In this episode, Alex is joined by film critic C.J. Prince of Acquired Cinema to discuss how and why the Oscars are becoming more international and how this impacts what movies you hear about and see. They also delve into what makes a movie an Oscar movie and how this relates to the way the movie business functions.
The Oscars are changing for the better, but the field is not nearly as wide open as you might think, nor is it reflective of the wide variety of high-quality films that exist.
Even if you don’t care about the Oscars, the criteria for what constitutes Oscar-worthy films deeply impacts what films you hear about.
Because arthouse and international distributors divide films into two categories: movies they think can win Oscars and movies that can’t.
Oscar movies get massive marketing budgets, come out in the fall, and screen for months. So you hear about them. The rest get dumped in the spring and summer, and they might not even tell the press the films exist, no matter how good the movies are.
In this episode, film critic C.J. Prince of Acquired Cinema joins Alex to discuss how and why the Oscars are becoming more international and how this impacts what movies you hear about and see. They also delve into what makes a movie an Oscar movie and how this relates to the way the movie business functions.
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