I had made a decision way before Titanic that I wasn’t going to serve two masters: I was going to put my visual cinema first.
So when they see a film that’s too dependent on visual effects, they say, oh, that’s not an acting movie.
In 2016, the ratings hit an eight-year low, causing many to wonder how the Academy could possibly fix their problem.
According to Oscar-winning director James Cameron, this is a byproduct of an in-house bias the Academy has against big studio tentpoles. “There’s definitely a bias.