shesnake:

there are so many filmmakers today outside of hollywood, and especially outside of the west, trying new things and using the art form in such innovative ways to tell such interesting and diverse stories and sure, while it is sad the academy hardly acknowledges any of them, we really shouldn’t wait and rely on such a notoriously limited and self-serving capitalist institution to tell us if they’re good or not

of course it’s a shame that the academy only watched 5 movies last year, but it pains me to see the way people taking this to mean “cinema is dead” and/or “people dont make good films anymore” because there really are so many amazing and talented people out there who renew my love for this medium every single day with their incredible work

instead of complaining about snubs (or at least in addition to doing that) try to actively seek these new gems out. go out to that one indie cinema that’s a little bit out of the way for you, stream whatever you can online, borrow dvds from your local library, attend those foreign film festivals in your city only old people seem to have time for. if it’s within your financial capacity, support these artists any way you can. cinema is too beautiful for us to wait around and go off what the academy has deemed patable, more of us need to go out and decide and enjoy for ourselves