Every year during the fall and winter seasons, theaters are inevitably flooded with Oscar bait. These movies are produced with the sole purpose of earning Academy Award nominations. The accolades can translate into serious box office — making the quest for Oscar gold as much financial competition as an artistic one — and every production company offers a few contenders every year. Oscar bait is often defined by appearing to say something profound and important with the medium while taking very little creative or political risks. Period films that depict a major world tragedy tend to make good Oscar bait, as movies that push a social agenda in an overtly sentimental way. The ultimate Oscar bait combines these two elements into one film.Numerous pieces of Oscar bait receive average to poor reviews from critics, but are rewarded with prestigious nominations in an attempt to boost box office revenue. Others are heaped with critical praise when first released — even earning Oscars in the process — only to fade with time and reflect their age quite poorly. For every Best Picture that genuinely deserves the honor — The Godfather, for instance, or Silence of the Lambs — there are dozens of others that just don’t stand up. In that kind of environment, the overt Oscar bait becomes exceedingly easy to spot. The most egregious examples are in a class all their own.Based on a true story, Green Book is the ideal Oscar bait movie — a period drama about racial discrimination set in the early 1960s. That said, Green Book is by no means a bad movie, and features excellent performances from Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali. However, compared to some other films released in 2018, Green Book had no business being nominated for Best Picture, let alone winning the award.
Every year during the fall and winter seasons, theaters are inevitably flooded with Oscar bait. These movies are produced with the sole purpose of earning Academy Award nominations. The accolades can translate into serious box office — making the quest for Oscar gold as much financial competition as an artistic one — and every production company offers a few contenders every year. Oscar bait is often defined by appearing to say something profound and important with the medium while taking very little creative or political risks. Period films that depict a major world tragedy tend to make good Oscar bait, as movies that push a social agenda in an overtly sentimental way. The ultimate Oscar bait combines these two elements into one film.
Numerous pieces of Oscar bait receive average to poor reviews from critics, but are rewarded with prestigious nominations in an attempt to boost box office revenue. Others are heaped with critical praise when first released — even earning Oscars in the process — only to fade with time and reflect their age quite poorly. For every Best Picture that genuinely deserves the honor — The Godfather, for instance, or Silence of the Lambs — there are dozens of others that just don’t stand up. In that kind of environment, the overt Oscar bait becomes exceedingly easy to spot. The most egregious examples are in a class all their own.
Based on a true story, Green Book is the ideal Oscar bait movie — a period drama about racial discrimination set in the early 1960s. That said, Green Book is by no means a bad movie, and features excellent performances from Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali. However, compared to some other films released in 2018, Green Book had no business being nominated for Best Picture, let alone winning the award.
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