Audience boycotts Oscars for rejecting "Spider-Man: No Way Home"

Despite being a huge commercial success and receiving generally positive reviews from critics, " Spider-Man: No Way Home" missed major nominations at the 94th Academy Awards.

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, actor Andrew Garfield - one of three Spider-Man versions of Spider-Man: No Way Home - said he was surprised that the film had no Oscar nominations other than Visual Effects. excellent.

"It's the sixth biggest movie in cinematic history. It's a miracle to make a movie that millions of people want to see in theaters. But sometimes the people who want to award it don't feel that way. Obviously the movie. being rejected by Oscar. Personally, I feel satisfied with the audience's reaction, that's enough," the actor said.

The actor also mentioned being nominated for the Best Actor category for his role in Tick, Tick... Boom!.

"Honestly it's not my thing to vote. They have their own opinion to recognize a great actor. I think Olivia Colman has the best performance this year," he said.

Spider-Man: No Way Home hit theaters in December 2021 and continuously set many records. The final film in Tom Holland's Spider-Man trilogy grossed $1.88 billion and is currently the sixth highest-grossing film of all time.

Despite its commercial success and critical acclaim, Spider-Man: No Way Home has only one Outstanding Visual Effects nomination. The film competes with Shang Chi And the Legend of the Ten Rings, Dune, Free Guy and No Time to Die.

Previously, many in the industry opposed this result. In an interview with The Times, from actor Samuel L. Jackson said he found it strange that the Academy did not recognize the films that keep the film industry alive.

"They should have an Oscar for the most popular movie. That's what the business is aiming for. No Way Home does what studios are coveted by getting people into theaters," the actor said.

Some other industry insiders such as Marvel president Kevin Feige, director Kevin Smith, male MC Jimmy Kimmel - who once hosted the 2018 Oscars... were all unhappy when Spider-Man: No Way Home slipped major nominations at the Oscars. Academy Award.

It can be seen that, in recent years, Oscar is gradually being turned away by the audience because of boredom. Specifically, according to AP data, the rating of the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony (in 2021) was only 9.85 million viewers, down nearly half compared to 2020.

More specifically, Nielsen estimated that the number of live followers at the time of the announcement of the Best Feature Film category was 58% lower than the previous season's 23.6 million, setting a "record" for the Oscars. the fewest viewers.

Since 2015, Oscar ratings have been in free fall. That year with 37.3 million viewers was considered a sharp drop, let alone the current dire figures. In its heyday, the biggest movie awards ceremony on the planet was at 35-45 million views.

The US news agency confirmed that the audience was no longer interested in award ceremonies. Having suffered the same fate as the Oscars, the Golden Globes had only 6.9 million viewers and the Grammys only attracted 9.2 million spectators.

There are 32.4 million results when searching for the keyword "Rating Oscar reduced" on the Google toolbar. Many of those articles used the words "record low" and "all-time low" to describe the Oscar's decline.

In the Covid-19 era, many cinemas closed, and viewers were less interested in movie products - AP said. Not to mention, many strange works appeared in the awards ceremony, making the audience wonder and bored.

Analyst Marc Berman said: "I had a hard time watching the whole show. It was literally torture. Audiences had to witness lengthy acceptance speeches from films they had never seen or heard of. ".

According to the Los Angeles Times, organizers increasingly want the Oscars to be more like a movie. That makes the audience feel that the awards ceremony is not direct and suspenseful.

Oscar is the money machine of the Academy, when Disney (the owner of ABC station) spends $ 900 million on broadcasting rights to the awards ceremony until 2028. However, with a sharp drop in ratings, the move of "House" Rat" is considered by experts to be extremely risky.

What is the cause?

Besides the stage of organizing going into a rut, refusing to listen to public opinion, it was difficult for Oscar to conquer viewers because of many scandals.

The #OscarsSoWhite movement erupted in January 2016 after black director Spike Lee's motivational statement: "Two years in a row, no African-American has been nominated for an Oscar." In the current of condemning racism, Will Smith stood up to call for a boycott of the award, while many other black actors were angry, criticizing the Academy.

According to Hollywood Reporter, the list of 20 names nominated for acting categories that year belonged to white actors. The audience easily realized that the same thing had repeated many previous seasons.

Will Smith expressed his frustration: "I think America becomes beautiful because of the contributions of people of many different races. Hollywood is the place that best represents this contribution, but Oscar does not allow it. see that".

The idea that taking off the crown on the head of the Colombian representative and wearing it back to the beauty of the Philippines at Miss Universe 2015 was the incident of giving the wrong award the most noisy of the decade, in 2017, Oscar made an equally serious mistake.

In the category of Best Feature Film, instead of naming the winning film as Moonlight, Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty took the wrong envelope and called La La Land. The moment of "missing coronation" of the work starring Emma Stone caused overwhelming disappointment for viewers.

Director and screenwriter Barry Jenkins - author of the 89th Best Feature Film Golden Statue - gasped in shock. He supposed that even in his dreams, he couldn't think of this.

The Oscars are like many other awards in that guests always see the red carpet as a place to show off their individuality and beauty. Taking advantage of this, the beautiful beauties competed in revealing, revealing, offensive clothes to attract attention.

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