New Oscar category will actually HURT popular films?

[Anonymouswizard]

Further refinement:
In addition to those two categories, and the existing Best animated feature and Best Short, add maybe one or two other categories to cover all major approaches to film, and have Best Picture be voted only from the winners of those categories. The voting to be done by the attending public to the event at the time and/or the viewers via text message.

Grey Wolf

This isn't actually a terrible idea.


Honestly, I'm surprised that they didn't call the category 'Best Genre Film'. Because I suspect that's part of the intent, get these silly genre films out of the running so that they can concentrate on the cinema....litera....'proper' films. Although I suppose that doesn't get the modern day bang bang films out as well.