I heard that the Academy hates the people who worked on the Disney Renaissance, which is why Musker and Clements never won the award, why Musker wasn't nominated for his short film (and Andreas Deja as well) and why Menken is never nominated anymore. Maybe that's the reason why they didn't want to give the award to Chris Sanders.
Source?
In 1975, 48.1 Million Americans watched the Oscars. That was 23% of the US population of 216 Million that year.
Fifty years later...
In 2024, 19.5 Million Americans watched the Oscars. That was 6% of the US population of 340 Million that year.
Doing that math actually surprised me. I can sense the Oscars are on the cusp of cultural irrelevancy, but I hadn't realized how low it had dropped as a percentage of the US population. That's incredible to see, really.
In 1975 you had 2 through 13 and a couple of UHF channels from the antenna or a hand full more if you were rich enough to afford cable and there was nothing on to watch.
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6M is the catering budget on a typical Disney movie.Since hardly any of us probably saw Anora, and it wasn't mentioned here at all really the past four months, here is the Box Office performance for that Best Picture winner.
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Doing the box office math on that gives us this profit for this arthouse film by Neon studios:
Anora: Production $6 Million, Marketing $3 Million, Domestic $10, Overseas $9 = $10 Million Profit
Anora (2024) - Financial Information
Financial analysis of Anora (2024) including budget, domestic and international box office gross, DVD and Blu-ray sales reports, total earnings and profitability.
I saw Flow in the theaters. It's wonderful movie with a lot of heart. It makes me want to replay Stray. It was definitely the best choice for an Oscar followed by Wild Robot.
Technology has changed greatly since 1975, but the cultural relevancy and impact of the Oscars has crashed in the last 15 years. And trust me when I tell you that in the last few decades of the 20th century, the Oscars viewing parties in the homes of confirmed bachelors were epic!
Next do the box office numbers for CODA, Best Pic winner of 2022.Since hardly any of us probably saw Anora, and it wasn't mentioned here at all really the past four months, here is the Box Office performance for that Best Picture winner.
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Doing the box office math on that gives us this profit for this arthouse film by Neon studios:
Anora: Production $6 Million, Marketing $3 Million, Domestic $10, Overseas $9 = $10 Million Profit
Anora (2024) - Financial Information
Financial analysis of Anora (2024) including budget, domestic and international box office gross, DVD and Blu-ray sales reports, total earnings and profitability.
So you agree then the ceremony wasn't started as a public celebration but rather an awards show for Hollywood themselves and lasted that way for over 2 decades.That line cracked me up more than it should have.
I had to go to untrustworthy Google to look up how many TV sets there were in the 1930's and 40's. (I'm old, but I wasn't there.)
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held in Hollywood in 1929. There were no commercially available TV's.
The first large scale exhibit of Television was made at the 1939 New York World's Fair. But World War II put it all on hold.
After World War II ended, in 1946 there were approximately 10,000 TV sets in the USA.
The Academy Awards was televised for the first time in March, 1953. Prices for 12 inch TV sets were dropping fast by then. 1953 was the same year that half of American households had a TV set!
So? If it loses cultural relevancy, and like others I actually question how much it ever really did have in the first place, Hollywood will continue the ceremony just as it before it was ever televised. Again its an awards shows for all Hollywood by Hollywood to celebrate themselves, nothing more.It actually hasn't always been that way.
In 1975, 48.1 Million Americans watched the Oscars. That was 23% of the US population of 216 Million that year.
Fifty years later...
In 2024, 19.5 Million Americans watched the Oscars. That was 6% of the US population of 340 Million that year.
Doing that math actually surprised me. I can sense the Oscars are on the cusp of cultural irrelevancy, but I hadn't realized how low it had dropped as a percentage of the US population. That's incredible to see, really.
HAHAHAHA, its clear you didn't watch the show and only did an 8 second search. He did plenty of political jokes all throughout the show, as did many others.
Another measure of TPs bad googling.
Exactly, we know from years past discussions that we suspect that many only view clips of the awards they care about on social media. We live in a different era of media consumption, and watching a 4 hour broadcast is not something that many outside of the older generations and those that have a huge interest in Hollywood are going to do, ie the general public isn't likely to do that like in decades past.
