Editorial: We don't need a theater to know when movies are Oscar-worthy. The academy shouldn't either (via latimesopinion)
One of the most acclaimed movies of all time, David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia,” is a poem to the ever-changing desert sandscape, shot with panoramic cameras on unusually wide film. You weren’t meant as much to watch this 1962 film as to immerse yourself in it — in a theater.
for a movie to get Oscar consideration while cinemas are closed . Academy officials made it clear that this was a temporary move, however, and that when theaters reopened, the requirement would be restored. “The Academy firmly believes there is no greater way to experience the magic of movies than to see them in a theater. Our commitment to that is unchanged and unwavering,” top Academy officialsWe think the change should become permanent.
Gone are the TV sets that would have chopped off the sides of a 70-millimeter movie like “Ben-Hur.” But even as flat TV screens have advanced to the point where they can show movies in their full widescreen format in incredible detail, a screen in your living room can’t offer sound and visuals as magnified as a movie theater can, or the communal experience of sharing an emotional ride with a packed house.
When Universal Pictures executives decided they couldn’t wait for theaters to reopen to release the animated “Trolls World Tour,” they sent it off to video on demand on April 10, and it made nearly $100 million in three weeks. Universal’s Jeff Shell said later that once theaters reopened the studio would release some movies
Still, critics suggest that dispensing with the theatrical release requirement would worsen a cascade of industry problems. Former studio executive and producer Bill Mechanic contends that smaller movies that play in theaters often draw attention from viewers and critics that distinguishes them from the pack and heads them toward Oscar consideration.
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