Welp, here we have another Oscar season finally over. Did ya catch it? Me neither. The glamor and glitz of it all is nothing more than superficial, overindulged crybabies who pat each other on the back for pretending to care. But here's a highlight that I think is more of a jab at Hollywood and it's pretentious tendencies than people are willing to admit; the host, Ellen Degeneres, said it was a night where "anything can happen, so many possibilities. " The punchline immediately followed with; "Possibility number one: 12 Years a Slave wins best picture. Possibility number two: You’re all racists." Whoa. You mean to tell me that this movie wasn't favorited by whoever decides winners because it focused on Black History?! Don't get me wrong, I haven't seen the film yet but will, if only so I can update my thoughts on this.
However, I am aware that the Oscar committee has a love of films that focus on sociologically deemed "marginalized groups" or films that they can make iconic so as to appease their white, anglo-saxon, protestant guilt, yes I referenced WASP, and though I would like to add undeservingly wealthy and self righteous, I fear I would drag on. We've seen this in the glorification of Brokeback Mountain and Slumdog Milliomaire, neither of which I have seen to judge quality, but I can only guess that there was this "white, heterosexual guilt" attached. Let's be real, there won't be any movies about little white children from Northern Ireland who were raped and beaten by nuns and priests being a favourite to win an Oscar because the only guilt they could use would be against an organization that has made itself infallible from day 1, and simply twists the evidence, perhaps cherry picks would be a better term, into suiting its own conclusions. No cultural guilt? No Oscar.
