I counted the cuts in 8,770 films from the last century to find out how many shots a movie has now, and how fast we are cutting.

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[–] [S] 7 points 2 days ago (1 child)

Interesting that faster cuts don’t impress the Academy

Before we go, one more fun fact - Oscar voters haven’t sped up with the rest of cinema. In the 1990s, the median Best Picture nominee cut at 9.7 shots a minute, compared with 12.0 for all films. In the 2020s so far, the Best Picture nominees in my data cut at 9.4 against 15.1 for everything else.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 days ago

    So like action-martial-arts movies I would say are universally better when they have fewer cuts because that means they're leveraging the abilities of the actors. Classic example is the ~4 minute single cut from The Protector.

    That genre rarely wins Oscars. But I think we can still draw the conclusion that cut frequency's effect on film enjoyment depends on genre.

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