Everything Everywhere All At Once won the Oscar for Best Picture, arguably the first science fiction film to do so. How have science fiction movies fared at the Oscars over the years? Are we living in a golden age of sci-fi movies? I break down which mainstream films could lay legitimate claim to Best Film of the Year.
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Michael Siegel is an astronomer living in Pennsylvania. He blogs at his own site, and has written a novel.
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It would be interesting to consider the very large number of movies about a dystopian future and rate them as to right or wrong. Eg Blade Runner, much as I like the movie, was set in 2019 Los Angeles. Which still has plenty of bright sunshine.Report
And in a lot of ways depicts technology that’s still very far in our (potential) future, if it is possible at all.
In my mind, when I see either Blade Runner movie, I add a hundred years to the stated date — it feels easier to accept the climate change, cultural change, and technology as being from 2119 rather than “about thirty years in the future” or worse yet “four years ago.”Report
I sympathize with the writers. It’s easy to seize on a concept — in a novel I read recently, create super-soldiers by designing their DNA from scratch — but it’s a bear to put such concepts at an appropriate distance in the future and then do the rest of the world-building.
Blade Runner had so many things hinted at: faster than light travel (“Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.”); complete DNA sequencing (“You think I would be working in a place like this if I could afford a real snake?”); cheap anti-gravity. Setting those in 2019 was silly. OTOH, if you set it 1,000 years out, well, society probably differs more from today than today differs from 1000 CE.Report