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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Announcing Jonathan Lack’s “Dream Academy Awards!” – Nominations Coming Next Week!
The Academy Awards are really, really frustrating.
I could write a whole essay about why they are silly and not worth putting any stock into – remember, even in the best of times, they aren’t definitive, just the opinions of one group of people – but in short, I’ve been growing increasingly aware over the past few years that, more often than not, the Oscars are wrong about pretty much everything.
As with most award shows, the films that campaign the hardest and have the most “prestige” are the ones that win, whether or not they are actually worthy of recognition.
Sometimes the system works and “The Return of the King” wins 11 Oscars.
That was a good year.
Typically, though, mediocre-at-best fare like “The King’s Speech” walks away with Best Picture, and it takes me months to rebuild any of my faith in Hollywood.
Most years, I pick one or two winners I desperately want to see get a statue (Natalie Portman last year), and if they get at least
that
right, I can put up with watching the Academy embarrass themselves over and over again for the rest of the evening.
But since I’m not part of the problem, I should really try being part of the solution, so this year, I aim to rectify the insultingly inaccurate nature of the Academy Awards
using the power of my imagination!
The Academy announces their official nominations on Tuesday, January 24
th
, and in
four articles
leading up to that date, I’ll be revealing my
own
nominations in the first annual
Jonathan Lack’s “Dream Academy Awards!”
I’ll be going through almost all of the categories, sans Documentary and Shorts, and because this is all in my imagination anyway, I’ve expanded all the categories from five nominees to seven, since five is too few to recognize all the good work from the past year.
This is a fun project, because while I don’t like the execution of the Oscars, I do like them in theory.
It’s cool to recognize achievements in individual elements of film, rather than just what the best films were as critics do with a
Top-Ten List
, and I think this will give me a chance to illustrate what I personally value in the technical, sound, and acting categories in the world of film.
Sometimes before the Oscar Telecast in February, I’ll announce the
Winners
of my Dream Academy Awards as well, possibly in podcast form!
The
Dream Academy Award Nominations
will begin next Tuesday, January 10
th
, with four sets of nominations posting every Tuesday and Thursday for the next two weeks: here’s the schedule:
Schedule:
The Technical Categories – Tuesday, January 10
th
Music and Sound – Thursday, January 12
th
The Acting Categories – Tuesday, January 17
th
The Big Categories – Thursday, January 19
th
Actual Oscar Nominations – Tuesday, January 24
th
I will, of course, also comment on the
real
Academy Award nominations and compare (or, more accurately, contrast) them to my own imaginary ones on the
24
th
.
I hope you enjoy this little project, and I’d love to hear who
your
Dream nominees would be.
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