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Oscars 2024: Netflix Wins Just One Award and Apple Shut Out

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15 pointsisaacfrond16 comments

I understand that people dislike Netflix (price hike, account sharing, political content) and want to draw conclusions based on this, but one should remember that these awards are still pay-to-play. It didn't disappear with Weinstein. A win probably says more about the people involved than the movie itself.

Did Netflix release anything in 2023 that should have won an Oscar?

The academy awards are so competitive it’s really hard to try and evaluate any trends from it. I’m not sure you can really draw any significant conclusions from it.

For context, I’ve watched every Oscar-nominated movie after they get announced for the last five years. I’ve never felt that the production company was ever a significant factor in the ultimate winner. Who gets nominated in the first place, that’s a different story…

AppleTV and the associated original programming feels like a fail at this point, another attempt by Apple to throw money at markets they don't understand

you're being a bit too harsh here, AppleTV has produced series such as For All Mankind, Severance, Pachinko, Ted Lasso, Foundation, Silo, I think they're doing OK so far, TV is hard

Lasso and Foundation is pretty damn good.

It's sad season 1 of Foundation was rough to get started. The latter half and season 2 are amazing.

Can you watch season 2 first or standalone? I started s1e1 and haven't made it through it.

No. Power through 3-4 episodes. It gets much better.

>Foundation is pretty damn good

As long as you didn't read the books

Add Slow Horses to the list, it's great.

absolutely, it's actually up there with Severance as top tier from AppleTV

It does have TV in the name (Apple TV+), which the Oscars doesn’t cater for. Apple seems to be doing just fine (Ted Lasso, etc.) at the Emmys considering most of their originals are TV series AFAICT.

That's only to tie the service to the "Apple TV" hardware--(most) people still watch movies on their TVs at home.

As someone who doesn't understand the TV/Movie market, other than being an avid consumer of certain genres of their output, I'm curious what it is that Apple has misjudged with AppleTV+.

They won best picture at the Academy award two years ago, and seem to have been focusing on TV content. And, for what it's worth, Killers of the Flower Moon was a terrific feature film in its own right, was nominated for many categories, but certainly did not merit the best picture not. I'd argue this is a bit of a harsh criticism for a studio that, for all intents and purposes, seems to be doing quite well!

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