How would you fix the Academy Awards?

[Super_Ludacris]

There was nothing wrong with Stewart, dude got great reviews. smh@ people so desperate for Conan to be mainstream.

 

[Super_Ludacris]

You suck, sorry, no explanation is needed when you make a stupid statement like that.

Ironically his reason is the reason why many people thought no one watched the show if you read the papers and the online articles yesterday. Most people didnt know about No Country and Blood until like a month ago. I mean thats not saying I agree with him at all, but as horrible as it sounds.......that was kinda reason no one watched.

 

[odiin]

What I would change would actually be the voting process itself. I know that the whole Super delegate thing gets a lot of flack in the democratic primaries, but I think something like that could work in the Academy awards:

In order to prevent a repeat of 2005 where the voters where Crash won best picture because the voters were split on the other movies, there should be a special council of like 9 randomly selected voting members who discuss all the movies face to face like a jury until at least 2/3 of them can agree on one movie to put forward as their selection, and then their vote counts for like 5-10% of the total which would eliminate the chances of one relatively crappy film getting through because people couldn't choose between the 4 good ones.

 

[Movies205]

Ironically his reason is the reason why many people thought no one watched the show if you read the papers and the online articles yesterday. Most people didnt know about No Country and Blood until like a month ago. I mean thats not saying I agree with him at all, but as horrible as it sounds.......that was kinda reason no one watched.

I'm not disagreeing on whether people care or not but the truth of matter is that shouldn't matter, it's not the Oscars fault that people can't appreciate good movies.

 

[odiin]

Not the general public. Juno was the ONLY movie people have seen of the five movies nominated. No wonder when Titanic was nominated it was the highest rated Oscar telecast.

Yes. Lets nominate inferior movies simply so we can get higher ratings on the television.

 

[terry78]

Well, last year people were all up on Departed's nuts, and every year there's that one movie that garners controversy, like Brokeback, etc. This year we just had Juno to be honest. And middle America ain't all into the artsy-fartsy stuff that wins awards.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

I don't think there is much that needs fixing. While there are times where I disagree with the decision that the Academy makes, it is still much preferable to practically any other award show out there. We don't need the Oscars to turn into a complete farce like the People's Choice Awards.

 

[KenK]

Add "Best Stuntwork" to the technical Oscars. Those guys deserve major accolades, seeing has how several stunt performers have died for their profession. The risk, and their dedication needs recognition.

 

[Figs]

One thing I can think of to change is to get rid of those god damn musicals.

Were watching to see who wins and whatnot. Why in the holy hell must they waste time showing some lame ass showtunes?!!?

It's because of **** like that that they said they only had time to show 50 out of I'm sure many more film makers/actors who passed away last year.

That and rushing people on their speeches...only use the band if their really getting carried away. Other than that give them some decent time at least.

 

[cerealkiller182]

Add "Best Stuntwork" to the technical Oscars. Those guys deserve major accolades, seeing has how several stunt performers have died for their profession. The risk, and their dedication needs recognition.

They talked about putting it in the big show but "talking heads" were talking about how the show was already to long. I think editing and maybe sound should be moved to the technical awards to make room for stuntwork since the general audience can prolly gauge it better. Like Stewart said when the editing award was handed out, "Someone just got the lead in their Oscar pool on a guess"

 

[Drizzle]

Add "Best Stuntwork" to the technical Oscars. Those guys deserve major accolades, seeing has how several stunt performers have died for their profession. The risk, and their dedication needs recognition.

I agree. Stuntwork is a much more important category than some of the ones they already have, like Best Sound Editing. BTW, why can't they just combine Best Sound and Best Sound Editing into one category?

 

[terry78]

Because stuntwork implies that you're awarding a non-artsy film. Most flicks that involve stuntwork are lowbrow, according to the higher-ups.

 

[cerealkiller182]

Because stuntwork implies that you're awarding a non-artsy film. Most flicks that involve stuntwork are lowbrow, according to the higher-ups.

