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#theoscars

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Alo Japan

alojapan.com/1227502/served-at Served At The Oscars And The Dodger Stadium, Japanese Sake Is Becoming An American Drink #BrooklynKura #Dassai #HakkaisanBrewery #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseCulture #JapaneseFood #JapaneseNews #JapaneseSake #news #sake #sushi? #TheDodgerStadium #TheOscars Japanese sake was served at the Academy Awards for the first time in 2025. Brett Ziegler / The Academy The guests at the 2025 Academy Awards saw something new: Japanese sake. It was…

Larry Russwurm

Betting on the Oscars

The Oscar awards need more stats. Enough so the big gambling companies can make a huge amount of money off of the proceedings. In each category, I would like to see how the approximately 10 000 votes went, exactly. Then I could try placing a bet for Demi Moore winning best actress by a 1 000 votes or some such number.

Or you could bet on whether nominees win, place or show in their categories. You could even have an exactor or a triactor, like in horse racing. Of course it wouldn’t pay off as much because there are fewer nominees than horses in a horse race.

I’ve also heard there are ad campaigns for certain nominees to win. This should be made public for the purpose of gambling as well. Then gamblers could say well nominee A hardly campaigned at all whereas nominee B spent a small fortune on advertising. This information may be crucial for their wagering.

Then of course the best picture voting is done differently. It is actually a ranked ballot. That is where you rank the nominees from 1 to 10 from your favourite to your least favourite. First, the least favourite nominee is knocked out of the voting. Then the second least favourite is knocked out. All until one picture has 50% of the vote and is declared the winner.

You could use exactor and triactor betting on this. But, importantly, it would be a way to improve ranked ballot knowledge which is often used in politics. Like the Liberal Party of Canada is using in its vote for a leader to replace Justin Trudeau.

For better breakdowns of the voting, I think it is best for each voter to identify themselves in a category, for which they are most known for. Like actor, director, editor, producer, etc. Then we could break down each win further. Thus we could have the favourite actor’s actor, the favourite director’s actor, or the favourite producer’s editor. You would be able to bet in all categories.

Price Waterhouse Cooper have tabulated the results for many years, with only two people knowing the final result before the announcement. That system would have to change. Can’t Oscar use automated vote tabulators? If it’s good enough for politicians, then it should be good enough for the academy. Then we could do this more complicated numbers system that I would like to see at the Oscars.

Then betting advertisements would dominate the ads on the Oscars show. And perhaps more viewers would be enticed because they, personally, would have something to win or lose in the show. With all that betting and the stars, perhaps Oscars ratings wouldn’t slip any further.

#10000Voters#actors#adCampaignsShouldBeDisclosed
Sim Barr

Shelley Winters wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Petronella van Daan, the pseudonym of Auguste van Pels, in the 1959 film The Diary of Anne Frank. She would later donate it to the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam.

#oscar#oscarhistory#theoscars
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J. R. DePriest :verified_trans: :donor: :Moopsy: :EA DATA. SF:

2025 Oscar nominations: 5 takeaways : NPR

I haven't seen Emilia Pérez but it seemed like a cis fever dream version of the idealized trans experience though the life of a transitioning drug lord.

This brutal section of the linked article says it better than I can and makes a point to elevate films made by actual trans directors that were snubbed.

Emilia Pérez? Seriously? Thirteen nominations?
Selena Gomez plays the wife of a Mexican cartel boss in Emilia Pérez.
Apart from praising the historic lead actress nomination of Karla Sofia Gascón (the first openly trans person of any gender to be nominated for an acting Oscar), I will leave it at this: This tone-deaf, mystifyingly bad musical about a trans Mexican cartel leader provides the kind of insight into Mexican culture, and revelations about the trans experience, that you'd reasonably expect from a cis Frenchman, writer/director Jacques Audiard.
Kidding, mostly. After all, cis men can make great films about trans people, like Sean Baker's Tangerine and Gil Baroni's Alice Junior. It's just that Audiard … very, very didn't.
(The history of trans folk nominated for Academy Awards is a slim one: English composer Angela Morley was nominated twice, in 1974 and 1976. Musician Anohni was nominated for best song in 2016. And in 2018, documentarian Yance Ford was the first openly trans man to receive a nomination. Elliot Page wasn't yet out as trans when he received his acting nomination for Juno in 2008.)
In showering Emilia Pérez with 13 nominations – just one short of tying the record 14 nominations received by Titanic, La La Land and freakin' All About Eve – the Academy ignored two other films that addressed trans themes in far less glib and more thoughtful, resonant ways than Emilia Pérez managed to do: I Saw the TV Glow and The People's Joker. Both, as it happens, were made by trans filmmakers. So if you do check out Emilia Pérez, do yourself the favor of checking those two out as well.

#TheOscars #EmiliaPérez #EmiliaPerez #Trans #Transgender
#ISawTheTVGlow #ThePeoplesJoker

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