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Re:Apple TV+ Wins Academy Award for the Boy, the Mole, the F... by mattnewton on Monday March 13, 2023 @01:30AM (#35131489)
Whew, I saw the animated shorts this year and I am rather surprised this won. The best I can say about it is that it clearly had the largest budget?
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Re:Apple TV+ Wins Academy Award for the Boy, the Mole, the F... by markdown on Monday March 13, 2023 @01:48AM (#35131620)
Is that one movie, or four?
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Re:Apple TV+ Wins Academy Award for the Boy, the Mole, the F... by INTPenis on Monday March 13, 2023 @01:59AM (#35131713)
Click the link, it's one animated short film.
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Re:Apple TV+ Wins Academy Award for the Boy, the Mole, the F... by Encrust6221 on Monday March 13, 2023 @01:56AM (#35131676)
I am not sure I understand the significance of this, anyone care to explain?
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Re:Apple TV+ Wins Academy Award for the Boy, the Mole, the F... by recuter on Monday March 13, 2023 @02:09AM (#35131778)
Amazon was the first streaming studio to win oscars about five years ago. Bezos incentivizes those employees with bonuses for emmys, oscars and other such awards.

Now Apple won one. Content production keeps users in the respective ecosystems and this is one of the KPIs.

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Re:Apple TV+ Wins Academy Award for the Boy, the Mole, the F... by prvc on Monday March 13, 2023 @02:32AM (#35131897)
>Now Apple won one.

CODA won best picture last year.

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Re:Apple TV+ Wins Academy Award for the Boy, the Mole, the F... by plantwallshoe on Monday March 13, 2023 @01:58AM (#35131697)
I found it to be saccharine and uninspired. Every line felt like some platitude you would find written on a faux distressed wooden sign at HomeGoods.

I see the animated shorts every year and it’s consistently my least favorite one that wins. It’s also usually the one put up by the biggest studio that wins.

I loved Ice Merchants.

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Re:Apple TV+ Wins Academy Award for the Boy, the Mole, the F... by password4321 on Monday March 13, 2023 @04:19AM (#35132645)
A Father and Son’s Daring Cliff Dive | Ice Merchants | The New Yorker Screening Room

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhj74ZjfaQ8

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Re:Apple TV+ Wins Academy Award for the Boy, the Mole, the F... by the_shivers on Monday March 13, 2023 @01:58AM (#35131701)
Can't believe this won. Although I liked the art style, it was painfully mawkish. I was cringing at almost every line.

Maybe the other nominees were worse.

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Re:Apple TV+ Wins Academy Award for the Boy, the Mole, the F... by plantwallshoe on Monday March 13, 2023 @02:06AM (#35131754)
I thought the group this year was actually one of the better ones I can remember, but this one was the worst of the lot.
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Re:Apple TV+ Wins Academy Award for the Boy, the Mole, the F... by mattnewton on Monday March 13, 2023 @10:41AM (#35136305)
No, the nominees were great this year. I understand why my favorite coming of age teenager story “My Year of Dicks” didn’t win but I don’t understand how anyone watched Ice Merchants and then this one and concluded this was better animated or had a better story
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Re:Apple TV+ Wins Academy Award for the Boy, the Mole, the F... by recuter on Monday March 13, 2023 @02:00AM (#35131716)
Don't know about this year but last year the ratings were at about 10 million people (used to be 40+ million).

Thursday Night Football is 15+ million. Sunday Football 20+ million.

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