How much do Oscar nominations or wins affect your desire to see a film? Do you pay attention to and seek out the nominees and winners, or does love from the Oscars make little difference to your decision (or not) to view a film? Is there any awards love that you do sit up and take notice of?
To add to my point, great directors such as Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock never won any Oscars while Victor Fleming got the award for Gone with the Wind! It's the same with actors and the other categories.
They don't impress me in the least, as I believe the Oscars are a totally dodgy. The corruotion and information about the types of people who make the decisions render them irrelevant to me. But I am also opposed to the whole idea of competition in the arts. Criticism yes - we need to know what a production is like. But there are never any "winners" in the arts. Or "losers" either.
To add to my point, great directors such as Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock never won any Oscars while Victor Fleming got the award for Gone with the Wind! It's the same with actors and the other categories.
They don't impress me in the least, as I believe the Oscars are a totally dodgy. The corruotion and information about the types of people who make the decisions render them irrelevant to me. But I am also opposed to the whole idea of competition in the arts. Criticism yes - we need to know what a production is like. But there are never any "winners" in the arts. Or "losers" either.