Why science fiction movies are not favored by Oscar?

At the Oscar ceremony, these rules did exist. Although they were not explicitly stated, they did exist in this way. As the title says, science fiction movies generally don't get the best picture Oscar.

This so-called "hidden rule" is not unreasonable, because the meaning of the Oscar for Best Picture award is too complicated, and there are too many things to consider comprehensively in a movie.

Most sci-fi films have something in common. They either attract audiences by wonderful special effects or win by unique ideas and rich stories. There is a fatal weakness in science fiction films: lack of humanistic feelings and spiritual core.

Christopher Nolan, the director of Inception, all his sci-fi works are excellent sci-fi films. Inception, Interstellar, Fatal Magic, these films are the first few works in Douban top25.

There is even a joke about Christopher Nolan: If Nolan lives long enough, his work alone can definitely be contracted for Douban top25.

However, such an excellent director has never won an Oscar for best film, and Inception hasn't even been nominated since. The characters of Oscar for Best Film are not only the bottleneck of Nolan, but also the bottleneck of the whole science fiction film.

But there are always people who don't believe in evil. Can't science fiction movies have special effects, creativity and connotation at the same time?

In 1982, blade runner directed by ridley scott was released.

This film is also called "the originator of Cyberpunk", with steam waves, holographic projections, prosthetic human beings, replicas of perfect bodies like Greek sculptures, dim lights, dark streets and iconic graffiti.

These audio-visual elements have become the most standard things in Cyberpunk, but this science fiction tells a very profound theme: the essential differences between human beings and replicators.

The last line of the Replicator Roy Batty is ".all these moments will be lost in time, like tears ... in the rain"

This movie attracts the audience by its sci-fi theme, but wins the audience's love by its connotation. However, such an excellent film still cannot be favored by the Oscar judges.

In 1999, keanu reeves starred in The Matrix.

if "blade runner" didn't win the Oscar for best picture because it was too unpopular, what about "The Matrix"?

The Matrix is really a classic science fiction work, and Neo played by keanu reeves is still talked about. "Bullet Time", "Agent Smith" and "Box World", these classic shots and ideas, have always been the special labels of The Matrix.

What's more amazing about The Matrix is not only the sci-fi elements, but also the theme behind the film. When the hero Neo chose the red pill, he entered (returned) a brand-new world. Virtual reality, true and false, what is right?

which is real, reality or illusion? Do you also think about the authenticity of the world?

On this topic, The Matrix has launched a large-scale exploration, which also makes the audience in front of the screen think about themselves.

Such an excellent work has not been selected by the Oscar for Best Picture, or even nominated.

That is to say, even if the special effects, stories and connotations of science fiction movies are all excellent, as long as there is the label of "science fiction movies", it seems that you can't get the best film Oscar.

However, not all Oscar awards "reject" science fiction movies.

However, although these awards are also recognition of movies, they can't win the Oscar for best film. Not only are the producers unhappy, but we sci-fi movie fans are also dissatisfied.

cut to the chase.

At present, none of the sci-fi films (including soft sci-fi films) have won the Oscar for Best Film with the highest gold content. Instead, they are the winners of the "Technical Awards". However, I think that the standard of classic films is to stand the test of the times and be passed on by the audience. From this standard, many science fiction films are good movies.

So, why is it so difficult for science fiction films to win the best picture Oscar? I think this is determined by the genre of science fiction films. As the saying goes, the ruler is long and the inch is short. Science fiction films must be unique and innovative in creativity, and put creativity in the first place, which is its strength, but relatively, it sacrifices artistry more or less, and there are "shortcomings" in thought and connotation.

Several sci-fi films mentioned by the subject have all won more or less Oscar awards or nominations. 21: A Space Odyssey won the Oscar for Best Special Effects, Avatar won the nominations for Best Photography, Best Visual Effects, Best Art Direction, Best Film and Best Director, and Inception won the awards for Best Photography, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Effects and Best Visual Special Effects.

blade runner won only two nominations because of the fierce competition for the Oscar in 1983. However, considering that E.T. Alien won only the best visual effects award in the same year, and the sequel Blade Runner 249 won the best cinematography and visual effects awards, it can also be regarded as a hot movie for winning the Olympic Games.

As far as I know, many sci-fi movies (including soft sci-fi movies) actually won the Oscar. In addition to the films mentioned above, close encounters of the third kind won the 5th Oscar for Best Photography and Special Achievement, including Star Wars and its sequels Star Wars 2: The Empire Strikes Back, Alien and Alien 2, E.T. Alien, The Matrix, Star Trek and Gravity.

I always think that the standard of a good movie is not whether it won an award or not, but whether it was remembered by the times and the audience. As long as it is of epoch-making significance and contributes to the innovation and development of similar films, it will leave a strong impression in the history of movies. To put it bluntly, winning an award is only one of the criteria for an excellent film. Whether it can stand the test of the times and make the audience remember it for a long time and regard it as a classic is the greatest value embodiment of a film.

For example, among the 55th Oscar-winning films in which blade runner participated, how many people remember the best film "The Biography of Gandhi"? How many people think that blade runner is worthy of a generation of classic titles?

I don't want to challenge the authority of the Oscar here, and I don't want to stir up any controversial topics, but there are a thousand Hamlet for a thousand people, and there are more or less differences between the aesthetic orientation of the audience and the artistic pursuit of the judges. But I always think that what is remembered by most audiences is good movies.

