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Michael Cieply: Dumb Snubs, Diversity Watch, Political Strife–A Practically Perfect Oscar Season


It’s a fact of life, people love the Oscars most when the film Academy or its members are doing something dumb. Slapping a host. Naming the wrong winner. Singing about bare breasts. That sort of th…

Will Lily Gladstone be the first Native American to win a competitive Oscar (or second, if you are among those still counting Buffy Sainte-Marie) for her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon? Now we need a juicy campaign scandal—like somebody trash-talking somebody else in apparent violation of the rules, leading to a sternly written letter and a board promise to review practices and procedures next time, for sure. And we could use at least one more pre-Oscar outrage by Master of Ceremonies Jimmy Kimmel, who set the blood stirring ten days ago with an especially vibrant anti-Trump rant on his late night show.

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