New Academy Rules

As I'm sure you have probably heard by now, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Friday that they will have brand new rules for the Academy as a whole and for their annual Oscar ceremony . I'm sure you also know that the Academy had a lot of back lash as to there being no minorities nominated in the acting categories, in which case a lot of people like Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith, (granted she may be just upset due to her husband not being nominated,) saying they are going to boycott this years ceremony. What did the Academy do in response? They totally changed the rules of the Academy. First let me tell you how the Academy is run now. For all intents and purposes it is run by mainly older white guys. Most of them are over the age of 62 and a large majority have not worked in the industry for 10 years. There are basically no blacks in the Academy (only around 20 % ) , and if you want to be a new member in the Academy, you need to first off be invited to join, then you need to have a studio sponsor you for you to join. Here is what they are doing; they are going to try and get more minority members and hopefully get it around 50% by the year 2020, they are also aiming at getting younger members, and to join you still need to be invited, but they are getting rid of the whole studio sponsor thing (I don't know what that was all about in the first place). As for the Oscars, they are almost going to get rid of the lifetime voting thing, but here is how it's going to work: They are going to judge you in 10 year segments, if you have not worked in the industry for a decade, then you will moved to a merit status. Merit status means you will receive all the benefits of being an Academy member, such as going to the movies for free, seeing the Oscars in person, but will not be able to vote for the Oscars. If you make a surprise comeback then you will resume your voting status. If you have won or have been nominated for an Oscar, you will have lifetime voting rights. Another way to get lifetime voting rights is if you have worked for three consecutive 10 year segments. Nowadays it will be that you have to have had to worked in the 80's, 90's, and 2000's. As for my opinion on these new rules, I think they are very reasonable although I have a couple problems with the rules (I am not a member as I wish I was ). I think the lifetime limiting is very good but I think that the whole idea that working for 3 ten year segments and getting lifetime voting rights is not a good idea. I can understand that if you have won or been nominated for an Oscar, because that is a select group and these people have made a significant contribution to the industry but having just worked for a very long time does not mean that you have made this significant contribution, although some may have. Unfortunately, the rules will not take affect until next years ceremony, but here's hoping that by getting younger members we will get movies like Batman V Superman, Captain America Civil War, and Finding Dori into the best picture race, (providing they are any good).

You may be wondering where is my review for the Critics Choice Awards Ceremony but unfortunately due to this big and juicy news, I have had to cancel that blog, but because I don't want to leave you high and dry, I will post a link to the list of winners, and remember don't forget to submit a movie for my end of the year poll! You have until February 29^th. The rules are in the event section of my blog. Goodnight and Bee Happy!™ 

By Mr Bee 

 

For more information about the new rules please visit http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/23/business/media/oscars-diversity-academy-voting-rules.html?action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&module=RelatedCoverage&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article&_r=0

For a complete list of all the Critic Choice Award winners (this year) please visit http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/17/critics 
 

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Oscar Nominees: 2016

Well, the Oscar nominations were announced yesterday morning (at the time I am writing this.)

There were a lot of surprises, so let's not waste any more time and get right to it.

Let's start with Best Animated Feature. Now, when I was predicting it, I thought that the nominees would be Inside Out, Shawn the Sheep, Peanuts, The Good Dinosaur, and Anamolisa. But, I only ended up being right on three of them. Inside Out, Shawn the Sheep and Anamolisa. The other nominations, I did not think were going to make it. Boy & the World and When Marnie Was There I did not think were going to make it. I guess I couldn't be too surprised on Marnie because it is Studio Gibli and the Academy loves them. They even gave the award to them for Spirited Away in 2003. As for who is going to win, it's easily going to be Inside Out.

Best Director: I am surprised that Ridley Scott was not nominated for The Martian. When it won Best Picture Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes last Sunday, I thought it was a shoe-in to win Best Picture. Now it looks like it's not, because usually when the director is not nominated, the film usually does not win Best Picture. It could happen, and it has happened...but only 4 times in history. The most recent to do so were Driving Miss Daisy (1990) and Argo (2013) respectively. So I predict that we will have to wait at least another 23 years before we see it happen again. So, in short, The Martian is probably not going to win Best Picture. As for who is going to win Best Director, I predict Alejandro G. Iñárritu but Tom McCarthey being a possible upset, because the academy might have a problem with giving it to the same person two years in a row.

