Frances Fisher is at it again

[just444]

Frances Fisher already working for the cause pic.twitter.com/6b1moEQYRA
- Poncho X 🎬 (@JavierAIfonso) January 11, 2024

source 2Frances (you probably know as the mean mom from Titanic) was the driving force behind Andrea Riseborough's "little movie with a big heart" best actress campaign that got her in quite some trouble with AMPAS

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[anterrabre]

The more I see Hollywood studios dropping the ball on promoting their releases, the more I'm beginning to think Riseborough had a point. What do you do when you do something that you're proud of, and the studio refuses to promote it?

[doriiansz]

The entire system is flawed as hell. It's a bunch of old white greedy men who dgaf about film anymore. All they're interested is quick 💲 I mean they can help make an entire movie, but not release it and then just delete it from existence like it's nothing. Absolutely deranged and soulless behavior.

[la_petite_singe]

True. The specifics of the To Leslie campaign were messy, but as someone who sees way too many movies, every year I can name at least 10 that are (imo) deserving of some kind of awards attention, but aren't even close to getting it because they're too small and not attached to big names/studios. :\

[afeelingunacted]

I mean awards are basically a joke with a handful of preselected people competing against each other for a meaningless trinket that will get them a little more money. The more everyone realizes this the better.🤷🏻‍♀️

[vibeology_e]

This is exactly it. I love most of the potential nominees this year but tell me why Annette Bening is getting nominated for Nyad but Teyana Taylor for example isn’t getting the same recognition for A Thousand and One.

It’s money, it’s the idea that Annette is due because she’s been in the club for so long and it’s racism. Plus Focus has another movie with better chances so her film and her performance had to take a backseat.

Because Nyad is an okay movie but not great. The performance is solid. Jodie is slightly stronger. But Annette is a familiar name and Netflix had money so she’s hovering around the bottom of the list while someone like Teyana or Aunjanue aren’t in the conversation.

I love awards season because watching the race is fun but I know that it isn’t a true judgement of what’s best. It’s who had the right campaign, story and performance hit at the right time.

[peddlestools]

the funny thing to me about nyad is it's actually based on a fraud

[miwa201]

tbh if i was annette idk why i'd bother. she's not winning so why even campaign for yet another nomination? it's different from glenn with the wife bc she had a shot at winning. annette is barely hanging on

[anterrabre]

Except it's important to the people who work in that field, regardless of how flighty you might view that profession. Everyone likes commendations for a job well done, and the absolute bare minimum you expect from your studio is to put throw sort of advertising/promotion to get buzz and these studios aren't even doing that; I mean, I've seen more advertising on ONTD plus good WOM for The Claw than what the studio has done, and that should not be happening.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Yeah those awards for the below the line fields really do help. Catherine Martin, who does all the costume design for Baz Luhrmann, mentioned that although she’s the one who goes home with the Oscar statue, anytime she wins it’s a win for people who worked under her.

She says being part of an Oscar-winning projects especially in your field, it looks really good on your resume because it makes you standout and get more jobs. A few who worked under Oscar-winning projects would later go on to win Oscars themselves. Even just getting a nom helps to cause Gina Prince-Bythewood said that something about getting recognition by the guilds gets more jobs.

[anterrabre]

Exactly. The team that works under Ruth E. Carter (Black Panther and several Spike Lee movies) and a lot of the CG teams operate the same way. Oscar-winning team = more work. I have a friend with a bike who won a creative Emmy for their work on an animation sries, and it most definitely got them a lot more work.

Other professions also have award ceremonies where they recognize the best of their best, but people have an extremely nasty tendency to consider anything in the arts as being undeserving in many ways because it's glamorous, or because it's "play."

[imightbewrong4]

it's actually hilarious how seriously gen pop takes this shit

[genbu_no_miko24]

Yeah I think the way they went around it wasn’t the best but I also do understand the issues with not getting promotion.

But that whole episode also told me how closed off the actors branch of the academy is cause they could’ve been nominating those roles loool!! I didn’t think they wielded that much power.