Film still has (some) uses…

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6 of of the 9 best picture nominations at this years Oscars were shot on Kodak Film ( Argo, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Django Unchained, Les Miserables, Lincoln and Silver Linings Playbook) Not sure if the others were shot digitally or used some other brand of film (assuming someone else still makes 35mm movie film!).

In fact Kodak say:

…no best picture winner in the Academy Award’s 84-year history has been made without film…

That’s an intersting choice of words though. There’s a difference between the film being shot on film and a film not “being made without film”. I guess they are saying that so far no purely digital film has won the Oscar. It’s also the case that distributors are no longer making 35mm prints of film for projection, so even if a move was shot on film, what you see in the cinema is now a digitally projected version of it.

via Kodak Celebrates the Oscars®.