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There were already 80 Best Picture winners before this year's ceremonies! That's right, there were two Best Picture winners the first year of the Awards.
Wings for Best Production (Picture)
and...
Sunrise for Unique and Artistic Picture (also known as Artistic Quality of Production)
The second category was done away with after the first year as the studios apparently wanted to emphasize profits over art.
Cheers,
AuPh
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...since "Most Artistic" Picture hasn't existed as a category since the first Oscars - it was dropped the following year as you point out.
So...AMPAS apparently considers Best Production = Best Picture but "artistic" doesn't = "best".
IMO, Sunrise is one of the few truly great motion pictures to win an Oscar, whatever however.
So it goes.
I couldn't help notice that there was no mention of Brad Renfro in the memorial section.
That's the American Way. What place does ART have in America? It is only enjoyed by the rich elite. An award given by a mutual admiration society? Yes, it's nice to be recognized by one's peers but wouldn't a totally unbiased judging body be more appropriate.
"I take you as you are
And make of you what I will,
Skunk-bear, carcajou, bloodthirsty
non-survivor.
Lord, let me die but not die out." FOR THE LAST WOLVERINE by James Dickey
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True enough years, decades... centuries ago when they were the amongst the few to have exposure to it .
Things are a bit more equitable these days though and there are many forms of art to be enjoyed by all, regardless of wealth or position.
As regards the self serving, mutual admiration society of the "Oscars": the heartfelt acceptance speeches by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova alone prove there are always exceptions to the rule, and that cynicism and the jaded POV can always be conquered...
"...You're all welcome to stay for the next set...we're going to play all the same tunes, but in different keys..." -Count Basie
Showed me this year's level of creativity hit rock bottom. Short clip of the last 79 winners? Yawn.
There's a muscle on her arm
With a red and blue tatoo
That says
Fort Worth I love you
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no sense in too much overlap and, the existing categories already cover the artistic side of things. If you were to sit down and make up a short list of the most important attributes in the quality of production, you will find most of these included in existing categories.
While more aspects of film artistry are covered these days the actually awarding of an Oscar for Best Picture was intentionally divided between artistic achievement and financial success initially without preference given to one over the other. Initially the Academy Awards were the idea of artists like Mary Pickford, but it was quickly usurped by the studios who saw the value (and prestige) of awarding their own products and stars as promotion under the 'guise' of artistic achievement.Original Academy members:
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* Richard Barthelmess
C
* Charles Christie
D
* Cecil B. DeMille
* Douglas FairbanksF
* Joseph Farnham
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* Cedric Gibbons
* Benjamin Glazer
* Sid GraumanH
* Jack Holt (actor)
K* Henry King (director)
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* Jesse L. Lasky
* Frank Lloyd
* Harold LloydM
* Jeanie MacPherson
* Louis B. Mayer
* Bess MeredythN
* Conrad Nagel
* Fred NibloP
* Mary Pickford
S* Joseph Schenck
* Milton Sills
* John M. StahlT
* Irving Thalberg
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* Raoul Walsh
* Harry Warner
* Jack Warner
* Carey Wilson (writer)
* Frank E. WoodsAnyway, you should do a bit more research. Sunrise was a HUGE critical success in 1928, but it only did moderate Box Office, certainly not enough to pay for it's enormous production costs, but it was an enormous prestige maker for Fox and made F.W. Murnau's name a permanent fixture in the pantheon of international directorial geniuses.
AuPh
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