Tag: Oscars

The Hollywood establishment used to be dominated by old white men, but that’s changing fast.

Stars are increasingly using Hollywood awards podiums as sites of protest, but few of them are men, and even fewer are white men.

If it was up to the media, probably forever.

“It’s talking about things that I’ve always wanted to talk about.”

Daniel Miller goes behind the scenes to report on the famed red carpet that graces the entrance to the Oscars. What you learn about the care, installation, and true color of this 50,000 square foot rug may just surprise you.

It doesn’t really seem to make much difference how the voting is done. The quality of the work is still only recognized in the context of success. A superb job in a flop picture would get you nothing, a routine job in a winner will be voted in. It is against this background of success-worship that the voting is done, with the incidental music supplied by a stream of advertising in the trade papers (which even intelligent people read in Hollywood) designed to put all other pictures than those advertised out of your head at balloting time.