according to some show i am watching, this sunday night are the oscar awards for the art of film. they asked some guy nominated for some award on how he feels about it. apparently he's humbled to have been nominated and that is enough for him, doesn't care who wins and will enjoy the show.

i'm not exactly sure what really means behind such a comment because you cannot take it at face value. there is a hidden message lurking when celebrities state this. are they saying this a waste of their time but they'll pretend to care, show up to say a few pointless words if their name is called? i'd like to think many celebrities approach it this way. i mean, they get paid for the movie not for the award. as a far as i am concerned the oscar is just a trophy with no cashable checks being handed out backstage later on to accompany him. movie awards are not like some bonus at a regular person's job where the award carries a financial incentive for their contribution. for an actor making films and getting paid, that's the reward. should they win an oscar, it compares to a regular person at a regular job going to the company party getting a coffee mug with their logo on it. like what the fuck? i came to this for a coffee mug? fuck this! i would be interested in knowing what percentage of people nominated act this way.

now on the television programme about the oscars, they asked another girl nominated for the first time how she feels. in her reponse she stated being extremely nervous. can you take that comment on face value? no probably not. what does being nervous before the award show really mean? i'd like to think the person hopes for their dear life to win because if they do not, the next role will be on a made-for-tv movie. they just do not want to come out and say for fearing of losing before the award show goes to air. so they guise the true intentions below subtle fears if they are to be rejected. that's what pisses me off about these shows. i've never actually heard any of them come out and be all, "fuck yeah! i hope i win! what the fuck do you think?! moron". i'm sure a good chunk of the nominees are having those thoughts float in their mind as they lie by saying they're nervous.

if they injected award shows with more authencity and sucked out the insincere modesty, i'd probably tune in to watch. the preshow interview would have the nominees trash talking each other, bashing their movies and it must happen, physical violence. the actual criteria for awarding best actor would not only include the actual vote, but the nominees would have some sort of feats of strength contest. having some hundred old dudes watch films and then judge what and who is the best is not satisfactory for me.

the actual award shows would get rid of the divisions between awards based on sex. what is the point of making best male and best female categories? i've never actually understood the point behind this division. are somehow male and female actors that different that they cannot be judged equally? is this some kind of job equity programme instituted by the government to include equal recognition. who came up with his brillliant idea and why the fuck is it this still around? now i know the hollywood neighbourhood isn't shy about the liberal beliefs, but isn't this straying away from their beliefs? wouldn't they wouldn't to eliminate these distinctions? it's another reason i do not watch awards because i do not watch movies to see who is the best male and the best female, just simply who is the best.

also awards do not change my opinion on who is the best after they've been handed out. ed norton was the best actor of 1999 in fight club but no oscar award to prove that. i do not know who won in '99 but i do not care because mr. norton was the fucking man! all of us come in with our list of favourites, and whether they are not even nominated, they'll always be the best. no awarded being handed to someone else is going to change. looking at the list of best movies, i have not seen any of them and doubtfully will until they are playing on tbs every 5 hours. by then, i'll pretty much be forced to watch it. that's why award shows literary mean nothing. they achieve nothing. prove nothing. persuade no one and the most expensive and unproductive project since the soviet union.

which is why i do not get our culture's fascination with award shows such as grammy's and the oscars. when people say they mean nothing, they're absolutely right. the arts are too subjective to be judged and then voted on with greatest plurality chosen as the best whatever. it doesn't make it the best by the fact a small percentage of those who saw it actually vote on it. there's of course the people's choice awards but on the status scale, they rank up there with the coffee mugs i talked about earlier. so if you think about it, the oscars mean so much as being the pinnacle of film awards and yet, a miniscule fraction actually decide on what is the best. it's almost as bad as majority of the world's democratic nation. so few of us vote but so much is at stake. maybe that's a horrible analogy because the democratic vote means a lot more than an oscar.

but then again, in our culture, for some people the oscar holds so much more than their democratic duty. which is also one of the reasons i find celebrities and political causes so suspicious. i mean, political celebrities may have the most sincere intentions when speaking their minds, but the selfishness of the hollywood community makes it seem they are isolated in their own paradise: do not marry outside of their celebrity friends fear of losing their social status, don't exactly walk through town out of fear and so forth. in their amazing uptopian world, do they really care about bush's proposal to privatize social security? maybe a few of them do, but a dickload made enough to live easily and no need to fret about coin when they "retire."

so this sunday as millions tune into to watch people walk down a red carpet to show off their attractiveness (or ugliness), i'll do something else like, i'm not sure what exactly, but avoid the oscars. to sum it up, they are fake, boring, nothing anyone can really relate to and generally do not make a shitting difference in our shitty lives.

so this sunday evening you should to something other than watch television. grab your lover. friend. book. wife. child. sibling. or blog. whoever and do something exclusively with them because the awards aren't going to mean anything at all come monday morning and your life will lose out on a potentially meaningful occurance. potentially, i can't guarantee anything.