Are the Oscars Rigged?

By Damien Hoffman

February 03 2010 Email

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I love movies. I especially love great movies. Many times, awards such as Golden Globes or Oscars can help filter out which movies I should push to the top of my Netflix queue. But is the award system completely rigged?

If you read Wall St. Cheat Sheet, you know how often we cite lobbying as a major strategy on Wall Street and in Washington. However, I believe distinctions like the Oscars are generally accepted as merit-based (even when your favorite film doesn’t get tagged with a bald golden guy).

Unfortunately, as movie companies collect an important share of revenue from post-theater distribution, awards play an equally important role in driving sales — both in initial and future demand from award sections at retailers and renters.

For example, after Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of The Weinstein Co., received an Oscar nomination for Inglorious Bastards he said, “We’ll sell another million or two million DVD units” because of the nominations.

That’s real money. Surely enough money to offer some legal payola (trips, dinners, iPhones, etc.) to the Academy members. There was even a payola scandal over Scent of a Woman. (I am sure there are more, but this one was at my finger tips.)

In general, I have found many past Oscar winners to be worthy of 90+ minutes of my lifespan. However, I wonder whether I should ignore movie awards as I do The Grammys (which everyone who has worked in the record business — like me — knows are rigged) and TV commercials.

Do you ignore movie awards when crafting your must-see list? If so, why? The Cheat Sheet wants to know …

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joe hoe so fat

What a freakin joke.

Year after year any crap film with a Jewish element, hollocuast, anti-semitism, pro war against the enemies of Israel wins something.

Have'nt you yanks woken up to the fact who owns and runs Hollywood. That it is being used to programme your minds even if it is done ever so subtly.

The mere fact that people want to see anti war and anti exploitation films like Avatar
rather than a pro war film like the Hurt locker which actually wins speaks volume for the academies real agenda.

Time you got back in control of your film industry.
nightwisp1956

Stop reading things into situations where none exist. Even the most innocent occurances in life seem to generate conspiracy theories from certain people. Jes, jews, jews. When is this goddamn scapegoating going to stop? And, no, I am not a jew---I'm a Church of Christer.
John

why didnt Inglorious Basterds win then you anti-semitic asshole

that movie was the ultimate "jewish" victory movie
DamienHoffman

So, Haliburton and the neocons control the Film Academy?
Thad

Haliburton... You're joking, yes?

Google "Operation Mockingbird" then look up the McClatchy news series on the practical Wall St. looting of the globe (not just the U.S.) where at least $23 TRILLION is unaccounted for according to Bloomberg News where the "Federal Reserve" was never federal and has zero reserves. If you believe this is all random and unconnected , and that tinsel town is not part of an ultra-corrupt establishment culture then I've got a bridge to sell you. (cheap)
DamienHoffman

If you read this site, then you know we talk constantly about the Fed's role in the global economy. You also know we called out all the people and companies from the greatest heist in history.

But insofar as Hurt Locker winning because it's a zionist propaganda piece ... uh, I don't think so. Many conspiracies have truth to them. But it's ignorant to suggest Wall Street's scam connected to Disneyland. Wall Street's scam connected to your local mortgage brokers who fleeced their neighbors who were either too greedy to turn down house flipping or too something to accept the reality that you can't borrow more than you can afford to pay back. There is not just one villain in our real life story ... there are many. It took a village to bring us down. Just watch an episode of Flip That House or recall your local Best Buy in 2005-06.
nightwisp1956

Conspiracy theories about the Oscars, too? Oh, good Lord! >rolls eyes<
Kirill Galetski

"I'm not out to win prizes - that's for dogs and horses." -Werner Herzog
Hank

The pro Israeli forces in Hollywood have totally infected the Academy awards, and have rendered them moot. They have become just more propaganda in a never ending river of pro war, pro Israeli propaganda.
In so many ways Avatar was the most amazing thing I have ever seen on the screen, and judging by the box office numbers, I am not alone. For it to have been so completely snubbed is a crime to film making, and a testament to ignorance. The Academy is now in the same league with 'Operation Repo' .
DamienHoffman

I agree that Avatar got snubbed, big time.
Big M

Are the Oscars rigged? Do Catholic priests molest young boys?

Good freaking God, people who watch this stuff should be pinned to the ground and sterilized with a soldering iron. Well, maybe, maybe not, but . . . .

I would certainly expect to see them queuing outside in line for a Star Wars convention, and voting in federal elections.
Jay

The oscars are nothing but a long commercial anyways.

Look we all understand that people who watch the super bowl just to see the commercials are basically celebrating their own mental slavery and brainwashing. We should think of people who talk about the oscars as a significant event in the exact same way.

If you really think watching someone hock their product is either real news or real entertainment, you are too brainwashed to have an opinion that matters. The oscars are nothing but self-promotion.
DamienHoffman

True. The product placement is nauseating.