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Feb 25, 2015 - 5:47 AM
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Graham Watt
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Apart from the people nominated (& their family & parents), does anyone really care who won or didn't win. It's all a load of nothing.
Yeah, I'm still smarting from that smack in the face back in '69 when Barbara Streisand beat Kate Hepburn, Butterfly McQueen beat Goldie Hawn, Michael J. Pollard beat Bradford Dillman, Arthur Hiller beat Franklin Schaffner, Doodie Wilson beat Alfred Newman, Dick Bush beat Owen Roizman, William Goldman beat Jimmy Sangster, and Dorothy Pavillion beat Edith Head... or was that actually in '68...?
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Feb 25, 2015 - 9:30 AM
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tgjackson93
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The Oscars, like the Grammys, are a relic of a time when awards mattered to the public, I think that the internet and it's blogs and boards and armchair movie critics with websites have thoroughly eroded the relevance of these awards.
These internet armchair critics or "Look, I have my own awards" blogs do not matter a bit to the industry. The public though, yeah, probably already get their fill from the great unwashed online 
It amuses me when people use that criticism. I can't imagine many people who write something similar to what I've written think that what they say has any impact on the industry. It's just written for a bit of fun, to entertain and express your views and spark discussion, not to actually impart wisdom.
Evidently the Oscars still have some prevalence to the film society, even with a 16% drop in the US they were viewed by 36.6m people - that's not counting global audiences. Bear in mind the 'stars' that turn up and claim it to be the pinnacle of their achievements too, the Oscars still matter - they're iconic. Also their relevance is not eroded by armchair critics as the Academy tends to be experienced and of expertise. Clearly unlike myself and everyone else here..
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Feb 25, 2015 - 9:52 AM
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Ado
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The Oscars, like the Grammys, are a relic of a time when awards mattered to the public, I think that the internet and it's blogs and boards and armchair movie critics with websites have thoroughly eroded the relevance of these awards.
These internet armchair critics or "Look, I have my own awards" blogs do not matter a bit to the industry. The public though, yeah, probably already get their fill from the great unwashed online
It amuses me when people use that criticism. I can't imagine many people who write something similar to what I've written think that what they say has any impact on the industry. It's just written for a bit of fun, to entertain and express your views and spark discussion, not to actually impart wisdom.
Evidently the Oscars still have some prevalence to the film society, even with a 16% drop in the US they were viewed by 36.6m people - that's not counting global audiences. Bear in mind the 'stars' that turn up and claim it to be the pinnacle of their achievements too, the Oscars still matter - they're iconic. Also their relevance is not eroded by armchair critics as the Academy tends to be experienced and of expertise. Clearly unlike myself and everyone else here..
That was a highly skilled and well written completely missing the point of what I said.
I would say that was expert level missing the point.
Pretty good chance you work in the industry and maybe even a voting member.
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Feb 25, 2015 - 9:58 AM
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Ado
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The Oscars, like the Grammys, are a relic of a time when awards mattered to the public, I think that the internet and it's blogs and boards and armchair movie critics with websites have thoroughly eroded the relevance of these awards.
These internet armchair critics or "Look, I have my own awards" blogs do not matter a bit to the industry. The public though, yeah, probably already get their fill from the great unwashed online
Congrats, you actually got the point, unlike someone else who joined the board - just today.
I hardly think that how recently anyone joined the board has any relevance
Yeah, you are surely in the industry, and your surely joined ruffled of the feathers, and if I think it is relevant to me, then it is relevant. So what do you do in the industry?
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