BookRix

Orange, NJ

I for one don't mourn the decline of the Oscars, which when you come right
down to it, are nothing more than industry awards of the sort many industries
award but few of us ever hear about. The only thing that makes the Oscars more
interesting than say, the advertising industry's Clio awards, is that movie
stars look better in fancy clothes than the typical ad exec. On the other
hand, more of us will actually have seen the ad campaigns! Enough of the
preening multimillionaires patting each other on the back. Oscars should be
granting recognition to the quiet behind-the-scenes folks (which they do, such
as makeup, costume, lighting and other technical awards), and doing it quietly
in a ballroom somewhere like other industries do.

Aside from which, the other way the Oscars have shot themselves in the foot is
with the nominations, and sometimes awards, for performers whose best work the
Academy ignored for years, and finally said hey, it's his time, we should give
him one already. Then they award it for the actor's last movie, a mediocre
effort but nothing better is forthcoming at this point. (Grammys make this
mistake as well). Often the work recognized really isn't that stellar, but
it's his or her time, or we need a diversity candidate to get an award. It
degrades the meaning of the awards.

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