This morning, please work on your documentary film projects. Aim to complete these today, if possible, and upload to Youtube. Please send me the URL link for your work in the comment section below. We will screen them next week.
If you finish early (before the end of the period) or even if you don't, please read and take notes on the following topic:
The Academy Awards
The Academy Awards®, known as the Oscars®, are the oldest, best known and famous film awards. The awards have been presented annually (the first ceremony was held in May, 1929) by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), based in Beverly Hills, California (founded in 1927).
"Except for the early years of the institution, the awards honored films made during the previous 12-month calendar year. Films also had to be over 40 minutes long to qualify as feature-length. Until 1954, the Oscars were presented mostly on a Thursday evening. From 1955 to 1958, they were presented on a Wednesday. From 1959 until 1998 the Oscars were, with a few exceptions, presented on a Monday night. Only since 1999 has the Awards ceremony taken place on a Sunday (traditionally in March). In 2004, the ceremony was moved even earlier (thus the February date) to improve ratings and to be more relevant to the awards 'season'.
Comments About the Awards Themselves:
The establishment of the Academy (and its awards system) has had a major effect and influence upon the film industry, due to the enormous boost a nomination or award (for a film, designer, or actor) creates, by giving prestige and bottom-line profits to a studio or performer.
Studios have often engaged in expensive marketing and advertising campaigns to sway votes. The Academy has, with limited success, tried to limit the influences of pressure groups and promotion, box office gross receipts, and studio public relations and marketing on voting results. It has also attempted to limit votes for melodramatic sentimentality, atonement for past mistakes, personal popularity, and "prestige" or epic scale, but those influences have often had a decided effect upon the outcome of some of the poll results.
Unfortunately, the critical worth, artistic vision, cultural influence, and innovative qualities of many films are not given the same voting weight. Especially since the 80s, moneymaking 'formula-made' blockbusters with glossy production values have often been crowd-pleasing titans (and Best Picture winners), but they haven't necessarily been great films with depth or critical acclaim by any measure."
See Tim Dirk's site for "The Worst Academy Awards Oscars" for more information. Read the article online, then click "NEXT" at the bottom to continue viewing the article. This includes information about the Academy Award winners, as well.
"Like any other awards, recognitions, or "best" lists, the top nominees and winners do not necessarily reflect or objectively measure the greatest that cinematic history has to offer. Many of the most Deserving Films of All Time (see Films Without Awards) did not win Academy Awards® (and in some cases were not even included in the nominees). In addition, Top Box-Office Films aren't always guaranteed awards success either. And certain Film Genres (notably westerns, science fiction, and comedy) as well as independent films are not represented in balanced numbers throughout Oscar history." - Tim Dirks
For information about the 2016 Oscars, check out this site! You can find trailers for the Oscar nominations at this site. Please watch a few trailers. You might even predict the winners.
For those of you more socially conscious, consider this year's Academy Award boycott:
HOMEWORK: Complete your documentary film project. Read the article on the Oscars and watch the Academy Awards this Sunday, Feb. 28 (or if you cannot you can review the winners Monday--or if you wish to protest with the boycott, read and understand the links above concerning this issue and be prepared to discuss in class.)
Monday's class will examine the issue at hand as well as Blockbusters and the Academy Awards. Please come prepared to participate.
If you finish early (before the end of the period) or even if you don't, please read and take notes on the following topic:
The Academy Awards
The Academy Awards®, known as the Oscars®, are the oldest, best known and famous film awards. The awards have been presented annually (the first ceremony was held in May, 1929) by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), based in Beverly Hills, California (founded in 1927).
"Except for the early years of the institution, the awards honored films made during the previous 12-month calendar year. Films also had to be over 40 minutes long to qualify as feature-length. Until 1954, the Oscars were presented mostly on a Thursday evening. From 1955 to 1958, they were presented on a Wednesday. From 1959 until 1998 the Oscars were, with a few exceptions, presented on a Monday night. Only since 1999 has the Awards ceremony taken place on a Sunday (traditionally in March). In 2004, the ceremony was moved even earlier (thus the February date) to improve ratings and to be more relevant to the awards 'season'.
Comments About the Awards Themselves:
The establishment of the Academy (and its awards system) has had a major effect and influence upon the film industry, due to the enormous boost a nomination or award (for a film, designer, or actor) creates, by giving prestige and bottom-line profits to a studio or performer.
Studios have often engaged in expensive marketing and advertising campaigns to sway votes. The Academy has, with limited success, tried to limit the influences of pressure groups and promotion, box office gross receipts, and studio public relations and marketing on voting results. It has also attempted to limit votes for melodramatic sentimentality, atonement for past mistakes, personal popularity, and "prestige" or epic scale, but those influences have often had a decided effect upon the outcome of some of the poll results.
Unfortunately, the critical worth, artistic vision, cultural influence, and innovative qualities of many films are not given the same voting weight. Especially since the 80s, moneymaking 'formula-made' blockbusters with glossy production values have often been crowd-pleasing titans (and Best Picture winners), but they haven't necessarily been great films with depth or critical acclaim by any measure."
See Tim Dirk's site for "The Worst Academy Awards Oscars" for more information. Read the article online, then click "NEXT" at the bottom to continue viewing the article. This includes information about the Academy Award winners, as well.
"Like any other awards, recognitions, or "best" lists, the top nominees and winners do not necessarily reflect or objectively measure the greatest that cinematic history has to offer. Many of the most Deserving Films of All Time (see Films Without Awards) did not win Academy Awards® (and in some cases were not even included in the nominees). In addition, Top Box-Office Films aren't always guaranteed awards success either. And certain Film Genres (notably westerns, science fiction, and comedy) as well as independent films are not represented in balanced numbers throughout Oscar history." - Tim Dirks
For information about the 2016 Oscars, check out this site! You can find trailers for the Oscar nominations at this site. Please watch a few trailers. You might even predict the winners.
For those of you more socially conscious, consider this year's Academy Award boycott:
- Oscars So White (LA Times)
- Will Smith on 2016 Oscars Boycott
- The Oscars Diversity Controversy (a good summary from ThinkProgress.org)
HOMEWORK: Complete your documentary film project. Read the article on the Oscars and watch the Academy Awards this Sunday, Feb. 28 (or if you cannot you can review the winners Monday--or if you wish to protest with the boycott, read and understand the links above concerning this issue and be prepared to discuss in class.)
Monday's class will examine the issue at hand as well as Blockbusters and the Academy Awards. Please come prepared to participate.
4 comments:
http://cinewiki.wikispaces.com/Nickelodeon+Era+(1905-1915) - Cameron Bennett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzR9YzRaUjI&feature=youtu.be
https://youtu.be/gRJ_0JyL-1c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUOaYxzWk0g
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