This year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences made a change to its traditional Oscar procedure - instead of five films competing for Best Picture, a full 10 would be up for the big prize. This was done to boost ratings by ensuring that more crowd-pleasers could be nominated along with the grim, low-grossing dramas that have become the ceremony's recent bread and butter.
The result was the most geek-friendly Best Picture lineup yet. Of the 10 nominees, almost half can be said to be at least somewhat geeky films.
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Imagine you're someone that produces media - or maybe you already do Perhaps you make video games, or manga, or fantasy novels. You have a good thing going, and of course you have competitors, but you can deal with them. You can do more, faster, better . . . except there's one competitor that's getting better all the time and has a LOT more material than you could ever produce.
The backlog of games, anime, comics, media etc. that's out there now. That's a growing competition for everyone working in media right now.
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