Idea: BD.com Community Academy Awards. Discussion/Suggestions/Etc

[Romulus]

Okay, I'm probably best known for doing the monthly "Blu-ray Community Top 25 X Films". If you don't know, for the month of February I planned on doing the Top 25 films of 2009 (and maybe we still will), but after reading through the Rotten Tomatoes forum (I'm not a member there) I came across what I thought was a pretty unique thread. Basically they have their own version of the Academy Awards in which members nominate films for Best Picture, actors for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and so on and so forth. I quite liked the idea, although I thought there were some flaws.

Regardless, I created this thread because I wanted to get feedback from everybody on this. I feel that this would be a community effort, and frankly if I came up with all the rules and guidelines I feel like that would be a little totalitarian. Before I get into my concerns and what you guys can suggest, I'll show you how it's set up:

Best Film (10)
Best Actor (5)
Best Actress (5)
Best Supporting Actor (5)
Best Supporting Actress (5)
Best Original Screenplay (5)
Best Adapted Screenplay (5)
Best Musical Score (5)
Best Cinematography (5)
Best Documentary (5)
Best Foreign Film (5)
Best Visual Effects (3)

That's how RottenTomatoes does their version, but I immediately had some concerns:

1st - How many people would like to participate? RottenTomatoes community is a LOT bigger than ours, and turnout was pretty mediocre for their size. Please let me know. For the lists I usually create we usually have around 50 people submit a list. This would be a lot more expansive and I feel that could drive some people away. If you have concerns/suggestions that would make this easier, see my 2 following inputs or gladly add onto them.

2nd - I suggest that 'Best Film' be cut down to 5. I think it's a shame that the Academy expanded the Best Picture field to 10. I think it would be better suited to 5, it's more of an honor that way.

3rd - Making certain fields optional for filling out. I can see people having a really hard time filling out Best Documentary, Best Foreign Film or even Best Screenplays (Original/Adopted). I think it would be easier if we made the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor/Actress, and Best Supporting Actress/Actor fields required, while making all others optional.

I've got a pretty good list of other concerns that I could write but basically I just want to see how many people would like this to be done in the first place. There's plenty of stuff that I feel needs to be worked out, I don't plan on actually getting the ball on this project rolling until mid-January and having the awards at the end of February (a week before Oscars). I created this thread early so we can work on the details and a few other things.


Suggestions? Comments? Violent objections?