Top 7 interesting importance of Award Ceremonies in Film Industry

“It doesn’t matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special”

                                    – Zinedine Zidane

Do you know, how Award Ceremonies impact Film Industry?

As time changes, we see the importance of Award Ceremonies. These days the film industry is celebrating award ceremonies in every corner of the world, either we name these industries – Hollywood, Bollywood, K Drams (Hallyuwood), etc. and their ceremonies – Academy Awards (a.k.a Oscars), Grammy, IIFA, etc.

The impact of these award ceremonies is so effective that even getting nominated for the same leads to a promising career in these Industries. And therefore we get the idea of the level of importance of award ceremonies in the film industry.

Let’s look at an elaborate version of their importance –

Importance of Award Ceremonies

1. Credibility for the movies:-

The current generation has the tendency to be selective while watching movies, and even they recognize the importance of award ceremonies, so there are the possibilities that they may hear about some movies but still ignore watching them. But the moment, some movies they heard of also gets an award, it immediately puts an impression of “this is worth watching because we know the importance of award ceremonies”, and they may go and watch that film.
This is how nominations and wins pull the audience.

2. Boost their Viewers:-

As the credibility towards that movie increases after nomination or wins, people (no matter the age) prefer to go and watch or download or purchase that movie/s online. These actions by viewers are natural and so the companies involved in the film industry always look forward to getting acknowledged and keeps on maintaining the importance of award ceremonies.

3. Validation:-

One of the importance of award ceremonies is that award’s wins and nominations reflect the quality as well as the volume of the companies involved in the movies. Either the production houses, the director of the movie, the cast, etc. are given a whole sum of credits for the winning, and their quality of work is taken to be effective in the industry.
Every factor that is involved in that movie, develops a trustworthy character.

4. Increase in profits:-

With the increase in viewers and their interests over the production houses, casts, directors there are possibilities of getting positive response in their upcoming feature films and shows that ultimately benefits in their box office records. And thus, profit makes an impact and increase the importance of award ceremonies.

5. Recognition to Actors & Actresses:-

Award winners – Actors: Actresses are recognized by the spectators on a vast level, they start following them, and they look for their stories and other available movies so far done by them. The film crew gets new heights in their careers,
Now, these ceremonies become one of the important platforms for newcomers, as these awards functions always provide spotlights to new talents in the industry.

6. Networking:-

The film industry is a people industry. In there, it is not what you know, but whom.
Film industry people are well aware of all the importance of award ceremonies. When you attend such ceremonies you meet with like-minded people, persons from distinguished fields, talents, responsibilities. It’s a great way to extend your circle.

7. Diversity:-

The film industry takes us to a different world, through their creativity, and they narrate a story in a very innovative way, you can see Sci-fi movies, romantic movies, documentaries, etc.
And not just only they build an imaginary stage they also point out the crucial topics of society.
Few examples can be, Slumdog Millionaire, Interstellar, Inception, etc.
And award functions, stamps on those movies “a must watch”, to keep them performing their bests.

With all these benefits, it becomes necessary for an industry to hold such ceremonies, and bring new faces in front of the world.

Some of the famous Award functions are –

Film Industry Award Functions

• The Academy Award – The Oscars

• BAFTA Award – The British version of Academy Awards

• Golden Globe Awards – Global Films & Television both are recognised

• The Cannes International Film Festival – Palme D’Or, recognised for new films

• Filmfare Awards – Hindi Film Industry

And many more…

Awards play an omnipresent phenomenon in the modern film industry.

Conclusion on the impact

The film industry reflects different ideas of seeing things, they act as the voice of the crowd. They make sure that the trust and the importance of award ceremonies that the common person is aware of, does not get denied. In the same way, Awards play an important role to promote these feature films of the industry so that they can get successful public recognition.

With this I hope you will not miss the upcoming film industry awards, to not just cheer for those who did hard work, but for also making a new list every year to watch or let just say binge watch.

Would like to connect with the author? – Nikita Sinha

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