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Here’s What Barry Jenkins Would Have Said In His ‘Moonlight’ Acceptance Speech At The 2017 Oscars

There was, as we all know, a famous glitch in the delivery of Moonlight‘s Best Picture Oscar, and Jenkins was so overwhelmed at the time that he didn’t get to read his speech. So at this week’s South by Southwest Festival, he read it. He added quite a bit, as well – for instance: “When I looked back at those kids, sitting in my chair … watching me make this film that’s gonna go on to win Best Picture, I see they see in me the dream I never allowed myself to have. It floored me.”

Canadian Screen Awards Exclude Some Of Canada’s Most Popular Movies. And Everyone Seems Okay With That

Simply put, nominating popular movies and shows could make the Canadian Screen Awards more popular, which could theoretically bring more attention to other, less prominent nominees. There is some precedent for a regionally based award show with less-than-stringent eligibility rules: the BAFTA Award organizers, for instance, allow themselves significant leeway to decide which films are sufficiently British (their TV award restrictions are more rigid). It also separates the categories, with an award for Best Film and another for Outstanding British Film. But that hypothetical trickle-down of viewer attention doesn’t persuade many of this year’s Canadian Screen Award nominees that opening competition up to more American productions would work.

‘It Tore The Cover Off A City’: An Oral History Of ‘The Wire’, Ten Years On

Creator and showrunner David Simon sold The Wire to HBO as “the anti-cop show, a rebellion of sorts against all the horseshit police procedurals afflicting American television.” Says actor Aidan Gillen, “It dealt with issues that no other shows would be interested in dealing with. It didn’t compromise in any areas. To get it, you had to watch and listen, and there was a risk that people might not have bothered, but they did.”

Obamas In Talks With Netflix For New Series

“Under terms of a proposed deal, which is not yet final, Netflix would pay Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, for exclusive content that would be available only on the streaming service, which has nearly 118 million subscribers around the world. The number of episodes and the formats for the shows have not been decided.”

Don’t Blame The Movies For Oscars’ Low Ratings

Right-wing culture warriors and the Hollywood old guard like to argue that it’s because liberal Hollywood has lost touch with its audience, but there’s an ugly undertone to leveling that accusation in a year when the academy’s membership, at least in terms of demographics, is more like the country as a whole than ever before. In some ways, the academy’s taste has actually gotten more populist.

Ross Douthat: A Cultural Explanation For The Decline Of The Oscars

The key problem for the Oscars is not, as Hollywood’s critics on the right sometimes suggest, that the movie industry’s liberal politics are dragging down both box office numbers and Oscar ratings — that the desire to preach is swamping the desire to entertain. There is a political problem, but it is secondary: The key issue for the academy is that the Hollywood system no longer produces enough of the kind of movies that a mass-audience awards spectacle requires.

Last Of The Movie Projectionists

As the movie industry has gradually shifted from 35mm to simpler, less finicky, more device-friendly digital film, even moviegoers at places like BAM—who tend to be better versed in the finer points of cinematic geekery—are often unaware or unimpressed to learn that they’re being treated to screenings in older formats.

Netflix Says Most Subscribers Watch On Their TVs

Netflix says 70 percent of its streams end up on connected TVs instead of phones, tablets or PCs. That number isn’t a shock — Netflix has been clear about the importance of TVs for a long time, and it’s why the company has spent a lot of energy working out integration deals with pay TV distributors like Comcast and Sky — but it’s a good reminder that not everything is moving to the phone.