Decision week for Oscar voters always stirs waves of pontification, but, having reached 2020, it may be useful to take a page from Tom Hanks’ ambitious CNN documentary The Movies. He decided to gro…
. The “serious” film critics, however, would insist that the entire list of Oscar contenders is irrelevant; their annual “best picture” favorites consist of films most of us have never seen or heard of.
Indeed, no contenders list this year includes films from two of our most celebrated filmmakers, Woody Allen and Roman Polanski, both of whose work is barred in the U.S. from exhibition. Their exclusion tangentially reminds us of perhaps the most important change in the Oscar criteria – the politics of inclusion and diversity.
In view of this, the controversies of past years seem pedestrian by comparison: In the 1940s studio chiefs set off a rebellion by instructing employees to cast their votes only for studio product – Warner Bros people were required to vote for Warner Bros films, or risk the wrath of the Warner brothers.
Much later, a rebellion was triggered by the blatant electioneering by Harvey Weinstein, favoring films like
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