Since race for the movie awards is getting heated up, we decided to bring you most prestigious movie awards around the world. Most movie awards have categories that cover the most important elements of making the movie. Although the categories can vary from one award to another, the main few are usually always there: Best Movie, Best Director, Best Actor/Actress, and Best Supporting Actor/Actress.
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All movie awards usually fit in one of the four categories: Critics’ Awards, Festival Awards, Industry Awards and Audience Awards. Critics’ Awards are voted by the movie critics, who usually vote annually while Audience Awards are voted by the audience. When it comes to Industry Awards, the winners are voted by the people who work in some branch of the movies. Festival Awards are being given to the best movies that are shown in a particular festival.
But awards are not the only thing that measures a true success of a movie. Ticket sale is also one way to see how the audience reacts, but also merchandise sale. So, be sure to check our article on 11 movies that sold the most merchandise to see which one has won the most audience’s hearts.
With a plethora of movie awards around the world – how should we decide which are the most prestigious? We’ve figured out that prestigious should have something to do with the long tradition, so we’ve deiced to take into account how long those awards exists. But, since this is not the list of the oldest movie awards, we also consulted other articles about most prestigious awards. We gave each movie award points from 1 to 10, based on their place on those other lists and extra points depending on how old they are, creating our ultimate list. Let’s take a look, shall we?