Thats the dumbest thing I have ever head. Indiana Jones, Die Hard, War movies,etc are considered great cinema. Stuntwork is a challenging field and deserving of awards. Excluding them is like excluding the writers. Bourne won a bunch of Oscars, it had stuntmen, they would have definitely clinched it. Transformers and Spiderman 2 have been nominated in the past also.

And the higher ups keep making them,so they cant hate them that much

 

[JP]

Either get Billy Crystal to host, or let Conzie Wonzie take a stab at it.

 

[Drizzle]

Yeah, Billy Crystal needs to come back. I love when they digitally insert him into the movies. Unfortunately, more often than not, the dude loves to get naked in those clips(see the 2004 Oscars for reference), but they're still hilarious.

I don't know why some of you are criticizing John Stewart, though. I thought he did better than the first time he hosted, and I also thought he did a better job than both Ellen DeGeneres and Chris Rock. Chris Rock did okay, but the thing people remember most about when he hosted the Oscars is when Sean Penn pwned him about his Jude Law comments. I still remember that.

 

[Figs]

What did Sean Penn say? I don't remember hearing that...probably because Penn is always sticking his nose in others business instead of sticking to what he knows...acting.

 

[terry78]

Thats the dumbest thing I have ever head. Indiana Jones, Die Hard, War movies,etc are considered great cinema. Stuntwork is a challenging field and deserving of awards. Excluding them is like excluding the writers. Bourne won a bunch of Oscars, it had stuntmen, they would have definitely clinched it. Transformers and Spiderman 2 have been nominated in the past also.

And the higher ups keep making them,so they cant hate them that much

What's your theory as to why it's not an award, dude?

 

[Drizzle]

What did Sean Penn say? I don't remember hearing that...probably because Penn is always sticking his nose in others business instead of sticking to what he knows...acting.

Early in the show Chris Rock said something like "Back in the day, we had classy movie stars and now we've got Jude Law! Who is Jude Law anyway, and why is he in every movie?" Nobody laughed.

This pissed Penn off and when he went to the stage later he said something like "In regards to what our host (and he said host with such a grimace on his face too) said earlier, Jude Law is one of our finest actors." The audience applauded.

 

[Figs]

Thanks Drizzle. It's been awhile and I couldn't remember what had gone down. Good part on Penn!

Have to agree that was a really low blow from Chris Rock.

 

[cerealkiller182]

What's your theory as to why it's not an award, dude?

Falling ratings coupled with a growing running time.

Or just like everyone else that works below them, they believe them to be expendable and interchangeable.

I just cant see them skipping it due to the body of work that uses them since those movies still get nominated: Transformers, Spiderman 2, Bourne Identity, Lord of the Rings.

 

[JP]

I enjoyed Ellen immensely. . .

 

[JP]

Early in the show Chris Rock said something like "Back in the day, we had classy movie stars and now we've got Jude Law! Who is Jude Law anyway, and why is he in every movie?" Nobody laughed.

This pissed Penn off and when he went to the stage later he said something like "In regards to what our host (and he said host with such a grimace on his face too) said earlier, Jude Law is one of our finest actors." The audience applauded.

LOL! I do remember a time when Jude Law was in a every damn movie.

 

[chaseter]

There was nothing wrong with Stewart, dude got great reviews. smh@ people so desperate for Conan to be mainstream.

Conan is mainstream And the Colbert Report has surpassed the Daily Show in viewers

 

[DieSmiling]

Thats the dumbest thing I have ever head. Indiana Jones, Die Hard, War movies,etc are considered great cinema. Stuntwork is a challenging field and deserving of awards. Excluding them is like excluding the writers. Bourne won a bunch of Oscars, it had stuntmen, they would have definitely clinched it. Transformers and Spiderman 2 have been nominated in the past also.

And the higher ups keep making them,so they cant hate them that much

LOL... I love Die Hard as much as the next dude, but it doesn't belong in the same sentence as "great cinema."

 

[Drizzle]

LOL! I do remember a time when Jude Law was in a every damn movie.

Yeah, he was like the white Samuel L. Jackson.