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I've only watched the Awards once in the last 35 years because it was increasingly becoming a bad tv variety show instead of a celebration of the artistry of the industry by those involved in it as opposed to critics and their organizations, most of whom are totally ignorant of what's involved in making a film. Rick Mitchell
Film Editor/Film Historian/Film Director
2. The aura of Hollywood mystery has been diminished by television and the media. When you can tune into Inside Edition and see your favorite or not so favorite celebrity at any given time, what's the point of watching the Oscars. Unlike the old days of Hollywood, the public has the stars shoved down their throat on a daily basis in some form or another. I haven't watched in years, in my opinion, the Oscars should return to the industry only event that it used to be.
3. Oscars? What are those?
4. The broadcasting of the awards is interesting to movie fans, but the "red carpet" is the big show that everyone tunes in to see. We all want to see the stars interviewed. It gives us a chance to see if they can carry on a conversation without a script. A lot of them can NOT. That's interesting. Some one once told me that thinking people can't be "directed". Perhaps that's why most of the stars are not interviewed.
5. Some have suggested that all the technical awards be handed out before, like the scientific ones. A friend involved in Hollywood, mentioned that the people that really make movies happen are the sound, set, cinematography, special effects, etc. people. His comments made me rethink this. However, turning the awards into a show with all the egos in borrowed dresses parading in, could be eliminated. Simply hand out the awards in an hour and skip all the production numbers might be the way to go. It is possible to READ about it in the newspaper or internet later.
6. So the ceremony is a little bit staid. So what? That's where the fun is. Besides, somewhere in the middle of all that, we got a glimmer of the art of cinema and the craft of movie making. A pox on nervous marketers and TV executives catching cold every time the "preferred demographic" sneezes and stumbling all over themselves guessing how to please people with little taste and a short attention span. They'll find ways to cheapen the Oscars to the point of absolute ludicrousness. Then there won't be any Oscars to worry about because nobody will care.
7. Right. That's why no one watches the show, and why the ratings are always so low.
8. The Oscars are not for ratings or even agrandizement of the participants. It is to sell DVDs of the winner's films, and sometimes the winners even get a bounce in the theaters. Even though ratings are down, the ads still sell for the time spots. So the only losers are the TV fans who have to sit through performance of bad songs nomonated which disappear as soon as the Oscars are over.
Submitted by: Rick Mitchell
2. The aura of Hollywood mystery has been diminished by television and the media. When you can tune into Inside Edition and see your favorite or not so favorite celebrity at any given time, what's the point of watching the Oscars. Unlike the old days of Hollywood, the public has the stars shoved down their throat on a daily basis in some form or another. I haven't watched in years, in my opinion, the Oscars should return to the industry only event that it used to be.
Submitted by: Veejay
3. Oscars? What are those?
Submitted by: Lauren Palmer
4. The broadcasting of the awards is interesting to movie fans, but the "red carpet" is the big show that everyone tunes in to see. We all want to see the stars interviewed. It gives us a chance to see if they can carry on a conversation without a script. A lot of them can NOT. That's interesting. Some one once told me that thinking people can't be "directed". Perhaps that's why most of the stars are not interviewed.
Submitted by: Jim Pardee
5. Some have suggested that all the technical awards be handed out before, like the scientific ones. A friend involved in Hollywood, mentioned that the people that really make movies happen are the sound, set, cinematography, special effects, etc. people. His comments made me rethink this. However, turning the awards into a show with all the egos in borrowed dresses parading in, could be eliminated. Simply hand out the awards in an hour and skip all the production numbers might be the way to go. It is possible to READ about it in the newspaper or internet later.
Submitted by: Fenny
6. So the ceremony is a little bit staid. So what? That's where the fun is. Besides, somewhere in the middle of all that, we got a glimmer of the art of cinema and the craft of movie making. A pox on nervous marketers and TV executives catching cold every time the "preferred demographic" sneezes and stumbling all over themselves guessing how to please people with little taste and a short attention span. They'll find ways to cheapen the Oscars to the point of absolute ludicrousness. Then there won't be any Oscars to worry about because nobody will care.
Submitted by: Feedback
7. Right. That's why no one watches the show, and why the ratings are always so low.
Submitted by: Dutch Shea Jr
8. The Oscars are not for ratings or even agrandizement of the participants. It is to sell DVDs of the winner's films, and sometimes the winners even get a bounce in the theaters. Even though ratings are down, the ads still sell for the time spots. So the only losers are the TV fans who have to sit through performance of bad songs nomonated which disappear as soon as the Oscars are over.
Submitted by: Frank666
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