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[Burnsite]

I didn't see the show or the movies; it has been a busy year workwise for me.

I have a brother who votes for the Screen Actors Guild and he says that is a clean award: actors evaluating directors and other actors. The Oscars are all about money. Doesn't mean they aren't fun, and the movies that win are good movies. But the best? I don't think that's ever been true, except by accident.

Money doesn't understand art. It just doesn't. The Oscars are commercial and it's always been that way. The studios that made the films used to own hundreds of movie theatres. And they still are linked to commercial success.

But they have it both ways: the big commercial successes often fail at the Oscars, while a "high minded" film that did OK wins the nod. It doesn't mean either was better or worse.

I'm not commenting on this year--I didn't see any of the films. I stopped watching the Oscars when Kubrick's 2001, my favorite film of all time, was snubbed. I think it got a special effects Oscar and that was it. It was not only the best film of that year, the SXs changed movies forever. Typically for the Oscars, they gave him awards later, when he was no longer doing his best work.