Oscars are an awful metric as they represent the views of american movie industry and their political values.
Italy, France and Germany used to be movie making and pop music international powerhouses until the 70's. Since then their cultural products barely get noticed in their own countries and in the rare occasions they try to reach foreign markets they do with english language products.
Would be fun to see some statistics like foreign language songs in national music charts in Europe over time. I bet korean language songs are more likely to chart in Europe than european but not in english and not local songs.
Complete cultural victory for the Anglophones over Mainland Europeans.
"Second, start with the list of Oscar wins, a rare critic-award."
The Oscars have nothing to do with critics. They are voted on by members of the US academy of motion pictures, a trade group consisting of 19 branches that work on different aspects of production. Only some branches are eligible to vote on certain awards (directors probably can't vote for best costumes, costume people not for actor). Everyone votes on best picture type stuff, but that means you're getting lots of technical voters and vapid artists giving popularity opinions rather than real artistic merit you might expect from critics.
Oscars are an awful metric as they represent the views of american movie industry and their political values.
Italy, France and Germany used to be movie making and pop music international powerhouses until the 70's. Since then their cultural products barely get noticed in their own countries and in the rare occasions they try to reach foreign markets they do with english language products.
Would be fun to see some statistics like foreign language songs in national music charts in Europe over time. I bet korean language songs are more likely to chart in Europe than european but not in english and not local songs.
Complete cultural victory for the Anglophones over Mainland Europeans.
"Second, start with the list of Oscar wins, a rare critic-award."
The Oscars have nothing to do with critics. They are voted on by members of the US academy of motion pictures, a trade group consisting of 19 branches that work on different aspects of production. Only some branches are eligible to vote on certain awards (directors probably can't vote for best costumes, costume people not for actor). Everyone votes on best picture type stuff, but that means you're getting lots of technical voters and vapid artists giving popularity opinions rather than real artistic merit you might expect from critics.
I didn't even expect Iran to have two film on the Oscars list winners, how can this theocratic country have 2 Oscars and Russia only 1? It's bullshit.
I saw a post or two, but it's mostly paywalled, so I can't read it.