Mar 15, 2026 09:14 PM
https://www.sashastone.com/p/how-the-osc...ryone-hate
EXCERPTS (Sasha Stone): In 1978, Paddy Chayefsky took to the stage at the Oscars and condemned the use of the ceremony as a political platform. What made him so mad? Vanessa Redgrave...
[...] 48 million people watched that episode. This year, the Oscars will be lucky to get 20 million. What might help is that a popular movie is in play: Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, which made waves for breaking the record for nominations (16) and for having two of the stars, Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, called the N-Word at the BAFTAs by a poor man who suffered from Tourette's Syndrome.
No writer today could ever come up with satire that good. The very people who try their hardest not to offend end up offending, and yet, it’s no one’s fault. Either way, it put Sinners in the spotlight...
Nothing gets better clicks and views than hating on the Oscars. It’s an annual ritual by now, as the wealthy and privileged parade about in their finery, an entire ecosystem is dedicated to dunking on them. It seems to be almost a sadistic pleasure by now. The more embarrassing the Oscars are, the better to dig in with a knife and fork.
Most people who watch on Sunday night will be hate-watching. Either because they can’t stand the movies on offer, or they can’t stand the celebrities who have become too political of late to tolerate. It’s a thousand Vanessa Redgraves and no Paddy Chayefskys.
It shouldn’t be a surprise that the ratings began to dip after 2016 [...] one of Hollywood’s biggest problems of late: they’re married to the Democratic Party.
And that’s all before they went woke and went broke. The Oscars, like every award show, were hit hard and ended up implementing a DEI mandate in 2024, which is why all movies and television shows look like THAT, and why so many are so unwatchable. They have lost their connection to real life, so how can they reflect it back to us?
[...] The predicted winner this year is a real doozy. One Battle After Another, which aims to satirize the Left and the Right, but comes away making the point that the revolutionaries aren’t skilled enough to take on the fascists and the Gestapo running this country.
If One Battle After Another wins, it will be the first time a notable flop won Best Picture. It was made for around $170 million and only grossed $70 million domestically, and, like all the films up for Best Picture except Sinners, it made more money overseas. [...] That shows how little the Oscars and Hollywood really care about American audiences, and that’s not likely to change any time soon.
Hollywood and the Oscars only make sense if they care about the public. [...] They might always have paraded around like they’re better than the rest of us, but at least they still made movies for us...
What do we get out of it now? The movies are mostly terrible. [...] The celebrities have become irritating and unlikable. Why should anyone waste their time caring about any of it? (MORE - missing details)
EXCERPTS (Sasha Stone): In 1978, Paddy Chayefsky took to the stage at the Oscars and condemned the use of the ceremony as a political platform. What made him so mad? Vanessa Redgrave...
[...] 48 million people watched that episode. This year, the Oscars will be lucky to get 20 million. What might help is that a popular movie is in play: Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, which made waves for breaking the record for nominations (16) and for having two of the stars, Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, called the N-Word at the BAFTAs by a poor man who suffered from Tourette's Syndrome.
No writer today could ever come up with satire that good. The very people who try their hardest not to offend end up offending, and yet, it’s no one’s fault. Either way, it put Sinners in the spotlight...
Nothing gets better clicks and views than hating on the Oscars. It’s an annual ritual by now, as the wealthy and privileged parade about in their finery, an entire ecosystem is dedicated to dunking on them. It seems to be almost a sadistic pleasure by now. The more embarrassing the Oscars are, the better to dig in with a knife and fork.
Most people who watch on Sunday night will be hate-watching. Either because they can’t stand the movies on offer, or they can’t stand the celebrities who have become too political of late to tolerate. It’s a thousand Vanessa Redgraves and no Paddy Chayefskys.
It shouldn’t be a surprise that the ratings began to dip after 2016 [...] one of Hollywood’s biggest problems of late: they’re married to the Democratic Party.
And that’s all before they went woke and went broke. The Oscars, like every award show, were hit hard and ended up implementing a DEI mandate in 2024, which is why all movies and television shows look like THAT, and why so many are so unwatchable. They have lost their connection to real life, so how can they reflect it back to us?
[...] The predicted winner this year is a real doozy. One Battle After Another, which aims to satirize the Left and the Right, but comes away making the point that the revolutionaries aren’t skilled enough to take on the fascists and the Gestapo running this country.
If One Battle After Another wins, it will be the first time a notable flop won Best Picture. It was made for around $170 million and only grossed $70 million domestically, and, like all the films up for Best Picture except Sinners, it made more money overseas. [...] That shows how little the Oscars and Hollywood really care about American audiences, and that’s not likely to change any time soon.
Hollywood and the Oscars only make sense if they care about the public. [...] They might always have paraded around like they’re better than the rest of us, but at least they still made movies for us...
What do we get out of it now? The movies are mostly terrible. [...] The celebrities have become irritating and unlikable. Why should anyone waste their time caring about any of it? (MORE - missing details)