Opinion poll on criticisms and awards

How influenced are you by film criticisms and awards?

The results of our opinion poll

We gave a series of ten questions to people of various ages (from 20 to 50), to try and evaluate the
extent to which people are influenced by awards and criticisms.

The results show that most people do not read film criticisms and that those who do read them do not take
them into account in their final decision about seeing a film or not.

Everybody asks for the opinion of their friends or relatives who have already seen the film.

Only a minority of people watches the actual ceremonies of film festivals or films competitions, but most
of them inquire about the results afterwards.

All the people to whom the opinion poll was submitted consider that an award is not a token of quality.

This opinion poll shows the general tendency of paying little heed to the film festivals or competitions
which are less mediatized, even if they are considered as major events within the cinema industry (Goya,
Berlinale, Mostra of Venice…).