And the Oscar goes to....??!

The 90^th Oscars ceremony is behind us. The race for the most desired statuette in the movie world - The Academy Awards, widly known as the Oscars, has already finished, leaving, among the participants, both the feeling of proud and disapointment. However, despite the prestigious nature of the Oscars, surprisingly a lot of scandals and critics is joint with this event, comming even from the Hollywood society. Its history remembers sadly the ostentatious refusing the award by the nominee: Marlon Brando or George C. Scott who described the Oscars ceremony as 'a meat parade'. So what is really hidden behind the flashlight of the Oscars splendour?

Commercialism

As one of the criterion of being nominated to the Academy Awards is the popularity of the movie, during 'the Oscar season', there are milion of dollars spent by the movie studios for the marketing campaigne to artificialy promote thier movies. So, here is the rub! The Oscars jury, doesn't verify the facts but it focus mainly on the numbers rather than the quality of the movie. So, as always, everything is about getting 'likes' :)

Corruption (among the jury)

This shameful fact makes the Oscars nominations increasingly unreliable in the favour of Golden Globe Award (another prestigious american movie award). In the case of Golden Globe, the jury is composed of 93 independent foreign journalists, acknowledged by Hollywood, who represents the world press rather from the European point. This contrasts hugely with 5500 regular members of the Academy Awards Jury who promotes rather the mass (american) preferences.

Racism

Despite the apparent belief in the relative tolerance and lack of racial divisions, the U.S. society still is struggling with this embarassing problem. It touches even the Oscars. The scandal went out into the world in 2016 when during the 88^th ceremony, called 'the white Oscars', non of the black actor and actress was awarded. The accusations of favorising the white forced the members of the Oscars jury to make significant changes in its strategy.

So, is only the jury guilty of the Oscars bad reputation? Of course not. It would be too simple. It's just a drop in the sea of the whole problem...ok, maybe not one but 5500 'drops' :) However this simple exemple shows how the appearances of the magnificence can be deceptive. Well, quoting an old proverb: 'All that glitters is not GOLD'.