The best we can hope for from this event is...
People will watch more of the nominees. Not Academy viewers, 80% of whom will be 80% of the way to completion (aside from docs, international, and shorts) when the nominations are announced, but real life people.
That's really it.
If real people are paying attention to the movies that get nominated, they might…
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