Talk:Academy Awards

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Objectivity and professionalism

I'm getting a little tired of the unprofessional and biased edits that have been made to the "Criticism" section of this article lately. Look, I understand that we all have our little beefs with the Academy's choices, but rants, uncited speculation and unecessary additions to this section are inappropriate and should be deleted immediately. Personally, I'm okay with the section as it is now, but I won't discourage someone from editing or adding something to change it, as long as it actually contributes something and doesn't make Wikipedia look like a fanboy forum. -- metafact (talk) 5:20, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Picture representing the article

I am new to the editing side of Wikipedia, so please excuse me if I do not use the right vocabulary, etc. My issue with the article is that the picture we see when researching it is that of the latest Best Actor winner. I dislike the idea that the Best Actor is representing the whole Awards, mostly because it puts him at a «higher» rank than the Best Actress. I do not suggest replacing the picture with that of the Best Actress. I believe it would be more representative to use a picture from the Best Movie winner, or of the statuette. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mariannellp (talk • contribs) 20:26, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

I strongly agree and believe the image associated with this page should be the statuette and not any particular actor or actress. The section on images in Page Previews says that the image displayed should be the first image in the InfoBox, which is the statuette, so it's unclear why it is showing anything from the second InfoBox. Slvrstn (talk) 16:57, 19 May 2019 (UTC)

The image in the first infobox, File:Academy Award trophy.png, is a non-free fair use image. The third point in the Images in the Page Previews guideline states that such non-free images can be skipped. This is consistent with the non-free content guidelines that emphasize that non-free images should be used as little as possible. There are other factors that may cause other images to be skipped like width and aspect ration, but to guarantee that the latest Best Actor winner stops showing up in the previews, you need to move the second infobox out of the lead section. Zzyzx11 (talk) 23:52, 25 April 2021 (UTC)

Accusations of Plagiarism

I expected the plagiarism section of this article to be about accusations people have made that the Oscar shows steal jokes or sketch ideas, but instead it's about small selection of films that were accused of stealing their stories. Even if these films were nominated for Oscars, I don't think the accusations of plagiarism are related to the Oscars at all and am suggesting the sub-section be removed altogether. It's not even close to an exhaustive list of controversies related to films nominated for Oscars either.

 Done, you're right, thanks, it is tangential to the topic. Randy Kryn (talk) 16:24, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

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Dear Oscars

Nobody thinks your winners are the best. Because you don't award the actual best. 103.180.170.44 (talk) 10:27, 1 December 2022 (UTC)