Over the past decade in particular, the annual Academy Awards ceremony has become increasingly irrelevant. Has anyone even seen “Nomadland,” the Best Picture winner from 2020? How about “Coda,” the 2021 winner of the awards for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay? 2023’s “Oppenheimer” might sound a bit more familiar, but I doubt anyone remembers that the three-hour biopic snagged Best Picture that year. Part of the reason that the high-profile awards ceremony has faded from much of the public’s radar is because the public has seen Hollywood for what it is: a self-aggrandizing cesspool of degeneracy and idiocy.
Serial sexual abuser Harvey Weinstein was, for a long time, a staple at the Academy Awards, producing and bankrolling Best Picture nominee after Best Picture nominee. Through Miramax and The Weinstein Company, the now-ostracized film mogul was involved with movies garnering 341 Academy Award nominations and over 80 wins. Although he was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2017 following public revelation of his numerous acts of perversion, sexual aggression, sexual assault, and rape, the fact remained that Weinstein had fostered friendships and professional relationships with some of the biggest names in cinema, from directors like Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese to stars like Ben Affleck and Meryl Streep. Given the prolific nature of Weinstein’s sexual abuse, it seemed (and still does seem) nearly impossible that his close friends and repeat collaborators were unaware of his sadistic acts.
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