Abstract:

The digital revolution of cinema started with the post-production process and has changed all the dynamics of film production and distribution today and brought a new discipline. Festivals, awards and competitions, which are an area where films can introduce and highlight themselves, are also organizations that are directly affected by digitalized cinema, such as the creation of selections from the past to the present, the evaluation and rewarding of films. This research aims to question the nomination preferences of the Academy Awards, where mostly the films produced by the mainstream American cinema from past to present, compete with the digital revolution, the preferences of the candidates fort he competition films and different geographies on the axis of digitalized cinema cameras. This descriptive field study uses the embedded theory method with a systematic pattern. Limitation is determined as the period between 2006-2023 at the Academy Awards. As a result, after 2010, it is revealed that a structural transformation has been experienced in which non-American mainstream cinema production, low-budget independent films competed and won awards in many categories, including the “Best Picture” award at the Academy Awards, and films produced for digital platforms could compete.

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