Hi everyone....I've finally started blogging and what better way to start than to express about something I'm totally passionate about....the MOVIES....
Well, today what I want to talk about is this year's Academy Awards at LA. We all know that 'Inception' & 'The King's Speech' walked away with 4 Oscars a piece....with the major big ones swept by the latter. Then a thought struck me - was it a way of the Academy to make Inception not totally left out since Christopher Nolan the genius behind the mind boggling film was snubbed in the coveted Best Director category?
The Academy has done errors before...lets not get into that now.....but overall it was an Award Ceremony that gave the statuettes to those who rightfully deserved it.....
Clearly Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale were the obvious winners in the Acting Category and there were no surprises....what seemed to be surprising in a lot of previous award ceremonies prior to the Academy Awards was the unprecedented hype of the Facebook story - 'The Social Network' which was sweeping the major awards namely Best Picture and Director and it was at the right time that the odds started favoring towards 'The King's Speech.....and it was a matter of time that the Academy didn't fall for this.....and as they say today history was made with The King's Speech winning 4 out of 12 nods.
Anyway over the years that I've been watching the Award Shows (this time it was after 4 years)...I realized that the credibility in our Indian Film Industry Awards is just not there.....its like merit or rather sheer talent is totally ignored and recognition is given to those films based on box-office collections, and sadly most of the movies which do extremely well at the box-office turn out to be absolutely no-brainers to start off with, they lack a strong story and these films turn out to win the awards here in our country.
Films which are well made, intelligent, have a riveting screenplay and above all seem to be realistic are ignored because they are not able to set the cash registers ringing and so these films lose out in the Awards which they rightfully deserve. This wasn't so in the 60's and 70's of Indian Cinema.
What I'm saying is that we should not emulate the Academy Awards but there should be a certain amount of credibility or rather screening process of nominating films and giving due recognition to the films and filmmakers who make sensible and above all GREAT cinema irrespective of box office business.
Well, today what I want to talk about is this year's Academy Awards at LA. We all know that 'Inception' & 'The King's Speech' walked away with 4 Oscars a piece....with the major big ones swept by the latter. Then a thought struck me - was it a way of the Academy to make Inception not totally left out since Christopher Nolan the genius behind the mind boggling film was snubbed in the coveted Best Director category?
The Academy has done errors before...lets not get into that now.....but overall it was an Award Ceremony that gave the statuettes to those who rightfully deserved it.....
Clearly Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale were the obvious winners in the Acting Category and there were no surprises....what seemed to be surprising in a lot of previous award ceremonies prior to the Academy Awards was the unprecedented hype of the Facebook story - 'The Social Network' which was sweeping the major awards namely Best Picture and Director and it was at the right time that the odds started favoring towards 'The King's Speech.....and it was a matter of time that the Academy didn't fall for this.....and as they say today history was made with The King's Speech winning 4 out of 12 nods.
Anyway over the years that I've been watching the Award Shows (this time it was after 4 years)...I realized that the credibility in our Indian Film Industry Awards is just not there.....its like merit or rather sheer talent is totally ignored and recognition is given to those films based on box-office collections, and sadly most of the movies which do extremely well at the box-office turn out to be absolutely no-brainers to start off with, they lack a strong story and these films turn out to win the awards here in our country.
Films which are well made, intelligent, have a riveting screenplay and above all seem to be realistic are ignored because they are not able to set the cash registers ringing and so these films lose out in the Awards which they rightfully deserve. This wasn't so in the 60's and 70's of Indian Cinema.
What I'm saying is that we should not emulate the Academy Awards but there should be a certain amount of credibility or rather screening process of nominating films and giving due recognition to the films and filmmakers who make sensible and above all GREAT cinema irrespective of box office business.
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