What Went Wrong with the Award's Campaign for "A Star Is Born"

[LilyLark 10,122]

7 minutes ago, DiamondAngel said:

What Bradley NYT interview? I didn't hear anything about that! 

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/27/movies/bradley-cooper-a-star-is-born.html

Another poster kind of accurately summed it up as something that probably would just be seen as being a messy bitch in the music industry, but in the film industry where you can't want it too much or want it too little...it was worse.  It's honestly not that bad, but obviously it had some sort of influence in the way folks campaign because I've seen it brought up again and again on Oscar/film twitter—way more than Gaga's memes.

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Wbk old men shouldn’t choose based on awards a being professional 

[WildAmerican 13,672]

32 minutes ago, PunkTheFunk said:

It peaked way too soon. I think had it been released in November or December we would be in a much different position.

what about the probable winner of Best Adapted Screenplay, BlacKkKlansman?

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If anything,  I think Gaga spoke too much of Bradley.  And Bradley did not have enough opportunity to compliment Gaga back for all her praises of him. 

Others who don't know Gaga being an amazing and supportive friend,  would think that Bradley had a famous singer vouch for him and coached her on what to say.  Gaga's strategy on multiple interviews during Perfect Illusion promo was the same though.  She sticks to a script. 

Gaga was always meme'd though so I'm not worried about that. 

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It's stupid that there needs to be a campaign. Even worse when the film is losing to some films that scored worse with critics..

[LilyLark 10,122]

1 minute ago, WildAmerican said:

what about the probable winner of Best Adapted Screenplay, BlacKkKlansman?

Adapted Screenplay is probably the weakest category of them all, so an early release wouldn't be as much as an issue.

 

Also, Spike is rightfully seen as being long overdue (and they do make exceptions for people they think are "owed," e.g. Julianne Moore and "Still Alice").  Also, the film was never a frontrunner for Best Picture or Best Director so it didn't suffer from having "too much" buzz despite an early release. Actually, no one thought Spike had a chance at winning Best Director until about a month ago—he sort of maintained a super low profile and the film had a slow but steady buzz instead of a huge "moment" and that ended up paying off for him. 

[Ronk 14,762]

12 minutes ago, LilyLark said:

Yeah, it's still a win. A commercial and critical success that racked up numerous nominations. And LBR, many of us did not expect it to come even close to what it ended up being.

I do kind of hate this narrative that just because a well regarded film doesn't win doesn't mean it's a failure or some shocking disaster or snub—there was a milder version of this a few years ago with Carol, which was nominated for several Oscars and a lot of awards but walked away with nothing like ASIB despite originally being seen as a front runner. Winning isn't everything.

Are you saying Gaga won't win best original song?

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**** them stinky bitches

[LilyLark 10,122]

1 minute ago, Ronk said:

Are you saying Gaga won't win best original song?

lol that's not what I meant. I defn. think she'll win best song, I just worded that a bit off.

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[Ziggy 11,950]

I mean, among other reasons already stated, the movie is a bit uneven and "white" when diversity is the thing being pushed this year. It doesn't feel nearly as necessary or immediately relevant despite what Gaga says on the press junket. Something like Black Panther (even though I wouldn't necessarily argue it as Best Picture either) is much more relevant to current conversation as is Roma.

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Something high quality got mega-popular with the masses and then narcissistic hipster film snobs decided they now hate it

*pretends to be shocked* 

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Hmm I was under the impression that the Oscar's haven't happened yet.

[Ronk 14,762]

14 minutes ago, LilyLark said:

lol that's not what I meant. I defn. think she'll win best song, I just worded that a bit off.

Thanks.  I think she'll win too.  Are they allowing more than 90 seconds for Shallow now?  I haven't been keeping up.

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What went wrong was that it wasn’t the best movie of the season