Film critic SeanMBurns grew up watching the televised awards ceremony, but the Academy’s continued “contempt for craft categories” – such as editing and original score – has pushed him to reconsider.
, “I think it’s important to call things by their right name so as not to minimize the meaning of true exclusion in these spaces.”
The prevailing wisdom within the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences seems to be that regular folks don’t care about these categories — because I guess boring stuff like editing, production design, original score and sound aren’t important aspects of the cinematic experience — and audiences will instead be indulged this year with new awards sourced on Twitter, of all godforsaken places, for #OscarsFanFavorite and #OscarsCheerMoment.
The Academy doesn’t seem to feel like making much of a case for that anymore. Last year’s desultory distribution of statuettes didn’t even bother showing clips from the nominated films. It was one of the most joyless spectacles I’ve ever seen on TV, aduring those pre-vaccine days, for which the producers kicked all the homeless people out of LA’s Union Station to give an award to a Disney movie about homelessness made by a billionaire Marvel director.
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