Oscars are over, out of touch with the audience and saddled with DEI requirements: expert

The 97th Oscars will be awarded on Sunday, but the road to the golden statue has been a bumpy one, marked with controversies and a lack of breakout frontrunners to draw audiences’ attention.“I feel really underwhelmed by this year’s nominations, wins at other award shows (such as the Golden Globes) and predicted wins at the Oscars,” a Reddit user said on a forum dedicated to the Oscars. Another agreed, writing, “I’m just not all that excited about most of the films this year.Bit of a meh year especially after last year.

And the constant drama this season has been annoying, I don’t care about that.”“So many Oscar voters have told me the Oscars jumped the shark.They feel this is the end of Oscars in some ways,” Fox News’ contributor and host of the “Arroyo Grande” podcast Raymond Arroyo told Fox News Digital.“I think most people haven’t seen any of these movies to be excited about them,” he continued, citing films like “Emilia Perez,” “Anora,” and “The Brutalist” as some of the contenders bringing in awards at other shows this season that haven’t drawn the kind of excitement from regular viewers.“‘Wicked’s’ really the only movie that’s been a box office success that’s nominated for best picture.

All these other films, they’re small arthouse movies at best,” Arroyo said.Per BoxOfficeMojo, only two of the best picture nominees, “Wicked” and “Dune: Part Two,” cracked the top ten in ticket sales last year. “Inside Out 2,” and “Deadpool & Wolverine” took the top two spots, with a raft of franchise sequels rounding out the top ten, like “Moana 2,” “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” and “Twisters.”“They are not taking into account popular tastes when making these choices,” Arroyo explained of the nominees.

“And you have a group of people acting in isolation from their audience, which is a huge problem.When you claim to speak as the cultural mouthpiece and center of the coun...