I didn't watch the entire awards because I find them rather boring, but from what I gathered, I thought most of the major awards went according to predictions.
IMO, the Oscars have been kind of a political/popularity contest farce from its inception. I was talking with my best friend today and we were discussing the Oscar years from the past. How does Humphrey Bogart not even get nominated for Best Actor in 1949 for "The Treasure of the Sierra...
I never heard that term nor argument before you brought it up here! As to these awards, I gave up on them more than 25 years ago when Shakespeare in Love won over Saving Private Ryan.
I don't know why I'm being dragged into either as I disagree with his opinion about Gladstone's performance not being worthy of being nominated. Hell, I never heard of that term "virtue signaling".
Yes! Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the Pitt and Jolie movie is being released as a TV show on Amazon with African American and Asian actors as the title characters.
My question is this, why do Native Americans can only be cast in films about Native Americans? Why can't Native Americans be cast in a variety of different type of films just like Asian, African American and Latin actors to name a few?