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March 10, 2003 — David Kehr from The New York Times has a great editorial on how the Oscars are standing rigid in the face of Digital Technology.

We are now in the midst of a transformation of the medium every bit as profound as the shift from silence to sound. As digital technologies proliferate  and with them, the ability to revise, retouch or replace every element that appears before the camera or is captured by the microphone  movies are becoming less a recording medium than a sort of sketchbook or sandbox, a neutral space outside of reality where filmmakers can construct their fantasies.

Rather than face up to this fundamental shift in aesthetics, the academy has insisted on clouding the digital issue. Last year, a new award for best animated film was introduced. It was promptly won by "Shrek," a cartoon feature created not on the drawing board but on the computer monitor, by artist-technicians manipulating a variety of complex image-generating programs.

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