Why the Oscars suck
By Lena Zhu | Published by March 29, 2019
The Oscars. The Golden Globes. The American Music Awards.
All of these events are well known in the industry and are easily the most viewed and watched programs on television. The Oscars, specifically, in 2017, had 32.9 million people viewers, 2016 with 34.4 million, and 2019, the most recent, with 29.9 million views according to Time magazine.
Although that doesn’t mean that everyone watches it. Everyone has a different perspective when it comes to who should win the best picture. Is it going to be A Star is Born, Green Book, BlacKkKlansmann, etc? Many of these movies have the ability to win multiple gold statues, but what really is the point of The Oscars? Isn’t the Oscars just a way for the acting community or film community to pat itself on the back? To show other people that, Wow! They made so many great movies this year!
Please, I don’t need anyone telling me what movies are good and what movies are bad. I can figure that out all on my own. I’m a big girl.
Also, just because a movie wins an Oscar does not mean that it is the absolute best movie out there of that year. Everyone has different opinions and different tastes, so I don’t understand how someone can judge that.
And speaking of judging, who judges the Oscars, anyway? Wouldn’t it make much more sense if the viewers/people judged it? No one really knows what’s going on behind the scenes.
But either way, that golden man who is in the middle of hugging himself is what people want. The golden statue is a mark of success for many actors and directors or to those who win it. However, if an actor does not have the Gold Hugging Man, this does not mean that the actor or actress is not good.
Take Leonardo DiCaprio for example. He’s had so many critically acclaimed movies and timeless classics. He’s most notably known for Titanic, where he plays Rose’s love interest.
Titanic has received a 89 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and an eight out of 10 on imdb. It has also won many awards from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) among many others. How can one say that this isn’t a good movie?
Despite all of this, DiCaprio did not go home with any Oscars that night. However, this does not mean that he is not a good actor or that he doesn’t deserve one. The Leonardo DiCaprio exception just shows that the Oscars, while a good approval stamp for movies, does not mean anything.