Perspective: Awards season this year is already a nothingburger. And that’s okay.
dramatically curtailed a celebration that had become known as a boozy, boisterous, unbuttoned alternative to the more staid and snooty Oscars. This year, no live Globes party was thrown, no champagne flowed, no delicious gaffes ensued; there wasn’t even a proper show to stream. Winners were announced over social media, to largely indifferent audiences and wary artists.
Oddly enough, the HFPA’s acknowledgment of its waning relevance resulted in the Globes looking like what the Oscars used to be, and might benefit from becoming again, at least for the time being.In 1929, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held the first Academy Awards, the honors were bestowed at a private dinner, the ceremony itself taking only 15 minutes . The Oscars were broadcast over radio a year later, then televised in the 1950s.
who began making and studying and talking about them — the annual show became must-see TV, a pageant of glitz and self-congratulation, but also a larger cultural conversation that everyone could share, understand and argue about.Virtually since their inception, the Oscars have been a marketing vehicle for the movie industry, especially as a way for studios to wrap themselves in the mantle of art, political seriousness and moral uplift.
Of course, the whole point of the Academy Awards — and the season leading up to them — was to turn movies no one had seen into box office juggernauts: witness such Oscar-made hits as “Slumdog Millionaire,” “The King’s Speech” and “The Imitation Game.” This year, “the little movies that could” include the Netflix movies
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