The Oscar broadcast has cut eight prize presentations from its live line - up — including craft categories like Production Design , Film Editing , and Sound that have often been wherescience fictionand phantasy films have found their most success .
This news comes fromThe Hollywood Reporter , which quotes Academy president David Rubin as saying the move is intend “ to increase viewer engagement and keep the show full of life , kinetic , andrelevant . ” The eight family that wo n’t make the broadcast are : Documentary ( Short Subject ) , Film Editing , Makeup and Hairstyling , Music ( Original Score ) , Production Design , Short Film ( Animated ) , Short Film ( Live Action ) , andSound . ( Rubin ’s statement , which notes the ceremonial occasion will begin an hr earlier than the televised show so that these honour can be given out ahead of sentence , also includes the authority that “ all the nominees in ALL awards category will be identified on line and ALL winners ’ acceptance speeches will be featured on the live broadcast . ” )
Sound was antecedently split into two categories , Mixing and Editing , but the categories were combined after the 2020 awards — presumably since most Oscar voter do n’t get laid the departure between them , and have just kind of gestured wildly at whatever flashy war / superhero / fancy cinema does big thunder good . Which lead to the bigger tip : six of the eight categories are craft award , which have for age been where genre picture has found the most success during this and many other international awarding evince .
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Take , for example , the 2015 Academy Awards . The Best Picture victor that year was Spotlight , a critic ’s darling that received widespread plaudit and six Academy nomination , but only won two awards . Also on the Best Picture slate that year wasMad Max : Fury Road , which received nine nomination across the board . While George Miller ’s modish sore Max instalment did n’t get the top prize , it come off withsix Oscars : Best Costume Design , Best Film Editing , Best Makeup and Hairstyling , Best Production Design , Best Sound Editing , and Best Sound Mixing – all wiliness awards . If the 2015 Oscar broadcast had cut the category that Mad Max won , the flick ’s creators would only be able to bear two awards exist … the same amount as Spotlight , a photographic film that stand for very little to genre fans and rarely come up in the public cultural discourse today .
The Fury Road good example might be extreme , but this yearDenis Villeneuve ’s Dune is up for 10 awards , and one-half of those will go by the pre - recorded wayside if the current decision still stands in a month . Historically , skill fiction , illusion , and repulsion film have been largely shut out of the most democratic awards – Best feature of speech , Best Actor , and Best Actress . Guillermo Del Toro ’s Best Picture - winningThe Shape of Waterbroke a nearly 15 - twelvemonth rebuff in 2017 , after The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King win in 2003 — itself the first fantasy film to ever gain an Oscar . Science fiction remains an even more bleak class for Best Picture hopefuls ; Star state of war : A New Hope lose in 1977 , and 2001 : A Space Odyssey was n’t even constitute .
Besides Dune , literary genre film like Do n’t reckon Up ( appoint for Best Picture , Best Original Screenplay , Best Original Score , and Best Film Editing ) , Encanto ( Original Score ) , Robin Robin ( Animated Short ) , No Time to Die ( Sound ) , Cruella ( Makeup and Hairstyling ) , andNightmare Alley(Production Design ) will likely go unrecognised if the 94th Academy Awards show sticks with its decision to focus on categories where genre film has traditionally been ignored . By pre - record these accolade categories the Academy is signaling that these accolade are less prestigious , important , or even engaging , which is an vilification reckon that these awards celebrate the craft of filmmaking itself and the details that go into the production behind the picture and behind the camera .
By stand by the selection to eliminate the live broadcast of the categories where musical genre plastic film excels , the Academy peril to alien the filmgoers who love films twelvemonth - round , not just at awards time of year . ( That Twitter awardisn’t start to facilitate , either . ) There is still prison term for the Academy to reverse this decision . In 2018 , the Academy announced that several statuettes would be awarded off - air , but quickly recalled the decision due to monumental industry recoil — and the Hollywood Reporter says that the current move is already “ get tension within the leadership of the Academy . ”
As presently as this news dropped , film Twitter come to the defense of these class , making # PresentAll23 style . Daily Dot columnistGavia Baker - Whitlawwas prompt to prompt people that Oscar fan really want to see the whole show , unedited , uncut , and live . Besides the fact that people who learn the Oscars religiously are interested in the entire show as a piece of performance , musical genre film lover will be left out in the cold as their faves are give the sack because of a program that is pre - recorded and then cut , potentially at the expense of genre filmmakers .
It feels a little wild to have to amount to the defense of genre films , as if they do n’t make the most money , revolutionize the most virulent fandoms , consistently push filmmaking ahead on a craft tier , and create catholicity through metaphor , but here we are . Science fiction and fantasy pic are good film , at time even great . While Hollywood might not be quick to give Villeneuve top honors , Dune deserves to take its every moment in the limelight just as much as The Power of the Dog , the only film on the agenda that receive more nominations ( 12 ) than the Frank Herbert adaptation . Eliminating those eight categories from the springy broadcast will immensely under - represent the well - merit recognition that scientific discipline fiction and fantasy movie receive at the Oscars , and will let down all film fans .
The Oscars will air out March 27 on ABC .
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