jon@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Jonathan Gingerich) (03/10/86)
Just a short note. Several people have mentioned the L.A. Critics Award received by BRAZIL. I know very little about it, but I believe that it was an ad hoc group put together as part of the politics of getting the film released. Jon. Gingerich
reiher@ucla-cs.UUCP (03/12/86)
In article <2670@sdcrdcf.UUCP> jon@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Jonathan Gingerich) writes: >Just a short note. Several people have mentioned the L.A. Critics Award >received by BRAZIL. I know very little about it, but I believe that it was >an ad hoc group put together as part of the politics of getting the film >released. No, the LA Critics Awards (plural, they give out a whole slew, an award for best picture being but one of them) has been around lo these many years. I believe that they were originally gotten together more or less as a response to the New York Critics Awards, the feeling being, I suppose, that New York critics have a nerve to butt into LA's artform, and they should stick to theater. The LA critics association and the New York critics association have a long history of disagreement, and can almost always be counted on to give their awards to different films and people. The New York critics have a particularly strong bias in favor of foreign films. The LA critics have a fondness for American independent films and the less popular (in terms of money) American directors. -- Peter Reiher reiher@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU {...ihnp4,ucbvax,sdcrdcf}!ucla-cs!reiher