"That was poop!" pretty much sums up my own feelings on the subject.;)
Yeah, the Oscars are, in the main, political--not political so much in terms of current presidency or whatever, but political in terms of who votes and why. That's why you so often get at least one instance of the You're Old And You're Gonna Die award (the Don Ameche in Cocoon special) per session, occasionally known as the Okay We Get It, You're Good, Shut Up Already award. I think that Gary Oldman won under the latter proviso. That's also why we got that fairly amazing article where a bunch of older Academy members admitted to just not having watched Get Out, because they decided it simply wasn't "an Oscar film."
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Yeah, the Oscars are, in the main, political--not political so much in terms of current presidency or whatever, but political in terms of who votes and why. That's why you so often get at least one instance of the You're Old And You're Gonna Die award (the Don Ameche in Cocoon special) per session, occasionally known as the Okay We Get It, You're Good, Shut Up Already award. I think that Gary Oldman won under the latter proviso. That's also why we got that fairly amazing article where a bunch of older Academy members admitted to just not having watched Get Out, because they decided it simply wasn't "an Oscar film."