I've never understood this belief within the AMPAS that 'popular' and 'best' can't exist in the same space. Hell - to one person, "Citizen Kane" is the greatest film of all time, and to another it's a movie about a rich fat bastard and his sled. It's all subjective.
On Friday, September 7, 2018 at 9:09:17 AM UTC-4, PGage wrote: > > Good. Among the many things that makes this proposed category odious is > that it was designed to reduce pressure on the Academy to nominate Black > Panther as a legitimate Best Picture film. I detest the idea of a “Least > Bad Blockbuster”, but would love to see them recognize excellent genre > films more than middlebrow cliched traditional Oscar bait. > > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 10:12 PM Steve Timko <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> They have pulled back on the popular Oscar, at least for now. >> >> LINK >> <https://variety.com/2018/film/awards/academy-retreats-on-popular-oscar-category-for-now-1202930117/> >> > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