Hello, everyone. I'm Song Hun, and I'm very happy to answer this question for you.

Oscar, that is, the Academy Award, is called the Academy Award because the organizer is the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. You can see from the name that art comes before science.

In 214, the Los Angeles Times conducted a survey. Of the 6,28 college award judges, 94% were white and 76% were male, and the average age of the judges was 63. That is to say, most of these judges were born in the 194 s and 196 s, and this factor may still have a great binding force on the ideology of the judges.

The first time a science fiction film was nominated for the Best Picture Award was Star Wars in 1978, which was the box office champion that excited all the young people in the world, earning $775 million, but in the end, it was the life film annie hall, which earned only $38 million at the box office.

At that time, science fiction films had become an important part of the American box office and could not be ignored. However, the college is still unwilling to give important projects including best film, best director and best photography to such things that young people like to watch. In the eyes of the older generation of artists, these things are all dirty.

However, the college has to give an account to the capitalists, and it still has to do things. The best film and the best director are the bottom line of the old-timers.

close encounters of the third kind won the Best Photography Award in the same session of Star Wars.

Before that, science fiction films were usually awarded for the best visual effects. For example, the 1968 film "21: The Odyssey in Space" can be said to be a landmark work in the history of science fiction, just like Star Wars. However, no matter what you think, it is not film art for the Oscar judges. To comfort a visual effect, let alone the fact that the best visual effects only became a separate award in 1964.

Destination Moon in p>195 and War of the Worlds in 1953 both won this award, but many of them were in the form of special achievement awards, which are not official awards.

It's really hard for a movie like science fiction to win an Oscar. It's all the best special effects, occasionally the best photography, sound effects, and, like Heath Ledger, ratification.

Not only science fiction, fantasy and horror movies, but also belong to this range, and they have been nominated all the time, and there is no formal award. Until the Lord of the Rings won the Best Film Award in 24, not only fantasy fans cried with joy, but also sci-fi fans who cursed the Academy Award in Star Wars, ET, Jurassic Park and The Matrix felt great comfort.

In p>216, "Coming" was unique and probably the most in-depth sci-fi film in the last decade. It was nominated for eight awards, including the Best Film Award and the Best Director Award, and finally took away a visual effect (errata: this should be the best sound effect clip in 89 circles). So I think that the Lord of the Rings award is a consolation prize for fantasy films, and after that, a consolation prize should also be awarded to science fiction films.

As a spectator who has watched a lot of movies but didn't study them in depth, the Oscar-winning films don't say all of them, but most of them are uninterested.

I believe that most people watch movies either for the wonderful and unexpected plot, for the visual and auditory enjoyment, for laughing, or even for killing time. Therefore, "popcorn" movies have always been liked by people, and it is enjoyable to watch without thinking.

However, many Oscar-winning works pay attention to culture, background, shooting techniques, etc., which feel more like films for professional film institutions, just like literature and drama films. We can't say that he is not good, but there are certainly not as many people who like watching him as those who like watching science fiction films.

Science fiction movies are famous for their grand scenes and wide brains, giving people a visual feast or whimsy. My humble opinion, the theme of science fiction is out of touch with today's society, which may be the main reason why it is not favored by Oscar. He has neither reflected social problems nor extended historical background. Generally speaking, he just can't become a textbook to make people learn and feel.

But I like watching sci-fi movies and Oscar-winning movies.

ps: American awards pay more attention to American culture, and the Green Book is a good example, which has a mediocre domestic box office.

what is an Oscar? The Oscars is an annual award organized and awarded by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to encourage the creation and development of excellent films.

He is the highest film art award in America and even in the world. The most important indicator is artistic style. In other words, they pay more attention to the connotation and ideological height of film and television works.

science fiction movies are not careless! You want to see the competition unit! If it is art direction, music, post-editing special effects and other units, most of the winners every year are science fiction films.

Therefore, there is no type of film that pays attention to it. Instead, each different type of audit requires different requirements.

no matter what kind of movie, if it is a good movie, it will naturally show its value in the long history, and the longer it is, the more mellow it will be. Why do you have to win the Oscar? Who is Oscar? This kind of film award stage, which can canvass votes on the streets like a consortium politician, is nothing if you figure it out. Blade runner, Blade Runner 249, 21: A Space Odyssey Guide, Avatar, Inception, and even the animated film WALL-E (that is, Robot Story, I have to say this translation is really harmful) are all self-contained, magnificent works, which can last for a hundred years and be immortal, giving inspiration to future generations. As for a hundred years later, Oscar is still not Oscar, whether it has deteriorated or not, and what will be the outcome, I say-

-shut me down. I care about the masterpiece itself, I don't care about the Oscar.

why are sci-fi movies not favored by Oscar? The following is my personal opinion. Welcome to discuss.

Except 21: A Space Odyssey, all the films mentioned by the subject have won more or less Oscars.

Most awards focus on visual effects. Of course, science fiction movies often pay special attention to this. Soft science fiction is mostly popcorn movies, and Oscar has more or less a pretentious element in it, so it doesn't pay much attention to this kind of movies; Good hard science fiction is rare, the base is small, and the number of awards is naturally small < P > because you care a little too much.