Awards are cool. I have nothing against awards. If a piece of music or a movie does enough to broach aesthetic or narrative fields in a manner deemed worthy of recognition by informed and relevant parties, then I wholeheartedly believe those works ought to be recognized. If awards are the way we choose to recognize them, then awards are cool with me. I have nothing against awards.
Awards shows are garbage, though.
In particular the Oscars are kind of garbage. Mostly because they’re entirely useless and needless. The awards get given out anyway, and all they really need to do is publish a list of the films that won in each category, along with those nominated. To think that we, collectively, would sit through an hour and a half of preamble, then close to two hours of a ceremony which in reality is not much more than a bunch of rich people sitting in a room clapping for themselves, is ludicrous.
Moreover, there are people literally being persecuted for their beliefs right now. So much so that it’s entirely disingenuous to me to think that anyone could think it even remotely acceptable to watch people we’ll never meet wearing clothes that cost more money than we make in three months, all clapping for each other.
The whole thing is a joke. And a bad one at that.
