Best Picture? Not so much.
I remember hearing that a number of Oscar voters chose 12 Years A Slave as best picture, and they had not even seen the movie. The story was they voted that way because it would make a statement by voting for that movie.
The “Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences” is just slightly more to the Left and political than the “American Psychological Association” All is politically correct therefore devoid of reality and honest perspectives. Few of the films nominated are good much less “art”.
That’s racist!
Two things I have noticed about the Oscars that I think are eternal truths: 1.) when Hollywood decides to virtue signal, they’ll give themselves an award; 2.) when Hollywood makes a move about making movies, they’ll give themselves an award.
Ellis better get busy writing his “apology”. LOL.
An alternate explanation is that Oscar voters know what's good for them.
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Can’t be much worse than the other nominees.
Certainly not a far fetched idea. Many, many things are done today for exactly that reason. To our detriment.
Well by certain logic then I guess “Shaft” should have had a best picture Oscar in 1971, much better film than “Black Panther”.
I note it did win for best song by Isaac Hayes.
I was never on the “Black Panther” bashing train. One, I didn’t see it, but based on the plot, I really didn’t see too much bad about it, in fact, it seemed there were some actually conservative messages in it.
I would even go as far to say, I’d probably enjoy it more than any of the other nominated movies.
The Black Panther character looked good in "Civil War." He was fierce, determined, deadly and clever. In the "Black Panther" movie, he seemed more inept, his female amazon upstaged him a lot, and he just wasn't that impressive.
Also, the most advanced civilization on the planet, and they battle to see who is King? Not very advanced if you ask me.
>>“The entertainment press and the studio is selling the notion that ‘Black Panther’ is a grand piece of cinematic art that cannot be ignored. And this notion is being shoved down our throats and we can only smile in disbelief. Or perhaps understand that this is just the moment we’re trapped in. A joke, a hoax. It’s all fake news, folks,” Ellis said. He said the Oscars are a good indication of how Hollywood views itself, whether or not voters choose the the best films.
Oscar(TM) is a naked emperor. Laugh at his new clothes.
No documentary nominations for the Mr. Rogers film (which I heard was uplifting and good) or Peter Jackson’s archival WWI documentary.
No visual effects nomination for Peter Jackson’s enhancement of archival footage (beyond mere restoration, it was transfomative).
No cinematography or visual effects nomination for Mandy.
Craft and innovation are not the criteria for nominations at the NPC Oscars. And they can’t even find an uncompromised host or hostess anymore.
Back in the 1970s...there was a particular year where just about every movie up for Oscar status was one step down from ‘super-status’. I see 2019 as a repeat...none of the eight movies seem to be that good (I’ve seen four of them). On Bohemian Rhapsody, it’s a nice tidy movie with the musical scores but beyond that....it’s not ‘super-status’. The Favorite is more of a ‘wicked’ comedy and maybe sixty chuckles throughout the movie, but it’s not ‘super-status’. Black Panther was your typical Marvel movie with a great theme, and decent story....but it was not ‘super-status’. From the 15 minutes I spent watching A Star is Born....it doesn’t measure up with the 1937 classic.
The sad thing is that last year....there were five terrific movies up and you could only select one of them....all five would have easily bested anything for this year’s Oscar.
It was a safe movie. It was better than Aquaman.
But it wasn’t revolutionary in any way or had a storyline that made people think.
White heterosexuals need not apply. Telling the truth in Hollywood is not a career enhancer!
this notion is being shoved down our throats and we can only smile in disbelief.
So true.
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It was ok...but just ok.
Certainly NOT Best Picture worthy. Although given the crap it is competing with, it may have a good shot at winning.
I felt the same way. It was just an ok movie, nothing special. The story was not that interesting and I thought the acting was a bit wooden.
I agree that there are a lot of MCU films that are better made and much better entertainment.