The Awards Season is upon us December 14, 2005
Posted by TheCasualCritic in movie talk
With AFI announcing their official 10 movies of the year and with the HPFA announcing the Golden Globe Nominations for 2005, the Awards season is officially started.
As always, do not dispair if you haven't seen 3/4 of the movies nominated for these awards and perhaps haven't even heard of half of them. The movie studios are afraid of the short memory span which would make us forget movies that we've seen in... April let's say and they are also betting on the number of people willing to go to the movies during the holiday season to ensure significant box office support for their films.
Perhaps most importantly though, the movie producers and distributors know that Awards, while somewhat influenced by box-office are ultimately given out by only a handful of people that will watch these movies anyway due to screener dvds that are carefully sent to them every December. And after that, its all a marketing game, a game of "who did not get last year an award in their best role ever, so we should give them one this year although they kinda sucked", a game of studio influence, political statements and actor charisma. The movies? Well yah, the movies themselves are relevant too :).
If you want more ranting and raving about awards check out the Oscars section of the site where I will delve into more details.
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