Announcing Jonathan Lack’s “Dream Academy Awards!” – Nominations Coming Next Week!
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The Academy Awards are really, really frustrating. I could write a whole essay about why they are silly and not worth putting any stock into – remember, even in the best of times, they aren’t definitive, just the opinions of one group of people – but in short, I’ve been growing increasingly aware over the past few years that, more often than not, the Oscars are wrong about pretty much everything. As with most award shows, the films that campaign the hardest and have the most “prestige” are the ones that win, whether or not they are actually worthy of recognition. Sometimes the system works and “The Return of the King” wins 11 Oscars. That was a good year. Typically, though, mediocre-at-best fare like “The King’s Speech” walks away with Best Picture, and it takes me months to rebuild any of my faith in Hollywood. Most years, I pick one or two winners I desperately want to see get a statue (Natalie Portman last year), and if they get at least
Announcing Jonathan Lack’s “Dream Academy Awards!” – Nominations Coming Next Week!
Announcing Jonathan Lack’s “Dream Academy…
Announcing Jonathan Lack’s “Dream Academy Awards!” – Nominations Coming Next Week!
The Academy Awards are really, really frustrating. I could write a whole essay about why they are silly and not worth putting any stock into – remember, even in the best of times, they aren’t definitive, just the opinions of one group of people – but in short, I’ve been growing increasingly aware over the past few years that, more often than not, the Oscars are wrong about pretty much everything. As with most award shows, the films that campaign the hardest and have the most “prestige” are the ones that win, whether or not they are actually worthy of recognition. Sometimes the system works and “The Return of the King” wins 11 Oscars. That was a good year. Typically, though, mediocre-at-best fare like “The King’s Speech” walks away with Best Picture, and it takes me months to rebuild any of my faith in Hollywood. Most years, I pick one or two winners I desperately want to see get a statue (Natalie Portman last year), and if they get at least