The Academy awards went the Filmfare way when they made a rather eyebrow-raising announcement and introduced a new category called, 'Most Popular Films'. After they made the announcement on Wednesday, little did they expect that they would be critiqued by the Twitterati. Of course, most of the flak directed at the Academy Awards committee had more to say about how it's plain lazy and ham-fisted.

It has been a known fact that the Academy Awards don't consider box office hits as critically aesthetic and artful. The past is a good example of how they snubbed some of the best films from entering the Best Film category that includes WonderWoman (in the recent past) and The Dark Knight.

There was an outrage for not nominating WonderWoman as Best Film considering it was the first female-centric film that broke records and won hearts! Christopher Nolan's iteration of Batman, The Dark Knight received 8 nominations in various categories except Best Film, whereas it is a globally recognized view that the film deserved to be in the Best Film category.

Twitterati is now wondering whether this move has been finalized so as to involve as many box office successes who are also plot-driven. Black Panther is the only film that comes to everyone's mind at the moment. While some have taken straight-up digs at the committee's "lazy work", many are calling it a move to give the Oscars to Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong'o, Michael B Jordan starrer Black Panther.

Check out the tweets below:

We wonder how many people accept the Academy Awards' new category Most Popular. Well, if it is anything like the awards that happen in Bollywood, the credibility of the Academy Awards is hanging by a gossamer rope!

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