{"id":57376,"date":"2018-09-07T15:12:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T13:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/07\/the-popular-oscar-u-turn-is-embarrassing-but-its-better-than-the-alternative\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T13:12:47","slug":"the-popular-oscar-u-turn-is-embarrassing-but-its-better-than-the-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=57376","title":{"rendered":"The &#039;popular Oscar&#039; U-turn is embarrassing. But it&#039;s better than the alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood\u2019s 90-year-old dog-and-pony show wants new faces on screen and at the box office, but is worryingly muddled over how to do itFor an institution that recently celebrated its 90th anniversary, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences \u2013 home to the Oscars \u2013 isn\u2019t looking too self-assured these days.It\u2019s nine years since they announced the biggest-ever shake-up to the Hollywood dog-and-pony show \u2013 expanding the best picture category from five to 10 nominees \u2013 only to half-retreat two years later, shifting to a mathematically arcane formula that keeps the final number in flux. That experiment was a naked grab for more popular inclusivity among the nominees after a run of indie-dominated ceremonies, but they balked when a flat 10 allowed artistically barren dross such as Sandra Bullock\u2019s white-saviour smash The Blind Side through the gates. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2018\/sep\/07\/the-popular-oscar-u-turn-is-embarrassing-but-its-better-than-the-alternative\" target=\"_blank\">The &#039;popular Oscar&#039; U-turn is embarrassing. But it&#039;s better than the alternative<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood\u2019s 90-year-old dog-and-pony show wants new faces on screen and at the box office, but is worryingly muddled over how to do itFor an institution that recently celebrated its 90th anniversary, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences \u2013 home to the Oscars \u2013 isn\u2019t looking too self-assured these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}