Oscars bans AI actors and writing from awards
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The academy that controls the Oscars on Friday issued new award eligibility requirements around the use of artificial intelligence in film.
  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Good.

    Too bad foreign films rarely can. Japan has been kicking Disney’s asses for years in the world of animation, but are rarely regarded. Furthermore, animated films must compete in the animation category, which is typically Disney’s participation trophy.

    Furthermore, the Academy doesn’t sit around and watch movies. Nominations are bought, not earned. They’re not even bought, they’re bid upon. So there are only so many slots, and the top donors are picked. The academy (which includes a lot of people) then watch the nominated films (optionally — IIRC, they are not required to; at most, required to say they did) and then they vote. I’m not sure if it’s majority rule/first past the post or if there’s a higher board that takes the vote into consideration and decides. It’s not exactly an open process, but when there’s some bullshit, tea gets spilt and we hear things. Like when Brokeback Mountain lost to Crash for best picture… like… I thought Crash was a cool little “tall tale urban fantasy movie”, like Forrest Gump or Big Fish but with the LAPD and social issues… I would never have nominated it for best picture. Fun movie, kinda dumb, definitely not an award winner. Brokeback had gay sex though, and apparently word came down from on high that it could not be allowed to win best picture. So it didn’t. I don’t think anybody seriously considers Crash to be the better film here, except maybe for homophobes. (And to them I say, Brokeback actually had more T&A/straight sex than gay stuff. It had like one awkward gay sex scene near the beginning, and then it was mostly straight (albeit lavender) sex from then on out. If you can get past that one scene, it’s actually a good film. But not one I need to see again. Whereas Crash I watched a few times. Not because it was better, but because it was dumb fun. A movie to watch with beer and pizza.)

    Anyway, every one of Makoto Shinkai’s last four films could have won Best Picture if not Best Animated. Garden of Words, your name., Weathering With You, and Suzume. But Japan does not typically bid on Oscars. They’d rather spend that money making amazing films the Academy will overlook every time, which ironically shows people how corrupt the Academy really is. You see these amazing films (not just from Shinkai, but from others) and you wonder why they aren’t even getting nominated. It’s because they can’t afford to.