Comments on: Academy Still Misses the Point As They Cut Honorary Awards from the Oscars Telecast http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/academy-still-misses-the-point-as-they-cut-honorary-awards-from-the-oscars-telecast The best and latest movie news, reviews, features and editorials - updated daily Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:17:58 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: GregM http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/academy-still-misses-the-point-as-they-cut-honorary-awards-from-the-oscars-telecast#comment-20789 GregM Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:04:35 +0000 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=17783#comment-20789 @<a href="#comment-20731" rel="nofollow">Patricia</a>: I can't think of a more fitting way to honour the entertainment industry than one night, The night, dedicated to entertainment. I do agree with you regarding the slippery slope of mollification (that's what you get for making me look up "placate"!). @Patricia: I can't think of a more fitting way to honour the entertainment industry than one night, The night, dedicated to entertainment. I do agree with you regarding the slippery slope of mollification (that's what you get for making me look up "placate"!).

]]> By: GregM http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/academy-still-misses-the-point-as-they-cut-honorary-awards-from-the-oscars-telecast#comment-20788 GregM Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:55:35 +0000 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=17783#comment-20788 I've always liked the honourary awards, especially when they introduce me to someone I don't know much about. What I never understood is why the Academy announces the recipients prior to the show; everything is so secretive except the honourary awards. Obviously the winner has to know before hand in order to ensure attendance be I don't need to know. Speaking of secretive, I could really do without the 'here's how we count votes' portion of the show. Leave the PwC ads for the Oscar website. I've always liked the honourary awards, especially when they introduce me to someone I don't know much about. What I never understood is why the Academy announces the recipients prior to the show; everything is so secretive except the honourary awards. Obviously the winner has to know before hand in order to ensure attendance be I don't need to know.

Speaking of secretive, I could really do without the 'here's how we count votes' portion of the show. Leave the PwC ads for the Oscar website.

]]> By: Patricia http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/academy-still-misses-the-point-as-they-cut-honorary-awards-from-the-oscars-telecast#comment-20731 Patricia Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:25:46 +0000 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/?p=17783#comment-20731 I think the Board of Governors is a rudderless ship. They seem to have lost their sense of mission. Are they about an award show or about the awards? Are they about entertaining for one night or honoring the entertainment industry? They seem to be retooling to placate the public. Once you go that route it's a never ending journey. People are always going to be ticked off that their favorite film didn't win or get nominated, even if that film was a noisy effort to make money or an overintellectualized drama clearly made just to garner awards. And who is to blame for this conundrum? The awards have gotten to be more about publicity and PR campaigns. If they want to address something, they should be addressing that. I think the Board of Governors is a rudderless ship. They seem to have lost their sense of mission. Are they about an award show or about the awards? Are they about entertaining for one night or honoring the entertainment industry?

They seem to be retooling to placate the public. Once you go that route it's a never ending journey. People are always going to be ticked off that their favorite film didn't win or get nominated, even if that film was a noisy effort to make money or an overintellectualized drama clearly made just to garner awards.

And who is to blame for this conundrum? The awards have gotten to be more about publicity and PR campaigns. If they want to address something, they should be addressing that.

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