Oscars: The politics, the young and the restless

In an attempt to increase the ratings of the Academy Awards show, young presenters fill the stage, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin make the obligatory Meryl Streep jokes and history is written as a woman wins Best Director and an African-American wins Best Screenplay. The Na'vi from 'Avatar,' though, are nowhere to be seen

Accepting her well-deserved Best Supporting Actress award for her debut role as an abused mother in Precious, Mo’nique was unsurprisingly brazen and resentful – not to mention rude to her fellow nominees. Grabbing her Oscar, she thanked the Academy for rewarding the “performance not the politics.” This was, at the least, demeaning to the other nominees in her category.

By “politics,” Mo’nique was not talking here about the domination of the nominees ballot (and later the awards) by a movie on the Iraq War, or about the Academy being a “white boys’ club.” When she later clarified for the press what she meant, she said she was referring to her refusal to attend the overwhelming number of events in Hollywood to promote her movie in hopes of heading the Oscar race.

The big question nobody asked was what was she thinking about Oprah’s months of campaigning to pull Precious out from obscurity?

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