This week Hollywood announced that as from 2024 to win the Best Picture Oscar you will need to meet certain criteria involving "under represented groups".
Hollywood has been woke for a while, full of lefty luvvies preaching down to the plebs for a while, using the Oscars as a virtue signalling platform, jumping on the racist bandwagon and apologising for being white (but not for being rich funny enough!)
Just to put the new rules into perspective let's look at the list of 2019 nominees:
Ford v Ferrari would not be eligible.
The Irishman would not be eligible.
Jojo Rabbit might scrape in.
Joker would not be eligible.
Little Women should be eligible.
Marriage Story probably not eligible.
1917 would not be eligible.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood would not be eligible.
Parasite (the winner) should be eligible, shouldn't it?
So what about some of the winner's from the last 20 years:
Gladiaitor? A Beautiful Mind? Lord of the Rings? No Country for Old Men? The King's Speech? Argo? Spotlight?
What this actually means is that as of 2024 the Best Picture Oscar will probably be a token participant award given to whoever ticks the most boxes, and I'm going to make a prediction here, virtually none of the nominees will be box office successes.
The Oscars have become less relevant in the 21st Century, the viewing figures world wide have virtually halved from 42.9 million in 2001 to and all time low this year of 23.6 million, says it all really, people are bored of it all.
So are we going to be seeing the big studios trying to win awards by making box ticking movies, or, once they realise they're losing money, making movies that appeal to the majority and allow mediocre films to gain the diluted prestige of the Oscar Best Film award, only time will tell!
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