Well I guess you did sum up everything everyone dislikes about the Oscars nowadays, that's for sure.
Unfortunately most of the garbage that gets nominated or wins nowadays has hardly any true artistic merit compared to the truly outstanding films that showcase movies as an art medium but they have little or no audience and would never get a sniff at being nominated. If you're going to talk about movies as art, the Oscars probably isn't the right place to make that argument.
It's this problem that mainstream, entertaining and action oriented equals bad, not thought provoking or artistic that is the problem.
This isn't just about nominating the most artistic movie, or at least it shouldn't be, that's why people complain. Movies are so much more than a purely thought provoking medium. They should evoke emotion and that's not always purely the result of movies devoid of action, predictability, special effects etc.
I hope the academy can find a happy medium where films with little entertainment value but high on the artistic merit can find a place alongside films that focus more on emotion and entertainment. If they want something that can appeal to at least some of the general public, then moving beyond the hilarious movie snobbery is gonna be necessary.
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