Well, the mostly predictable Oscar nominations arrived on Tuesday morning with no disasters or truly egregious missteps. Even the snubs were fairly routine: No female directors, though women won the directing award in the past two years; James Cameron and Joseph Kosinski, both with Best Picture nominees, were left out too.
Which normalcy is too bad. And I mean that in the nicest possible way. It’s a weird but undeniable fact of Hollywood life that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and its pet awards ceremony feed on their own mistakes.
Let things go well or follow an expected path, and the Oscars turn into a yawn. But screw something up, and suddenly it’s the Greatest Show On Earth all over again– back on the pedestal, just waiting to be knocked off by the howling crowd.
Errors are an asset. Gaffes are gold. The Academy is never so interesting as when it is just, plain, obviously wrong. This is not a casual mechanism.
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