) and "Best Movie in the Second Half of the Year" (all the fall Oscar-bait releases).

 

It looks like the Academy has changed its mind about implementing this new category.

Academy Retreats on ‘Popular’ Oscar Category for Now

 

So, the "gee-you're-swell" Award now gets bumped to the Nerd Awards show maybe?
Guess "Most Popular" wasn't all that popular after all...
Perhaps they could ask Sean Spicer to come out and explain it...? "...period!"

 

That's why I stopped caring about The Oscars. When it comes to "Best Picture" it should go to the best picture released in that year, if it is animated so be it.

 

Most popular films 1990-2018 Worldwide Gross $$

2018 - Avengers - Infinity War
2017 - Star Wars - The Last Jedi
2016 - Captain America - Civil War
2015 - Star Wars - The Force Awakens
2014 - Transformers - Age of Extinction
2013 - Frozen
2012 - Marvel's The Avengers
2011 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
2010 - Toy Story 3
2009 - Avatar
2008 - The Dark Knight
2007 - Pirates of the Caribbean - At World's End
2006 - Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest
2005 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2004 - Shrek 2
2003 - Lord of the Rings - Return of the King
2002 - Lord of the Rings - Two Towers
2001 - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
2000 - Mission Impossible II
1999 - Star Wars - Phantom Menace
1998 - Armageddon
1997 - Titanic
1996 - Independence Day
1995 - Toy Story
1994 - The Lion King
1993 - Jurassic Park
1992 - Aladdin
1991 - Terminator 2 - Judgement Day
1990 - Ghost

 

2 best picture winners on that list. (6%)

 

Haven't seen any. Did I miss anything?

 

On that list, I would give a recommendation for:
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Aladdin
Jurassic Park
The Lion King
Toy Story
The Lord of the Rings films
The Dark Knight (probably the best film on the list, for me)
Toy Story 3
+ I love Harry Potter so I enjoy those, but wouldn't call them brilliant films.

Some of the others have their merits. Titanic is a very technically well-made film, even if it has a lot of flaws.

 

The "Participation Academy Award"

YOU GET AN AWARD
YOU GET AN AWARD,
YOU GET AN AWARD,
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YOU GET AN AWARD
YOU GET AN AWARD
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YOU GET AN AWARD
YOU GET AN AWARD
YOU GET AN AWARD
EVERYONE GETS AN AWARD!!!

 

I don't know how to answer this ? Are you being serious or trolling?

 

THIS IS MY JAM.

 

yay!

 

Agree 100%. Every once in a while the Academy goes BP for a movie that's not "important" - "Silence of the Lambs", "LOTR" - but usually they demand that the film be Serious and Meaningful.

This is why "Chariots of Eggs" beat "Raiders of the Lost Ark" even though the latter is arguably the greatest action film ever made and the former is pretty ordinary...

 

6 BP nominees, I think.

A US grosses list would add at least 1: "Forrest Gump"...

 

On that list, I think only 1 of the movies stinks: "Transformers: AOE".

The rest range from decent to great. I'd agree that "Dark Knight" is probably the best of that bunch, but there are some other really good flicks, too!