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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I feel bad ragging on Nadal Fan, I know he's just a dedicated fanboy, but I find it entirely hilarious when people call a film an "Oscar Winner" for the absolutely most minor and insignificant and largely unrelated to the quality of the film Oscars out there.
"Oh, you didn't like Suicide Squad? Well, it's an Oscar winning film, so it obviously has some merit."
"Cool, what for?"
"....Hair and Makeup..."
Like nobody gives a #### about that Oscar. When you think of "Oscar winning film" you think of the movies that won Best Picture, or Best Director, or Best Script, or something really essential to the overall quality of the movie. When you see that some terrible turd of a movie won an Oscar, it's ALWAYS Hair and Makeup, or Production Design, or Costumes, or whatever. The "nice looking characters and sets" Oscars. Even worse might be best original song. It's literally for a good song, it has nothing to do with the quality of the rest of the movie.
The Oscars are stupid for a hundred other reasons, so "it's an Oscar winner!" is already a bit questionable as it is. But some awards... come on bro. Nobody is coming to the defence of Bond movies because they've won Oscars.
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There's a reason why even WB doesn't market their movies as Oscar winners. That is usually reserved for acting, directing or writing awards.
Nobody is running an ad campaign on TV trying to market a movie for winning "best sound editing".
It's also the reason why the sound, makeup and production awards tend to ignore crap movies, even if they are deserving. Those awards usually go to period pieces. Why? Well because it dilutes the Oscar brand and prestige if Suicide Squad is marketed as an Academy Award winning film.
That being said, they have shown some love towards the tentpoles in those sound/production categories recently but it is usually limited to 1 or 2 categories and is almost never used as a marketing tool as by the studio.
I'm convinced it is part of their campaigns and bribes to academy voters. Disney/WB is like "hey, let Suicide Squad (or whatever) win best sound design and we promise we won't start running tv commercials claiming our film is an Oscar Winner, by the way, here's your briefcase full of money."