The Academy said “NO” to Oscar bait movies this year. What went right?

[Smarticle]

6 minutes ago, suburbannature said:

Clearly you haven't seen Tar or Blonde if you think those are Oscar bait films  

I mean I haven't seen Blonde but a biopic of one of Hollywood's most popular stars is not Oscar bait? 

[suburbannature]

9 minutes ago, Smarticle said:

I mean I haven't seen Blonde but a biopic of one of Hollywood's most popular stars is not Oscar bait? 

Watch it and/or read the book and you'll see

[Smarticle]

1 minute ago, suburbannature said:

Watch it and/or read the book and you'll see

I mean it's fiction but so was Spencer and that was awards bait too 

[suburbannature]

19 minutes ago, Smarticle said:

I mean it's fiction but so was Spencer and that was awards bait too 

Larrain's Spencer was NOT awards bait pls. And Blonde was even less.

 

Oscar bait is generic, vanilla, crowd-pleasing fare with a sense of "importance." Blonde and Spencer took atypical, episodic, sometimes twisted approaches to their subject matter at the risk of isolating audiences. 

 

 

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[Blade Runner]

35 minutes ago, Smarticle said:

I mean I haven't seen Blonde but a biopic of one of Hollywood's most popular stars is not Oscar bait? 

You're in for a WILD ride then. Watch at least the first 20 min and then come back here. 

[Smarticle]

22 minutes ago, suburbannature said:

Larrain's Spencer was NOT awards bait pls. And Blonde was even less.

 

Oscar bait is generic, vanilla, crowd-pleasing fare with a sense of "importance." Blonde and Spencer took atypical, episodic, sometimes twisted approaches to their subject matter at the risk of isolating audiences. 

 

 

 

16 minutes ago, Blade Runner said:

You're in for a WILD ride then. Watch at least the first 20 min and then come back here. 

I don't think I'll be convinced that these tragic biopic stories are not awards bait 

 

They might add some artistic flair to them but the well known tragic story in itself is as awards bait as a war movie 

[fridayteenage]

no, a movie can be both awards bait and great.

 

for example, schindler's list. 

[Enrique523]

9 hours ago, Mr.Link said:

The Whale was specifically made as Oscar bait. They even casted the specific guy for it. I wonder what’s the next minority/“underdog” group they will try to milk as Oscar bait in next year’s edition. 
 

I mean Moonlight-> Green Book->Parasite ->CODA -> EEAAO

 

and people dare say there’s no agenda

"Agenda" oh please as if Hollywood hasn't had an anti-minority agenda for almost a century before that 

 

Is it THAT hard for you to acknowledge that most of those movies are just... great movies deserving of the Oscar? Parasite and EEAAO in particular have both been cultural phenomenons in their own ways.

 

Funny how people consider the idea of an "agenda" problematic ONLY when its minorities benefiting, i wonder why that is 

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[Guest]

EEAAO has a chacaracter called raccacoonie, how in hell is that oscar bait? 

[Guest]

13 hours ago, Smarticle said:

I mean I haven't seen Blonde but a biopic of one of Hollywood's most popular stars is not Oscar bait? 

The only reason Ana was nominated was all the Netflix Payola. Tang Wei or Viola Davis should've gotten that nom

[Mr.Link]

12 hours ago, Enrique523 said:

Is it THAT hard for you to acknowledge that most of those movies are just... great movies deserving of the Oscar? Parasite and EEAAO in particular have both been cultural phenomenons in their own ways.

Nowhere did I say they don’t deserve anything or that they’re bad in any way but let’s call a spade a spade and accept there’s a liberal agenda fishing for minority representation to reward because it makes award shows look “correct” and “woke” to the GP and Twitter warriors. Imagine the outrage if Cate had won best actress, Twitter would be revolting right now and the media would be crucifying her for winning something she actually deserved. Even Michelle herself played that card the day before. 

[CaptainMusic]

5 minutes ago, Mr.Link said:

winning something she actually deserved. 

Many critics associations, SAG, ISA, the Oscars and the GP all disagree sorry. Michelle deserved her win but of course you’re one of those people who think that white people always deserve their wins, while minorities only ever win because of agendas. Typical. 
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The Oscars are still trash but this was a nice change of pace, nothing about EEAAO is Oscar bait especially compared to films like The Whale. 

[Mr.Link]

2 hours ago, CaptainMusic said:

you’re one of those people who think that white people always deserve their wins, while minorities only ever win because of agendas

The gaslighting  if there’s no “agenda” then explain to me why Moonlight, Green Book, Parasite, CODA and EEAAO sweeped the Oscar’s in the last few years? And we could even throw Roma, Minari, Black Panther, CMBYN, Get Out and Fences into the mix and the list goes on and this is literally just the last 7 years. All of that after the #OscarsSoWhite scandal. Again, I’m not saying these are not good but to say there’s no agenda is blatant delusion and denial. 

 

[eclipsed]

i thought this year in film kinda sucked? it was a good year for horror but out of the BP nominees that i saw i didn't think any were particularly remarkable. EEAAO was definitely the one that stood out the most so i'm glad it swept.

 

 

[Mr. Blue_Shirt]

23 hours ago, Enrique523 said:

"Agenda" oh please as if Hollywood hasn't had an anti-minority agenda for almost a century before that 

 

Is it THAT hard for you to acknowledge that most of those movies are just... great movies deserving of the Oscar? Parasite and EEAAO in particular have both been cultural phenomenons in their own ways.

 

Funny how people consider the idea of an "agenda" problematic ONLY when its minorities benefiting, i wonder why that is 

It's wild how people still using the word "agenda" just because the films aren't centered around cis straight white people like the "the good ol days" anymore 

 

The dog whistles aren't dog whistling anymore 

[Khal]

A few bait-y films still got noms this year, just because they didn't win due to EEAAO being such a force doesn't mean the Academy is over them. We'll see how the next few awards season play out.

[Enrique523]

2 hours ago, Mr. Blue_Shirt said:

It's wild how people still using the word "agenda" just because the films aren't centered around cis straight white people like the "the good ol days" anymore 

 

The dog whistles aren't dog whistling anymore 

Yep, we live in a post-Trump world and as a result, more and more people don't feel like they need to use dog whistles anymore, it's just open bigotry at this point.

[Daddy]

On 3/13/2023 at 5:02 AM, Take Me Apart said:

EEAO is oscar bait written by redditors

Nobody thought about an Oscar while making this movie. Be for real

[Relampago.]

EEAAO was a good movie, a little overrated, but good

 

But the Parasite slander in here has to stop, that movie was nothing short of a masterpiece. Kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time. One of the greatest Best Picture winners of all time.