In choosing to extend the eligibility window, the Oscars missed out on the chance to do something really special. BilgeEbiri writes
Photo: Courtesy of Warner Bros. The Oscars, it seems, are never not in a tough spot. Today, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced that owing to the coronavirus pandemic, they are moving the show’s date to April 25 and extending films’ eligibility period by two months, meaning that next year’s awards show will honor films released between January 1, 2020, and February 28, 2021 . It’s understandable that AMPAS would want to extend the eligibility period.
But in choosing to extend the eligibility window, the Oscars missed out on the chance to do something really special this year. And that would have been to not do anything at all. Not move any dates. Keep the eligibility period as usual. They had already made the decision to allow films that didn’t get their scheduled seven-day-minimum run at a Los Angeles County theater to compete this year. And those movies did come out . Some of them are very good.
Which is a shame. Because right now, if I wanted to assemble ten films that have already opened this year that could compete for Best Picture, I’d have no trouble doing so: Da 5 Bloods, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, First Cow, Bacurau, Beanpole, The Wild Goose Lake, Sorry We Missed You, Emma, Shirley, and The Assistant. Yes, this list has three foreign-language films on it, but a foreign-language film won Best Picture last year, so whatever.
Such a list of nominees would also go some ways toward organically accomplishing the elusive task of diversifying the Best Picture field . Admittedly, you might not have seen or even heard of some of these films. But Oscars are supposed to be about quality, and nowadays they seem so rarely to be about quality. In fact, all too often now, awards season devolves into a weird, silly kind of tribal warfare in which the potential victory of certain films is transformed into existential threats.
An Oscars built around smaller releases that are nevertheless great movies might actually serve as a necessary reset for AMPAS, and return the awards back to what they should be about in the first place: honoring excellence. It would also serve as a great platform to help people discover amazing new films. Imagine that: An Oscars season that is not about glitz and glamour but about quality. An Oscars season that’s not overloaded with bloated biopics or self-important CGI spectacles.
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