Respawn Becomes The First Ever Game Studio To Win An Oscar Award

Its a shame that now the Oscars have so little value anymore because of agendas and politics. You cant tell what is earned and what is given to satisfy some quota.

The game was a disappointment, bought a RIft S when the game was announced but after a few missions I stopped playing and sold my Rift S. Especially after Half Life Alyx.

I don't care about the Oscars, but decided to watch this out of curiosity. This was so well done. I bawled my eyes out.

However it feels weird to me that this is paired with a video game that in a way glorifies the violence of WWII. Seeing her personality in the documentary, and how she is against morbid tourism, I don't think she'd be happy or impressed

@KonstantTrouble While I agree, this instance I think it was very warranted. I recommend watching the mini-doc, its very good.

@Jmjfrank "glorifies the violence of WWII" I think is a bit of an overstatement. It's not like the game encourages you to torture Jewish prisoners. WWII videogames often have a lot of teachable moments and real history mixed in to the game. It's still a game or no one would play it, but I do think there is stuff that can be learned if it is written well and can be a positive impact on many people in a world where history isn't very prioritized by society.

CONGRATULATIONS

Who cares about the oscars..

I think the take away here is that a video game has been recognized and awarded as a form of entertainment and art at some would say is one of the the highest levels.

You can love or hate the Oscars, but it to me is the point that not only are we bigger then the movie industry financially, we can go head to head with them to when it comes to story. We all knew that, now others will realize that to.

I kind of want to buy the game for this. The game itself isn't very good from what I heard and 200GB is a big asking price, but the documentary looks great.

Respawn beat the studio behind "Schindler's List" to it. 😂

@Arcnail A video game didn't win an Oscar. The documentary film that was made to accompany a video game did. It was still a movie made by a video game company.

It would be more like FFXV Kingsglaive winning an Oscar. Except it's actually good.

@KonstantTrouble No offense, but that agenda was already always there in the first place, for all the previous decades that the Academy Awards existed. Problem is that it was the reverse agenda of the one we're now seeing, and it wasn't a correct depiction of actual society, much less one of diversity, and that is being addressed now.

They now need to over-extend their efforts, to ultimately achieve a nice, sensible middle ground. I also don't like pity parties and awards for the sake of choosing an actor or a movie that would otherwise possibly not have been chosen, but in general, the movies that were selected, were all worthy candidates, so I've no problem with it.

And besides: that's also what it should be about, the movies. Not who makes them or who stars in them, no matter which color or orientation. A good movie is a good movie regardless, and a lot of them being overlooked/omitted from previous editions of the awards can at the VERY least be called old-fashioned/archaic, but it's actually WAY more depressing than that...

Oh, and just in case you're thinking of bringing that up: I'm white as a lily...