This trend was started by Harvey Weinstein, he said.

He vilified mainstream movies to champion the art films he pushed for Oscar campaigns.

Popular films were winning Oscars before the mid-Nineties, then Weinstein started mudslinging campaigns …

Joe Russo / Harvey Weinstein

Joe Russo / Harvey WeinsteinGetty Images

It affected how audiences view the Oscars, because theyve not seen most of the movies.

Were in a complicated place.

Things we should all enjoying collectively we instead punch each other in the face over.

Ryan Reynolds as Nicepool puts his hand on his chest in a still from ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’; Justin Baldoni wears a man-bun and holds a microphone

Well, Marvel movies seemed to be keeping cinemas open for quite a long time.

However, the Academy has largely sided on quality over (monetary/audience) quantity.