Mark Harris, a columnist I enjoy reading on Entertainment Weekly, wrote an article about 3 things the Academy of Motion Pictures, which oversees the Academy Awards, should overhaul.
I agree with him on all points and particularly on this one:
Although the same actor can be nominated in both lead and supporting categories (it’s happened about a dozen times, most recently for Cate Blanchett in 2007), the Academy will not allow an actor to be nominated for more than one performance within the same category.
[…] There’s not much to say about this rule other than that it’s so dumb that no other branch of the Academy shares the policy.
[…] A majority of the Academy clearly understands that there’s nothing wrong with a great year being reflected in a double nomination — so why not for actors? Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Carey Mulligan, Christopher Plummer, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Judi Dench are among the performers who’d conceivably be eligible to double- or even triple-dip this year; it’s unlikely that it would happen for any of them, which is exactly the reason to change the rule now rather than wait until it causes a real injustice. Actually, that’s already happened. In 1986, Dennis Hopper received his only acting Oscar nomination, for the basketball film Hoosiers. That achievement instantly disqualified all the votes he got for his other, rather more notable supporting performance that year — in Blue Velvet.
I don’t see any wrinkles with Harris’ reasoning. Composers, writers, directors, costume designers and others have gotten double - or more - nominations in the same category in the same year before, but that’s not allowed for actors unless they get nominated for a supporting and a leading category, and they would never be able to get three nominations. Ever.
That seems rather unjust and silly to me.
Read more here.
1 comment:
I totally agree.
Totally.
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