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Crass Promotion
This is a difficult game to play, applying an aesthetic criteria to the crass commercial promotion of the Hollywood film industry. There was a time, possibly, when the handing out of the statuettes was akin to a coronation but nowadays (and certainly for a long time now), they are more of a curse than a blessing.
I'll tune in to see what Jon Stewart makes of events and try to derive some pleasure from what is typically a long, boring and butt-clinchingly embarrassing, stilted presentation but I certainly wouldn't consider The Academy to be any kind of taste-making body. They're not specifically interested in film excellence, they're just interested in industry. I don't tune in with favourites, I just pray for upsets.