01. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and 02. Sciences has announced a new category in 03. time for next February’s awards ceremony: 04. “achievement in popular film”. The idea is 05. that, alongside the time-honoured “Best 06. Picture” category, there will be another for 07. films which have a broader appeal: 08. blockbusters, in other words. Ironically, the 09. announcement has been anything but 10. popular. On social media, responses to this 11. idea have ranged from hostile to very hostile 12. indeed. Many feel that the once-prestigious 13. Oscars are dumbing down to the level of the 14. MTV Awards. What’s next—Best kiss? Loudest 15. shoot-out? Most skyscrapers flattened by 16. aliens in a single action sequence? 17. The concept of the “Hit Oscar” or the 18. “Popcorn Oscar”, as it has been nicknamed, 19. raises other questions, too. To start with, who 20. decides whether or not a film is popular? 21. What are the criteria or thresholds? And isn’t 22. it an insult to nominees, the implicit 23. suggestion being that hit films can’t be artistic 24. (and vice versa)? 25. The timing, too, is off. “Black Panther”, 26. Marvel’s Afrofuturist superhero blockbuster, 27. could well have been nominated for best 28. picture in 2019. Indeed, it could well have 29. won, ……… acknowledging the superhero 30. boom as well as emphasising just how 31. successful films with black casts and creative 32. teams can be. But it is now likely that “Black 33. Panther” will be shoved into the “popular” 34. ghetto, and that the best-picture prize will go 35. to an indie drama. If so, the introduction of a 36. new category will have helped maintain the 37. status quo, rather than upending it. 38. It is understandable that the Oscars’ 39. organisers should want to shake up the 40. ceremony’s format, bearing in mind how low 41. its television ratings have fallen. One reason 42. for this decline, the theory goes, is that bestpicture winners are no longer the films that 43. the great American public is queuing up to 44. see. 45. But if hugely profitable, crowd-pleasing films 46. aren’t winning best picture these days, it is 47. not because the Academy’s voters are 48. becoming more snobbish or sophisticated in 49. their tastes. It is because Hollywood has 50. stopped making middlebrow historical epics 51. that used to be a shoo-in. What the 52. introduction of the popular category 53. acknowledges is that there are now hardly 54. any studio films in the chasm between shiny 55. comic-book movies and quirky indie 56. experiments. The industry is producing 57. nothing for grown-up viewers who want more 58. scale and spectacle than they can get from a 59. low-key drama, but who don’t fancy seeing 60. people in colourful costumes firing laser 61. beams at each other. 62. The new division between best picture and 63. popular picture may be ill-judged, but it 64. reflects a pre-existing dichotomy between 65. arthouse and multiplex fare. So have pity on 66. the poor Academy. If Hollywood studios 67. weren’t quite so obsessed with superhero 68. franchises, the Oscars might not be in this 69. mess in the first place.
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Considere as possibilidades de reescrita do segmento The new division between best picture and popular picture may be illjudged, but it reflects a pre-existing dichotomy between arthouse and multiplex fare (l. 63-66).
I. Ill-judged as the new division between best picture and popular picture may be, it reflects a pre-existing dichotomy between arthouse and multiplex fare.
II. Despite the fact that the new division between best picture and popular picture may be ill-judged, it reflects a pre-existing dichotomy between arthouse and multiplex fare.
III. Despite the possibility of being ill-judged, the new division between best picture and popular picture reflects a pre-existing dichotomy between arthouse and multiplex fare.
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