Posted on 03/11/2023 6:29:13 PM PST by simpson96
America may be deeply divided, but politics and the culture wars will not be center stage at this year’s Oscars if the organizers have their way.
“We’re not interested in distractions or partisan debate, we’re interested in Tom Cruise,” a 95th Academy Awards ceremony insider says of this weekend’s superstar and blockbuster rich show.
“We want to embrace the diversity of talent and nominees this year, and we want to try to go back to the days of escapism,” an AMPAS source adds of the dual ethos of the 2023 Jimmy Kimmel hosted shindig. Escapism may be a hard sell with Netflix’s anti-war film All Quiet On The Western Front on the ballot for Best Picture and other categories, but the Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss produced broadcast is aiming to stay primarily politically agnostic and controversary free, we hear.
Officially, the Academy had no comment on the role politics may or not may not play in this year’s Oscars.
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I think it was Tolstoy who wrote in “War And Peace’’ that “War is an excuse for men to wander around’’.
No but we have a whole new group of harpies yelling at the public telling them we have to save Ukraine. Same group that wanted to disarm us in Europe 40 years ago. Amazing to watch.
You are absolutely correct.
Marlon Brando and feather Indians in the 70s
Kimmel may have been the network's choice.
They forgot one thing. The movies are no good!!
Where are the BIG movies? The epics?!
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