Spectacle is just expensive math, and indie fests already cover quiet dramas. The Oscars must reward artistic originality to actually push the medium of cinema forward.
Originality also ages better: effects date, formulas blur, but a new cinematic language keeps influencing filmmakers long after awards season.
Spectacle may dazzle the crowd, but common sense says intimate drama builds steadier craft and lasting value. Nurture small stories, and the art grows like a well-tended garden, not a flashy fireworks show.
Originality seeds new tools, forms, and dialogue; it trains the eye and mind, forging cinema's future rather than gilding a single spectacle.
