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- noun film A film perceived to be designed at least partially in order to win an Academy Award.
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I think Oscar bait is a way of taking a whole set of aesthetic objections to a movie, which may or may not be legitimate, and turning them into an accusation about what was in the hearts and minds of the people who made the movies.
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The term Oscar bait has come to sum up this glut of well-made, often earnest productions, which prove that prestige movie-making can be as formulaic as genre blockbusters. In its most dispiriting form, awards bait is Rami Malek wearing fake teeth and lip-syncing to Queen’s greatest hits in Bohemian Rhapsody, or whatever Crash was.
How Oscar bait took over awards season, from method acting to prosthetic honkers Katie Rosseinsky 2024
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