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<blockquote data-quote="D+1" data-source="post: 1660793" data-attributes="member: 13654">There are two awards I can think of that carry ANY real weight, or are anything less than a peurile, self-congratulatory shcmooze-fest.&nbsp; One is Peoples Choice, the other is BOX OFFICE/sales numbers.&nbsp; The Oscars is the worst offender by far.&nbsp; Year after year the discussion about who will win is based LASTLY on merit for work performed and foremost on who will get votes based on all other criteria - repeatedly lost so gets a sympathy vote, heavily campaigned, is owed favors by others, holds politically correct views, etc.&nbsp; I stopped watching them last year because it got me too p.o.'d to stand it anymore.Just for the fun of picking a nit, the actors don't vote on the technical awards.&nbsp; The Academy technical awards may actually be meritorious, but I don't know enough about the behind-the-scenes of the technical side of the motion picture world.&nbsp; Who does?&nbsp; Although, because of the sickeningly biased voting on the more celebrity-oriented categories, even if they ARE meritorious they retain the appearance of being used as consolation prizes to the actors/productions that just don't quite rate high enough on the brownie points scale to get awards for an ACTUAL &quot;best&quot; performance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="D+1, post: 1660793, member: 13654"] There are two awards I can think of that carry ANY real weight, or are anything less than a peurile, self-congratulatory shcmooze-fest. One is Peoples Choice, the other is BOX OFFICE/sales numbers. The Oscars is the worst offender by far. Year after year the discussion about who will win is based LASTLY on merit for work performed and foremost on who will get votes based on all other criteria - repeatedly lost so gets a sympathy vote, heavily campaigned, is owed favors by others, holds politically correct views, etc. I stopped watching them last year because it got me too p.o.'d to stand it anymore. Just for the fun of picking a nit, the actors don't vote on the technical awards. The Academy technical awards may actually be meritorious, but I don't know enough about the behind-the-scenes of the technical side of the motion picture world. Who does? Although, because of the sickeningly biased voting on the more celebrity-oriented categories, even if they ARE meritorious they retain the appearance of being used as consolation prizes to the actors/productions that just don't quite rate high enough on the brownie points scale to get awards for an ACTUAL "best" performance. [/QUOTE]

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