Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
The Oscars, it seems, are never not in a tough spot.
Its understandable that AMPAS would want to extend the eligibility period.
By April, we might have a vaccine.
Or an effective treatment.
Or at least a non-psychopath as president.
We live in uncertain times.)
And that would have been to not do anything at all.
Not move any dates.
Keep the eligibility period as usual.
Which is a shame.
Admittedly, you might not have seen or even heard of some of these films.
(And if you have, you may not like all of them.
I didnt likeVice, and that didnt seem to stop it from getting nominated.)
But Oscars are supposed to be about quality, and nowadays they seem so rarely to be about quality.
(ThinkJoker, thinkJojo Rabbit, thinkLa La Land.)
This devolution doesnt happen naturally.
It would also serve as a great platform to help people discover amazing new films.
Imagine that: An Oscars season that is not about glitz and glamour but about quality.
An Oscars season thats not overloaded with bloated biopics or self-important CGI spectacles.
Admittedly, it always seemed too good to be true.
