The celebrated filmmaker has more important things on his mind. It's all well and good to enjoy the pageantry of the Academy Awards. It's a TV ratings event. It's a big PR grab for the industry. But one of the sad by-products of its meaningless hype generation is reinforcing the belief that movies can and should be compared against one another in competition for "best." A piece on IndieWire reveals that Ryan Coogler not only agrees with this but sees other issues with the whole Oscar endeavor as well. In a way, he says, it undermines everything pure and good about the pursuit of the craft. Movies all operate by their own rules, for their own metrics of success. Ultimately, they are a business and/or an art form. But the Academy Awards celebrate neither thing. It creates a whole new internal and elitist subjecting judgment system. But there is another far more egregious downside to the Oscars. As we've seen recently with the HFPA and their failure to have a single Black person on their voting board, representation and diversity in these awards shows are sorely lacking. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 2 April, 2021