The Oscars should create a category called 'Best Blockbuster'

Alright reasons why the Oscars should have a 'Best Blockbuster' category:1) A 'Best Blockbuster' category would lure in a bigger audience for the awards show. The Oscars have consistently been trying to lure in a bigger audience over the past few ceremonies, as evidenced by the hosts they have chosen to host the Oscars themselves. The last five hosts of the Oscars have been Seth MacFarlane, James Franco, Ellen Degeneres, Neil Patrick Harris, and Billy Crystal, who only ended up with the job because Megan Fox, the person who the Academy wanted to host the show, passed on the opportunity. That's one gay male (NPH), one gay female (Ellen), one guy who regularly tries to push the envelope in comedy (MacFarlane), and one man who actually wished he WERE gay (Franco) http://www.huffingtonpost.com...In addition to more diverse hosts, the Oscars are also trying to lure in more viewers by expanding the number of nominees that can contend for Best Picture. in 2009, the Oscars decided to expand the max list of Best Picture nominees from 5 up to 10 in an attempt to "invite more commercially successful titles to the party, and perhaps increasing viewership of the televised ceremony"http://www.cinemablend.com...You can even see in the link that the reason that pushed the Oscars to change the rules was literally because critically acclaimed blockbusters like The Dark Knight and WALL-E were left off ballot, triggering widespread outrage. It's very clear that the Oscars have been trying to reach out to a larger audience to tune in to the awards show when it comes around once a year, and adding a 'Best Blockbuster' category would substantially increase interest in the Oscars since more people have seen blockbusters than the films that usually get nominated for Best Picture, which is actually my next argument. 2) A majority people don't watch the films that end up nominated for Best Picture. In 2015 when the most recent Oscar ceremony took place, a poll revealed that 66% of people didn't see a SINGLE ONE of the films nominated for Best Picture, with American Sniper being the film that people saw the most, at just 18%https://aytm.com...Furthermore, even people within the Academy itself haven't seen all the movies nominated for Best Picture!http://www.cinemablend.com...The Oscars quite simply has an appeal problem, where the films that are supposedly the 'Best Picture of the year' don't even gain enough interest from people to go out and actually see the movies. Adding a 'Best Blockbuster' category would not only would bring in more viewers for the Oscars themselves, but they would also be movies that people have actually seen, which is a huge problem that the 'Best Picture' category has struggled with for years now. 3) The Oscars have become anti-blockbuster in 'Best Picture' nominationsList of huge blockbusters that were watched by millions, were critically acclaimed, yet weren't even NOMINATED for Best Picture:- Every Hunger Games movie- Every Iron Man movie- Every Marvel movie (Iron Man, Avengers, etc)- Every Batman movie of the Christopher Nolan trilogy- Every Hobbit movie - Every Toy Story movie- Frozen, Tangled, How to Train Your Dragon, Despicable MeThe Oscars have routinely shut out wildly successful movies out of even being NOMINATED for Best Picture. And whats worse, even those blockbusters that DO get nominated as Best Picture, such as Gravity or Avatar, lose anyways to other movies that made a fraction of what those blockbusters made, even though they were not even more critically acclaimed. Making a 'Best Blockbuster' category would finally offer some reward and top-tier recognition to movies that are blockbusters that historically usually walk away from the Oscars completely empty-handed. 4) This has sort of happened before. In the past, Animated movies, like blockbusters, didnt have their own category in the Oscars either, and they had to compete with all the other movies for Best Picture themselves to get any recognition. But in 2001 though, animated movies were granted their own category, 'Best Animated Feature', that offered animated movies the opportunity to win some Oscar glory for themselves without having to fight through all the other films to get it. Films like Big Hero 6, Tangled, Brave, Frozen and Toy Story 3 now were able to rightfully secure some recognition for their achievements in film, without being drowned in the usual lackluster competition for Best Picture. This same thing can be done for Blockbuster films, where they could get their own rightful recognition for their quality rather then be shut out time and time again. 5) A best blockbuster would drive studios to make better blockbuster films. Movie studios have recently devoted more and more effort and resources into making blockbuster films, simply because the technology and the amount of money that can be made off of them has developed so much that one killer blockbuster could provide enough financing for a dozen smaller films. This increased devotion to making blockbuster films though has caused some studios to make blockbusters that critically speaking, are pretty sh*tty....The Transformers franchise, the Fast+Furious franchise, and the Twilight franchise for examples are all blockbuster type franchises that while they have made millions, are actually pretty sh*tty, and have only ever earned mixed reviews from movie critics. With money currently being the only thing to gain for blockbusters right now, there is very little incentive for studios to make critically acclaimed blockbusters apart from the desires of the studios themselves. A 'Best Blockbuster' category though would be the ULTIMATE bragging rights for a blockbuster film to hold over other blockbuster films, which would provide a tremendous incentive for movie studios to release blockbuster films that are made to be more critically acclaimed rather then just make the most amount of money possible. So to summarize why they Oscars should have a 'Best Blockbuster' category:1 - Lure in more of an audience for the Oscars themselves2 - Many people dont watch a majority of the movies that get nominated for Oscars3 - Blockbusters usually get shut out of the Oscars, this will give them justice4 - This was an issue with animated films and when they got their own category the problem was fixed5 - Incentivizes studios to make better blockbuster films