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I wish AMPAS had been equally concerned about the integrity of the Oscar campaign process when Weinstein was in his heyday. Why didn’t the Academy ever announce it was launching an investigation into HIS tactics to secure votes?
he created a lot of the system that still happen today. without the campaign and all the money the studios invest, the oscar is not worth so much
andrea did it without their backing so they are public going after her as a warning to all actors not to defy the system
ReplyCopy URLhe created a lot of the system that still happen today. without the campaign and all the money the studios invest, the oscar is not worth so much andrea did it without their backing so they are public going after her as a warning to all actors not to defy the system
Or because her campaign was suspicious af and likely violated rules?
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Or because her campaign was suspicious af and likely violated rules?
her network of famous friends wanting to give her a nomination and promoting a movie that had no money to pay for a campaign is so suspicious……….
when weistein was hosting parties every weekend, hiring 200 people for a call center to keep calling voters in their homes and paying for peoples vacation in exchange for votes that was not suspicious and deserved a investigation, right?
the official instagram of the movie posted a review that mentioned cate blanchett, they broke every rule omg revoke the nomination
ReplyCopy URLI think if either Deadwyler or Davis made it, with Williams or de Armas being snubbed instead, Riseborough would probably be facing very little backlash, although the campaign may still be investigated.
I was honestly wondering the same thing. Are people actually upset the “rules” were broken and the system possibly needing to be fixed? Or are they just upset their personal favorites did not get nominated? The level of vitriol and near hate being directed towards Andrea Risborough’s team and herself by extension is getting kind of ridiculous. Not to mention we have no verified proof of her team doing anything wrong or against the rules, just the mere suggestion of it.
I am going to take the wait and see approach before I get truly upset about her nomination. In the big picture, I am sure her team is not the only one’s taking liberties or bending the rules, they are just the one’s careless/dumb enough to get caught.
Like it or not, Oscar Campaigning is pretty much an industry in itself and has been for the better part of the past 25 years or so. Everyone who was nominated this past Tuesday was actively campaigning for it. Just because other individuals (and their teams) like Bassett or Ke Huy Quon happened to do so in a much more classy, elegant, or subtle way does not mean it was happening any less.
ReplyCopy URLher network of famous friends wanting to give her a nomination and promoting a movie that had no money to pay for a campaign is so suspicious………. when weistein was hosting parties every weekend, hiring 200 people for a call center to keep calling voters in their homes and paying for peoples vacation in exchange for votes that was not suspicious and deserved a investigation, right? the official instagram of the movie posted a review that mentioned cate blanchett, they broke every rule omg revoke the nomination
What kind of deflection is this.
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times when harvey weistein broke rules and nothing happened
After the Oscar nominations were announced, Miramax funded a “Welcome to America” party for John Madden, Shakespeare’s British director; Academy members, including director Sidney Lumet, screenwriter-director Jay Presson Allen, and screenwriter David Newman, attended it. As Finke pointed out, this should’ve been held in violation of a 1997 Academy rule barring studios from hosting events for their nominees to which Academy members are invited. So how did Weinstein get around it? By explaining, “I’m sorry there were three Academy members present, but it was a press event, and you have to have celebrities at a press event to get the press there.”
The Weinstein Company sent a for-your-consideration e-mail to The Hollywood Reporter’s subscribers. It included a quote from critic Thelma Adams: “It’s been TWENTY-NINE YEARS SINCE MERYL STREEP WON AN OSCAR and she certainly deserves to win for her performance in The Iron Lady!” This should’ve been against the rules, because for-your-considerations aren’t allowed to reference past awards.
Weinstein got former Academy president and director of The Sound of Music Robert Wise to write an op-ed praising Scorsese and Gangs of New York. Miramax in turn used that op-ed in ads for the movie with the headline reading, “Two time Academy Award winner Robert Wise declares Scorsese deserves the Oscar for Gangs of New York.” It was later revealed that a Miramax publicist actually wrote it and had the 88-year-old Wise sign it. (This resulted in the Academy banning ads that include quotes from Academy members.)
ReplyCopy URLMaybe the Academy should change the rules and forbid campaigning while voting is taking place.
You’d have to narrowly define “campaigning.” Participating in SAG/Aftra interviews, appearing on talk shows, doing photo shoots for magazine covers, showing up on red carpets, attending “meet and greets” before and/or after screenings, making Twitter and IG posts— these are all forms of campaigning. The whole purpose of the Oscars is to promote movies, and sometimes it can be very difficult to distinguish between “promoting” and “campaigning.”
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