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Post by Toasted Cheese on Jul 18, 2020 10:13:32 GMT
It's always been like this. The academy judges actors not only by the quality of their performances, but also by their public persona and off-screen behaviour. It's an open secret that Russell Crowe lost out to Denzel Washington in 2002, because of an incident when he threw a phone at a hotel employee. I heard his loss had something to do with him having choked some man (a producer?) backstage at one of the award shows (the BAFTAs I think). Crowe had won all 4 precursors, but he didn't the win the Oscar, strangely. I find it very hard to believe that enough Academy members not only bothered to watch Training Day but felt that Washington's performance was worthy enough of the win. I don't really trust that the results are the true results. The late producer Julia Phillips wrote in one of her books that when she arrived at the theater and saw the seating arrangement of the 1974 Oscars, it gave her pause about Price Waterhouse. I have not seen Training Day, but I do feel that it was a year of Academy virtue undermining itself with the black award winners. Heck, even Sidney Poitier won an honorary Oscar if I recall. He already had one. I also don’t believe that the films awarded are the genuine results. With all the political and questionable choices made, does that mean all Academy voters are operating from the same agenda? Do they call up each other to make sure they vote for whatever cause is relevant at the time? I don’t believe that either and it appears pretty obvious to me that the voters are voting for films and performances they haven’t even seen. |
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