New Oscar Categories - What Would You Choose?

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Assuming you could add a new category for the Oscars, what would you choose?

I think it would be interesting, every 10 years, to add “Best Film Of The Decade”.
You could nominate other Oscar winning films of the year, or perhaps films that were nominated and didn’t win, or even films that weren’t nominated. Sometimes, in retrospect, films that were not a hit in first run later became cult favorites, or people discovered them in DVD release or whatever - many great films get passed over for many reasons.

What new category would you like to see at the Oscars someday?

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Mmmh. Best V-actor? I mean, look at the Computer Generated characters in movies like “Avatar”. Or maybe divide the FX oscar into “traditional” (explosions, make up…) and “cgi”.

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Best Cast, I think.

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Best Trailer

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Best Con Trick Trailer. The trailer that most effectively made solid dreck look like essential, quality entertainment, without actually cheating or including stuff that wasn’t in the movie etc.

Hardest Earned Agent’s Fee. Awarded when an actor managed to get a well-paid leading role for which they were never even remotely suited, and this fact was strikingly obvious to the entire world even as soon as it was announced.

Best Use Of CGI. Awarded to any big-budget, impressive movie that didn’t use CGI at all. Anywhere.

Biggest Contribution To Asian Economies. Awarded to whichever was this year’s ‘hot’ movie for the piracy trade, i.e. the one that was most quickly and aggressively pirated, copied and ripped off via all known channels, making a fair chunk of change for someone in Asia. Colloquially known as the Avataro.

It Was Better As A Blank DVD. Awarded to whichever movie you watched on DVD and thought to yourself, actually, you would have derived more pleasure and enjoyment from the thing back when it was just a blank DVD, with nothing on it.

Most Crass Naughty Bits Avoidance. Awarded to the movie featuring the most tiresome ‘love’ scene featuring a big-name star with a ‘no naughty bits’ contract, resulting in ridiculous directorial contrivance reminiscent of the Austin Powers teapot scene. This particular Oscar statuette comes with a small potted plant in front of it, at about waist height.

Stupidest Invulnerable Hero Scene. The hero is being chased by 29 bad guys armed with blazing machine guns. He manages to get away unscathed by (a) scurrying along rather furtively and (b) ducking a little now and again. Oscar is awarded to whichever movie features the least plausible version of this oft-recycled scene. Colloquially known as the Die Hard Oscar.

Best Oscar Chaser. Awarded to whichever movie was obviously conceived from the start as a way for someone to win an Oscar.

The Terry. A half-made Oscar statuette awareded annually to Terry Gilliam, just for being him and because he’s still trying to make wonderful, innovative and visually magical movies, even though these days they just don’t work.

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snicker Naughty Bits avoidance is the best.

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You win **ianzin **- bravo.

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Best Breasts in a Leading Role

Best Breasts in a Supporting Role

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I wish they’d follow the lead of some of the other awards and have Best Drama and Best Comedy/Musical - comedies almost never win Best Picture just because people think of that as a “very serious award”.

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The Villian Oscar. To the villian you begin cheering for to off the “Hero” because the lead actor is hammy, sappy, self-absorbed, and/or disinterested in anything other than a paycheck.

Voldie (old no-nose) in the current Harry Potter as an example. I know it’s fruitless, but I’m rooting for him to cruely dispatch the trio of no-talent, unsympathetic muppets in the next part of the thriller :rolleyes:

Back to the first rant. A PAYCHECK Oscar for “mailing-it-in”. To be awarded after the lifetime achievment award for Michael Caine.

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With a Lifetime Achievement Award to Keanu Reeve’s agent

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No, that should be “Best Breasts (Supporting)” and name it after Howard Hughes for his work with Jane Russell.

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Jessica Alba, Good Luck Chuck

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Most Deceitful Trailer - Remember that Alzheimers weepy that made you swear off going to the movies for 3 years? You were right - the trailer you saw on TV did make it sound like a movie centered on a child raising 3 puppies (who were actually in the film, but for about 2 minutes).

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ianzin - bravo!

For reference, these are the current awards (list taken from the Nominees & Winners for the 82nd Academy Awards)

Actor in a Leading Role
Actor in a Supporting Role
Actress in a Leading Role
Actress in a Supporting Role
Animated Feature Film
Art Direction
Cinematography
Costume Design
Directing
Documentary (Feature)
Documentary (Short Subject)
Film Editing
Foreign Language Film
Makeup
Music (Original Score)
Music (Original Song)
Best Picture
Short Film (Animated)
Short Film (Live Action)
Sound Editing
Sound Mixing
Visual Effects
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Writing (Original Screenplay)

I like the suggestions of “Best Film of the Decade”, and also “Best actor in a cgi role” because cgi roles will doubtless be more common in the near future.

My idea: since we have Best Foreign Language Film, we should have Best Actor (Foreign Language Film) and Best Actress (Foreign Language Film) - the Oscars are too USA-centric.

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Meryl Streep gets her own category.

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+1. My thoughts exactly.

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I do with there was a Best Ensemble award, like they have at the SAG Awards.

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I’d like to see them separate the acting awards into ones for veteran performers and ones for newcomers.

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Best Adaptation would be an awesome idea.

I’d like to see more genre awards:
Best Horror film
Best Sci-Fic film
Best Thriller film
Best Adventure film
Best Family film (up to a PG-13 rating here)
You know, so movies people actually see might win for something plot-related.