Back in 2018, the Academy Awards introduced a brand new Oscar, to be given to the Best Popular Film of the 12 months. The concept was to acknowledge the blockbusters that usually dominate the field workplace however by no means handle to make it to the Best Picture class. It didn’t go over well, and now, it’s getting worse.

The authentic announcement of the brand new class was roundly criticized, partially as a result of it was a really bare try to get extra folks to look at the Academy Awards ceremony, partially as a result of it might nearly actually knock these blockbusters out of Best Picture rivalry, and largely as a result of the class appeared to have been created so the immensely in style Black Panther may win an Oscar, which gave off an actual disagreeable “separate but equal” vibe. So the Academy determined to take the concept again to the workshop and check out to determine the way it would possibly work, and determined, by some means, that Twitter was the reply.

Starting at this time, and going by way of March 3, folks can vote on 2021’s Best Popular Movie on Twitter utilizing the hashtag #OscarsFanFavorite. Yes. Twitter.

I might say that the Academy should have some system in place to maintain folks from voting greater than the 20 allowed instances per day, or for voting for a number of movies, however the truth it thought bringing this resolution to Twitter within the first place was a good suggestion just about proves to me that this resolution hasn’t been thought by way of. At the very least, there’s completely no manner the Academy has deliberate for no matter horrible sustained fan campaigns and bots and all the opposite horrors on Twitter that may make this a complete farce.

I’ve a tough time imagining any film aside from Spider-Man: No Way Home simply successful the “award”—which isn’t an official Oscars class, by the way in which, so actually who the hell cares—however you most likely can’t depend out the Snyder-bro fanatics from making an attempt to push Zack Snyder’s Justice League into the highest spot.

Fans can even be capable of vote for his or her favourite film scenes through the #OscarsCheerMoment hashtag, which shall be proven through the Academy Awards broadcast on March 23. The plan can be to provide three voters an all-expenses-paid journey to the ceremony to allow them to current an award in 2023, for some motive. Of course, that is all assuming this doesn’t instantly devolve right into a spectacular shit-show. I’d go to Twitter to test it out, however then I’d must get on Twitter, which, ick.

[Via THR]

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