AI Snips
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Why Awards Matter
- The hosts argue awards are necessary as collective evaluative mechanisms for aesthetic judgment.
- Awards create a public focal point to debate which films matter beyond individual taste.
Citizen Kane's 1941 Snub
- They recount 1941 when Citizen Kane was nominated but lost Best Picture to How Green Was My Valley.
- The story illustrates how truly innovative works can be ignored at award time and only lauded later.
Trauma Delays Recognition
- Great artworks can be 'traumatic' and thus resist contemporary symbolic recognition.
- Only with historical distance do institutions and audiences often integrate those works into accepted greatness.