While I’m delaying my aforementioned HJNTIY post (I promise I’m not putting any thought into it), here’s a gem from Ross Douthat on the absurdity of the Oscars*
Obviously, there’s a long tradition of giving great actors their Oscars for the wrong movies (see Pacino, Al, and many others), and Winslet’s award will be a reward not only for The Reader but for Little Children and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and even Titanic, among many other fine performances. And when Hathaway wins her Oscar in 2017 or so, Rachel Getting Married will doubtless be one of the movies on the Academy’s mind when they reward her for playing Marie Curie, or a paraplegic lesbian math genius, or the wife of a concentration camp commandant who falls in love with a Jewish prisoner, or whatever.
*I’ll watch anyway, as I always do. I have high hopes for Hugh Jackman as host.
