The Lego Movie deserved an animation nomination since it was creative and well made film earning a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. David Fincher should have been nominated for Best Director or Gone Girl maybe should have received a Best Editing nomination and especially Best Adapted Screenplay. While Bradley Cooper got a nomination for his oscar bait, mediocre film, American Sniper, Jake Gyllenhaal was forgotten for his excellent role in Nightcrawler. American Sniper did not deserve any of it's nominations. It was a decent film at most, but 6 nominations is beyond excessive. The two biggest disappointments were Interstellar and Selma because they were evidently snubbed. Interstellar completely deserves more than nominations for technical awards. The fact that it wasn't nominated for Best Original Screenplay is downright insulting, let alone other nominations it should have received. Additionally Selma only received two nominations yet this movie is a beautiful cinematic masterpiece. The outrage from it being snubbed even started the #OscarSoWhite hashtag on Twitter. It's hard to disagree when the best actors and directors are all white men, and most of the best pictures nominees are about white men with complicated genius profiles.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
2015 Oscar Nominees
The oscar nominees were announced about a week ago. Here is the full list of all the nominees and categories. The list contains multiple disappointments. This year has clear oscar bait films. Some nominations are: American Sniper, The Theory Of Everything, Selma, Birdman, Boyhood, Whiplash, and The Imitation Game, and the Grand Budapest Hotel were nominated for Best Picture. Alejandro G. Iñárritu - Birdmad, Richard Linklater - Boyhood, Bennet Miller - Foxcatcher, Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel, and Morten Tyldum - The Imitation Game, were nominated for Best Director. Steve Carell, Bradley Cooper, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Keaton, and Eddie Redmayne were nominated for Best Actor.
The Lego Movie deserved an animation nomination since it was creative and well made film earning a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. David Fincher should have been nominated for Best Director or Gone Girl maybe should have received a Best Editing nomination and especially Best Adapted Screenplay. While Bradley Cooper got a nomination for his oscar bait, mediocre film, American Sniper, Jake Gyllenhaal was forgotten for his excellent role in Nightcrawler. American Sniper did not deserve any of it's nominations. It was a decent film at most, but 6 nominations is beyond excessive. The two biggest disappointments were Interstellar and Selma because they were evidently snubbed. Interstellar completely deserves more than nominations for technical awards. The fact that it wasn't nominated for Best Original Screenplay is downright insulting, let alone other nominations it should have received. Additionally Selma only received two nominations yet this movie is a beautiful cinematic masterpiece. The outrage from it being snubbed even started the #OscarSoWhite hashtag on Twitter. It's hard to disagree when the best actors and directors are all white men, and most of the best pictures nominees are about white men with complicated genius profiles.
Oscars (January 15, 2015), Nominees-the 87th Academy Award Nominations for the 2014 Oscars; Retrieved from: http://oscar.go.com/nominees
The Lego Movie deserved an animation nomination since it was creative and well made film earning a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. David Fincher should have been nominated for Best Director or Gone Girl maybe should have received a Best Editing nomination and especially Best Adapted Screenplay. While Bradley Cooper got a nomination for his oscar bait, mediocre film, American Sniper, Jake Gyllenhaal was forgotten for his excellent role in Nightcrawler. American Sniper did not deserve any of it's nominations. It was a decent film at most, but 6 nominations is beyond excessive. The two biggest disappointments were Interstellar and Selma because they were evidently snubbed. Interstellar completely deserves more than nominations for technical awards. The fact that it wasn't nominated for Best Original Screenplay is downright insulting, let alone other nominations it should have received. Additionally Selma only received two nominations yet this movie is a beautiful cinematic masterpiece. The outrage from it being snubbed even started the #OscarSoWhite hashtag on Twitter. It's hard to disagree when the best actors and directors are all white men, and most of the best pictures nominees are about white men with complicated genius profiles.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Major Distribution Companies of the Motion Picture Industry
This article talks about specific motion picture distribution companies, and the power of these companies. A distribution company often finances a product and distributes it to the public. Viacom, and Time Warner Inc., Fox Entertainment Group, The Walt Disney Company, Universal Studios Group, and Sony Corporation are the 6 largest distribution companies for motion pictures.
Viacom includes Paramount Pictures which is one of the first major motion picture studios. They have released Forrest Gump, The Godfather, and the Ten Commandments.
Time Warner Inc. is one of the largest entertainment conglomerations. Some subsets include Warner Brothers, and New Line Cinema which are "two of the leading motion picture distribution companies existing today."
Fox Entertainment Group is involved in development, production, and worldwide distribution of films, and tv programs. One of this subsets is Twentieth Century Fox Film which has released Star Wars Episode 1, and Entrapment.
