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Boiling Point: Not a great year for climate change at the Oscars
« on: February 21, 2025, 11:07:43 am »
Boiling Point: Not a great year for climate change at the Oscars
 
By Sammy Roth
Climate Columnist
Feb. 20, 2025 6 AM PT
 
And the Oscar for best climate change film of 2024 goes to ...

“The Wild Robot,” a beautiful animated movie that takes place in a world irrevocably altered by rising seas.

Not that there was much competition.

For the second year running, nonprofit consulting firm Good Energy applied its Climate Reality Check to the actual Oscar-nominated films. Intended as a climate version of the Bechdel test, which measures representation of women, the Climate Reality Check tests whether a movie and its characters acknowledge global warming.

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Compared to last year, the results weren’t great.

Of last year’s 13 Oscar-nominated films that met Good Energy’s criteria (feature-length movies set in present-day or near-future Earth) three passed the test. This year, there were 10 eligible films. Only “The Wild Robot” passed.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2025-02-20/boiling-point-not-a-great-year-for-climate-change-at-the-oscars-boiling-point
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Re: Boiling Point: Not a great year for climate change at the Oscars
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2025, 11:08:24 am »
Time to start a Defund Holloweird movement! :amen:
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Re: Boiling Point: Not a great year for climate change at the Oscars
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2025, 12:06:39 pm »
The best evironmental dystopia film was Soylent Green.

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