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So? It's their awards show. They can award it to anyone they want for any reason, good or bad. Witness the fact that they "honored" Michael Moore a couple of years ago for a very poorly made piece of hideous propoganda.

But it's still THEIR awards show.

Now don't get me wrong, I 100% agree with and applaud what this author wrote (I even agree with his reviews of the other films, down the line). What I disagree with is the unstated assumption that Hollywood ought to behave any differently. We get to criticize them, but we shouldn't expect them to change who they are.

Now, if we want to we can have our own awards show. We've had plenty of threads about "best picture" and other such categories (I liked the "best guy flick" the other day). But I bet there are FReepers out there who could actually organize an alternative film awards process that would represent the views of real people and not Hollywood robots.

So, any takers? Anybody think they have the organizing skills to get something like this off the ground?

I bet if we did it we could get the folks at the Liberty Film Festival interested in at least looking at what we come up with. Maybe an alternative to the Oscars (the Ronnys?) given 6 month's off cycle, around the 4th of July.