Do conservatives actually follow this nonsense from hollywierd??
None of us cares who wins the little statue. That's not the point. I pay a bit of attention because it's a screening device -- just one of many, but if a lot of people who watch movies for a living think something has merit, maybe it's worth reading a review and watching a trailer.
Do you watch any movies at all, either at home or in the theater? Do you watch any shows on tv? If so, you are a consumer of what the film industry produces.
How do you choose what to watch? Do you do your own picking, or do you outsource that to the streamers' algorithms?
Btw, I have the Oscars on in another window; I'm not paying much attention but I'm checking in on major awards.
Le Huy Quan just now gave the kind of speech you thought the Hollywood people no longer know how to give. He is ethnic Chinese, born in Vietnam. His American story started as one of the Vietnamese boat people; a very young child, he and five siblings escaped with their father by boat, while is mother and three more kids got out through Maylasia. He began with a tearful tribute to his mother, who is 84 and was watching from home. Then a tearful testimonial to America and a tearful tribute to his wife. You would almost think he was one of the Jewish emigres who had so much to do with making Hollywood what it was in the patriotic era both before and after WWII. Yeah, they're all bums in Hollywood.