Best Picture: There are 8 nominations this year. As you may know, the nominations for Best Picture can range anywhere from 5-10 movies. There are a couple of movies that got left out due to there being only 8. The movies that could have made the list but did not are include but is not limited to: Star Wars, even though it got several technical award nominations and best score for John Williams, Carol, even though it managed to get two acting nominations for Cate Blanchett and Ronney Mara, Straight Outta Compton even though it did get a best original screen play nomination, and Inside Out (I am disappointed on this one) but as mentioned earlier it did get a best Animated Feature nomination and a best Original Screen Play nomination. As for who is going to win best picture I predict The Revenant. As for best actor it's Leo's year finally! With Matt Damon being a possible upset.

Goodnight and Bee Happy!™ 

By Mr. Bee

For a complete list of all the Oscar nominations please visit http://oscar.go.com/nominees?ref=ampas 

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The 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards and BAFTA Nominees

I know I'm a little late getting this posted but unfortunately I couldn't post it because I was offline for about a day . ENJOY !

Mr Bee

Well, welcome! The 73^rd Annual Golden Globes just wrapped up last night in Beverly Hills. So, let's begin.

The show was hosted by Ricky Gervais for the forth time. He did a really good job! If you have been reading my blog for a year, you will know from last year's show, I said “somebody get back Ricky Gervias!” Low and behold, they did. The presenters tended to be hit or miss in my opinion. Now let's get to the winners.

Best Picture (drama) went to The Revenant. And, I know I predicted Spotlight to win that award, but The Revenant was my number 2 prediction. Best Picture (musical or comedy) went to The Martian (as I predicted).

Best Actor in a drama went to Leonardo DiCaprio for The Revenant as well. Best Actress in a drama went to Brie Larson for Room I know I predicted Cate Blanchett for Carol but I wasn't sure who was going to win so Larson winning was not a surprise. Best Actor in a musical or comedy went to Matt Damon just as I had predicted. Best Actress in a musical or Comedy went to Jennifer Lawrence in Joy . I could have sworn Amy Shumer was going to win. For best supporting Actor Sylvester Styllone for Creed . Best supporting Actress went to Kate Winslet for her role in Steve Jobs . For Best Director Alejandro González Iñárritu for The Revenent. I thought Tom McCarthy was going to win but this award to Iñárritu is probably a makeup for not giving him the award last year for Birdman. And FINALLY the best animated feature award went to Inside Out ( no surprise there). And now before I end this blog I am going to take a quick look at the BAFTA nominees ( I am adding the BAFTAS to my award season coverage for 2 reasons 1. It's a very good predictor for the Oscars and 2. It a European Award Show and most of my audience is in Europe ). For Best Picture I am predicting The Revenant just to be on the safe side. For Best Animated Feature , it is really surprising that Minions is nominated ( maybe it played better to European audiences - everyone reading in Europe can you please confirm that ? ) But Inside Out is clearly the frontrunner.

That about wraps up my coverage of the Golden Globes and the BAFTA nominations . There is more award season coverage heading your way including my thoughts on the Oscar nominations and The Critic Choice Awards Ceremony . So check back for both of those! And remember there is still time to submit a movie for my end of the year poll. You can find the rules in my events section of my blog. Goodnight and Bee Happy!™

By Mr Bee

For a complete list of all the BAFTA nominees , please visit http://awards.bafta.org/award/2016/film

For a complete list of all the Golden Globe winners and nominees please visit http://www.goldenglobes.com/winners-nominees

 

                                                         

 

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Mr Bee's end of 2015 poll (rules)

Hello, happy New Year everyone!

Well, with 2015 ending, 2016 brings with it a lot of things like “Batman V. Superman” and the presidential elections and finally the end of the year poll. Now, let's get onto the rules.

• No NC17 Movies.
• Made for TV movies are acceptable, but not part of a series.
• Please state the year of the movie on your submission.
• Only one vote per person.

All you have to do in order to submit a movie is to comment on any of my blogs or e-mail me at thatbradley@gmail.com you have until February 29 to make a submission. With the posting of this blog, the polls are now officially open.

By Mr. Bee  

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