[ SECRET POST #2941 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2941 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag]


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[Fire Emblem: Awakening]


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[Hannibal, Richard Armitage]


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[The Hobbit]


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[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]


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[Doctor Who]












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Comments

[iggy]

Best Animated Movie exists because they were tired of people complaining about animated movies never being nominated in the big categories, so they gave them their own. It's stupid and it gives them an excuse to ignore when animated films really are good enough to stand among the big guns.

Visual effects should absolutely be an award. Those guys work their asses off, and they deserve to win Oscars for that.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not saying visual effects don't deserve praise for grinding their fingers to the bone to make things look amazing.

But I am saying that cramming all of the superhero movies into that one category alone as a form of inclusion is bullshit.

[iggy]

I imagine most of them legitimately deserve the nomination though? The fact is a ton of the big budget heavy special effect films these day just happen to be superhero movies.

[othellia]

The Oscar's Best Picture category is pretty like the Literary Fiction and/or Classics section of the bookstore. If you have any sort of genre leanings, you pretty much have to have the clout of, like, Frankenstein to get recognized.

That's still not the best metaphor since the Oscars are obviously a yearly thing and the Literary Fiction section is not, but yeah. Same point applies.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was invented after Beauty and the Beast won the Best Picture award and Hollywood threw a fit?

[(Anonymous)]

It only got nominated, it didn't win. Other than that, though, yeah.

[iggy]

Beauty and the Beast didn't win (Silence of the Lambs did), and it was an entire decade after it was nominated that the award came to be. It's because there was growing pressure among the general public, journalists, etc., to actually acknowledge animated films, so they sequestered them off in their own category so they would be doing so without giving them the credit they sometimes actually deserve.

Then when they widened the best picture field to ten nominees, they threw a couple of bones to animation in the form of best pic noms for Toy Story 3 and Up, but rest assured they were never actually in the running regardless of their quality level.