Funny, that most of you here in the forum comment the absence of RED on the Oscar nominees by technical picture details (pro and cons).
May I give a hint to a possible reason not yet mentioned here:
The RED Epic is a quite noisy camera (soundwise) and degrades the quality of actors dialogue to a huge degree. If I was a producer and I would pay millions of dollars to get the best actors in the world to play for my movie, I would not work with a camera, which makes half of their work (dialogue) go directly into the trash bin!
Even ten years after their first ONE camera, RED hasn´t m