DisneyBizJournal.com on the Oscars

by Ray Keating

Analysis

DisneyBizJournal.com

February 9, 2020

The Oscars air tonight on ABC, and Disney has an impressive 23 nominations. Here are a few items from DisneyBizJournal to read and get you in the right frame of mind...

• “Will Fox Finally Bring Disney a Best Picture Oscar?” by Ray Keating– DisneyBizJournal.com– It’s surprising given its many successes over 90-plus years, but Disney has never won a Best Picture Oscar. In fact, it’s even more striking that coming into the 2020 Academy Awards ceremony, Disney previously had only five films nominated for Best Picture. Read at  

https://disneybizjournal.blogspot.com/2020/02/will-fox-finally-bring-disney-best.html

• “Animated Disney at the Oscars: The List of Winners and More” by Ray Keating – DisneyBizJournal.com – The first animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards was Disney’s 1991 Beauty and the Beast. A decade later came the Best Animated Feature Oscar, and domination by Disney. Read at  

https://disneybizjournal.blogspot.com/2020/02/animated-disney-at-oscars-list-of.html

• “Disney’s All-Time Oscar Count Heading Into the 92^ndAcademy Awards” by Ray Keating – DisneyBizJournal.com – Heading into Sunday night’s Oscars, Disney already has a staggering number of Oscar wins under its belt. Read at  

https://disneybizjournal.blogspot.com/2020/02/disneys-all-time-oscar-count-heading.html

• “Joker” vs. “Avengers: Endgame” by Ray Keating– DisneyBizJournal.com– “Joker” is the Oscars’ kind of superhero movie. How so? Well, it’s not really a superhero film. Meanwhile, “Avengers: Endgame” gets ignored. Read at 

https://disneybizjournal.blogspot.com/2020/01/joker-vs-avengers-endgame.html

• “Disney Cashes in on Fox Acquisition at Oscars” by Ray Keating - DisneyBizJournal.com –The Walt Disney Company’s Fox acquisition paid off quite nicely in terms of Oscar nominations. Get the rundown. Read at  

https://disneybizjournal.blogspot.com/2020/01/disney-cashes-in-on-fox-acquisition-at.html

• “Will the Oscars Finally Recognize Superhero Films? The Lord of the Rings Example” by Ray Keating – DisneyBizJournal.com – Can Avengers: Endgame lay waste to Hollywood’s Oscar bias against superheroes? The recent announcement regarding telecast dates of the Oscars got me thinking about whether or not Avengers: Endgame might finally have the power to break through the Academy’s opposition to superheroes. If there’s hope on this front, it can be found in The Lord of the Rings movies. Read at  

https://disneybizjournal.blogspot.com/2019/06/will-oscars-finally-recognize-superhero.html

Ray Keating is the editor, publisher and economist for DisneyBizJournal.com, and author of The Disney Planner 2020: The TO DO List Solution and the Pastor Stephen Grant novels. He can be contacted at  raykeating@keatingreports.com.