I agree with you except I have to say when Jamie Lee Curtis won best supporting actress
OMG
I went completely crazy
that right there is what makes me watch awards shows
AND
now these damn huge studios
what don't they get
without a script
an idea
there's no
films
tv
to be made
forget
reality
Award shows are nothing more than self promotion of themselves. And act like self advertising.
Like advertising, the less advertising the less popularity.
The award shows once mattered. Since they have become so much more than a few once or twice a year but rather at least a 100, all with varying degrees of actual criteria beyond marketing campaigns and now the over-compensating “inclusive,” nature of certain categories going out of their way