Controversy Behind the Oscars
The Oscars are the final cap of the awards season, as they pride themselves on being the most prestigious award ceremony ever. It says it awards the best films in every category, to honor movies. However, there are several people who disagree, due to what the Oscars do behind the scenes. Every year, movies do an “Oscar Campaign” where they pay the judges to watch their movies and then will give them gifts to persuade them. Variety estimated that Hollywood studios would pay 3 to 10 million, just to convince Oscar judges. They target voters with ads and aggressive marketing in order to convince judges. Oscar campaigns take precise steps to convince voters, in order to supply a nomination or win. However, this truth goes against what the Oscars stand for, which is to determine the best film of the year. This doesn’t bring into the fact of the suppression of films from categories. For example, animation has a lot of work and effort put into it from all over the world. However, animation only has one category and never any other recognition. It deems it as childish, and seems to be just a way for Disney to get another Oscar, as usually movies from other countries are not nominated. Which is a theme of Oscar nominations. Many films from foregen countries get the “best forgen film category,” and then are not nominated for other awards. Usually every year the Oscar nominations come out, many people get upset as a film they believed to be good got “snubbed.” Which means a film that deserved to get nominated, didn’t when a lesser film has taken place. Meanwhile the Oscars are getting record low views. Less people are turning in to the Oscars or see it as what it claims to be. These false oscar campaigns can be the reason, as films that deserve to win but don’t even get nominated because of their small budget. As big films advertise to voters and get nominated due to the money alone. This ruins the whole point of the Oscars, and makes the claims it makes to be the most prestigious award ceremony for movies a lie. This can ruin people's viewing experience.
