The Oscars (and other awards)

I'm still leading more towards Spotlight right now.

I like how the show that needed to be dragged into hiring a black woman a year ago suddenly thinks it can be smug about such things...

I know Dracula has spoken in length about this in the past, but it's worth repeating this year.

variety.com/2016/film/in-contention/oscars-pga-the-big-short-best-picture-frontrunner-1201687331/

www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/oscar-voter-diversity-push-is-858695

I do agree with this person that the push to be more 'racially inclusive' is quite ageist.  The faces of the Academy are so desperate to shed the 'old white male' image that they come out with these absurd new guidelines in the hopes that it will change...what?  There are thousands of Academy members and now some of them aren't going to be eligible anymore?  What for?  That doesn't automatically mean that the voting is going to become more diverse.  This is yet again another nonsensical, knee-jerk reaction from people who panicked when The Internets called them 'racist.'  Yeah there are puss cakes like Matt Damon who say 'ohh it's shameful' and all that (funny you bring this up now Matt and not previously, I wonder if that has to do with your embarrassing Project Greenlight snafu) but they're only trying to make themselves look good.  If these millionaire actors and filmmakers like Damon or Jada Pinkett-Smith are so concerned why don't they themselves produce more films with black people (FYI coming from Los Angeles, the definition of diversity over here is black and/or gay, that's all)?  That's right, they won't, they'll just pat themselves on the back while accusing an organization of being too old and white.  

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John Williams?

1971 - Fiddler on the Roof
1975 - Jaws
1977 - Star Wars
1982 - E.T.
1993 - Schindler's List

You were probably thinking of Ennio Morricone. He has zero Oscars - except for his Lifetime award in 2007. He's the one who's gonna win cause the Oscars "owe him one."

Every year we're increasingly seeing a gap in the "critics awards" which include The Golden Globes and the various regional awards and the industry awards like the guilds and the Oscars.  The movies that win in both groups are the ones that are essentially compromise choices that everyone can agree on but increasingly those compromise choices have been different.  We have these years where the critics groups go for movies like The Social Network and Boyhood but then the industry awards see things differently and give their awards to The Kings Speech and Birdman.  This year Spotlight was the critics compromise choice, possibly because they are all journalists of sorts and they like seeing their profession get flattered and they pick up on how "authentic" it is, but the industry seems to be going for The Big Short, possibly because they all have large stock portfolios.  

Hey Look Mad Max actually won something!