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The Academy Awards ceremony is coming up later this month, but other than the fashion police who will be working an overtime detail, does anyone really take the Oscars seriously anymore?
For one thing, as is usually the case, hardly anyone went to see the films nominated for Best Picture. One could also argue that in general the content--as well as the box office--is also anemic. And many of today's actors seem to lack a commanding presence on the screen.
At
PJMedia, author/screenwriter Andrew Klavan provides some perspective about how the Oscars are "sinking into irrelevance."
It’s also true that Hollywood’s left-wing and feminist agendas alienate the industry from the mainstream..But low-watt stars, dishonest leftism, and hectoring feminism may be the
symptoms of the art form’s decay rather than the causes. Technology and
time may have killed the business and leftists and feminists may be the
maggots feeding on its corpse — all that remains after the best writers
and actors have headed for television, and the brilliant visual guys go
into video gaming and apps.
In an unrelated article on
National Review Online, historian Victor Davis Hanson notes that Hollywood movers-and-shakers are among the biggest supporters of what he calls "Obamaism," despite the fact that "Hollywood predicates much of its production on the basis of non-union locations."
While dwindling, the Oscars still get decent TV ratings, but the trend is not their friend. Will you be watching this year?