The Walt Disney Company has expanded drastically from cartoons to now even vacation resorts. Miramax is a distribution company owned by Disney . Oversees, Buena Vista International is responsible for distributing Disney films. Buena Vista has also released Pulp Fiction, Life is Beautiful, and the Sixth Sense to name some.
Universal Studios Group is one of the largest entertainment companies in the nation. Within it Universal Pictures represents the films. It often works closely with Jersey Films.
Sony Corporation is one of the largest international corporations. From movies, tv, video, dvd, cable, music and electronics. Within this company, films are represented by Sony Pictures Entertainment, and it works closely with Columbia Pictures and Tri-Star Pictures.
"The power of the industry is very much dominated in the distribution companies, for the product, the film, can not be completely produced without the finances and influence of the distribution company. These vast entertainment conglomerates very much dominate the industry because they do have more clout with theater owners and TV networks...They can offer brand name recognition to the viewer, and have more connections to the creative talent and experience with effective management." Cleary, distribution companies hold immense power of the content that they wish to distribute and how the public will view it.
Major Distribution Companies of the Motion Picture Industry; Retrieved from: http://www.soc.duke.edu/~s142tm05/corporate.htm#whatisadistributioncompany
Viacom includes Paramount Pictures which is one of the first major motion picture studios. They have released Forrest Gump, The Godfather, and the Ten Commandments.
Time Warner Inc. is one of the largest entertainment conglomerations. Some subsets include Warner Brothers, and New Line Cinema which are "two of the leading motion picture distribution companies existing today."
Fox Entertainment Group is involved in development, production, and worldwide distribution of films, and tv programs. One of this subsets is Twentieth Century Fox Film which has released Star Wars Episode 1, and Entrapment.
The Walt Disney Company has expanded drastically from cartoons to now even vacation resorts. Miramax is a distribution company owned by Disney . Oversees, Buena Vista International is responsible for distributing Disney films. Buena Vista has also released Pulp Fiction, Life is Beautiful, and the Sixth Sense to name some.
Universal Studios Group is one of the largest entertainment companies in the nation. Within it Universal Pictures represents the films. It often works closely with Jersey Films.
Sony Corporation is one of the largest international corporations. From movies, tv, video, dvd, cable, music and electronics. Within this company, films are represented by Sony Pictures Entertainment, and it works closely with Columbia Pictures and Tri-Star Pictures.
"The power of the industry is very much dominated in the distribution companies, for the product, the film, can not be completely produced without the finances and influence of the distribution company. These vast entertainment conglomerates very much dominate the industry because they do have more clout with theater owners and TV networks...They can offer brand name recognition to the viewer, and have more connections to the creative talent and experience with effective management." Cleary, distribution companies hold immense power of the content that they wish to distribute and how the public will view it.
Major Distribution Companies of the Motion Picture Industry; Retrieved from: http://www.soc.duke.edu/~s142tm05/corporate.htm#whatisadistributioncompany
Friday, January 9, 2015
Bias in Oscar Nominated Films
This article talks about the bias in Oscar nominated films. (The key thing to note is that it is bias) It has an extensive chart of the the movies that were nominated and which genre they were in. The conclusion of this article is that there seems to be a pattern of the movies that officially win best picture. A series of factors such as "the release date of the film (late in the year is best), whether or not it was distributed by a major studio, and whether the actors, writers, and directors of the film have previous Oscar nominations. Another factor is the theme or content of the film -- which is represented by the film's genre and its major plot keywords (such as "Pulitzer Prize-winning" or "family tragedy" or "race relations")."
General trends that I found were interesting were that "studio pictures with big stars - are much preferred over quirky independent films." Additionally "science-fiction films don't win the Best Picture award. " This was surprising considered that science fiction has many films under this category. Great movies such as District 9, and 2001: A space Odyssey. Interstellar was released late last year and I believe it was one of the best movies of 2014. The fact that science fiction movies don't win and it is typically always drama films that do can hinder some filmmakers away from science fiction. Maybe drama films are better or maybe there is a hidden agenda within the Oscar community.
Tim Durks (2013), Academy Awards Best Picture Genre Biases. Retrieved from http://www.filmsite.org/bestpics2.html.
General trends that I found were interesting were that "studio pictures with big stars - are much preferred over quirky independent films." Additionally "science-fiction films don't win the Best Picture award. " This was surprising considered that science fiction has many films under this category. Great movies such as District 9, and 2001: A space Odyssey. Interstellar was released late last year and I believe it was one of the best movies of 2014. The fact that science fiction movies don't win and it is typically always drama films that do can hinder some filmmakers away from science fiction. Maybe drama films are better or maybe there is a hidden agenda within the Oscar community.
Tim Durks (2013), Academy Awards Best Picture Genre Biases. Retrieved from http://www.filmsite.org/bestpics2.html.
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