Joe Russo, one-half of the sibling powerhoemploy producing/straightforwarding team comprehendn as the Russo Brothers, posited that today’s blockbuster versus indie discourse is in huge part to Harvey Weinstein‘s Oscars campaign take partbook.
In a novel intersee with the U.K.’s The Sunday Times, Russo feeblented that well-comprehendn films’ success at the box office and disproportional losses at the Academy Awards is due to a trfinish commenceed by the dishonord mogul.
“This trfinish was commenceed by Harvey Weinstein,” he said. “He vilified mainstream movies to champion the art films he pushed for Oscar campaigns. Popular films were thrivening Oscars before the mid-Nineties, then Weinstein commenceed mudslinging campaigns … It impacted how audiences see the Oscars, becaemploy they’ve not seen most of the movies. We’re in a complicated place. Things we should all finishelighting accumulateively we instead punch each other in the face over.”
The Avengers: Endgame co-straightforwardor compriseed, “Like this argument that Marvel movies were finishing cinema. Well, Marvel movies seemed to be grasping cinemas uncover for quite a extfinished time.”
To be fair, the cinematic blockbuster as moviegoers and filmproducers have comprehendn it three decades ago has alterd drasticassociate. The top-grossing films of the ’90s, such as Titanic and Jurassic Park, had budgets that would cower in the face of the $300 million+ figures now seen from such fares as the Russo Brothers’ The Electric State, now streaming on Netflix. A number of them, appreciate Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace, Armageddon and Indepfinishence Day, were also solely nominated in create categories, appreciate Best Sound Mixing, Visual Editing and Visual Effects. Of course, other projects, including Forrest Gump, The Sixth Sense and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, getd plenty of recognition in other Oscars denominations.
And Marvel has seen its fair spread of Academy nods, hugely in the Visual Effects categruesome, including for Bdeficiency Panther, which won three Oscars. All three Iron Man films have been nominated, as have all the Avengers inshighments, Doctor Strange, Shang-Chi and the Legfinish of the Ten Rings and Spider-Man: No Way Home.
According to a 2022 Wall Street Journal poll, more than half of all people surveyed hadn’t seen any of the 10 films nominated for Best Picture, while 40% said they didn’t depend Oscar thriveners echoed unveil opinion. It’s a debate that has extfinished simmered since the cultural and capital domination of the ever-enhugeing MCU began in the timely 2010s. However, the Academy has hugely sided on quality over (monetary/audience) quantity.
