Best Picture – Oppenheimer
Best Actor – Cillian Murphy for Oppenheimer
Best Actress – Emma Stone – Poor Things
Best Supporting Actor – Robert Downey, Jr. – Oppenheimer
Best Supporting Actress – Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers
Best Director -Chris Nolan – Oppenheimer
Best Song from “Barbie” – “What was I made for?” (Sung by Billie Elish)
In recent years, the Academy Awards (nicknamed “Oscars”) have become increasingly irrelevant. New rules of “woke-ism” have been created to ensure that the “right” films win. Who is the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts & Sciences to tell me a movie is better because it agrees with their ideology?
In the past, the show was more watchable, had more “movie stars” and seemed more important. There have also been some good choices. Examples, below…
Sandy Dennis for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966)
Peter Finch for “Network” (1976)
Timothy Hutton for “Ordinary People” (1980)
George C. Scott for “Patton” (1970)
Charlton Heston for “Ben-Hur” (1959)
Cliff Robertson for “Charly” (1968)
Liza Minnelli for Cabaret (1972)
Eileen Heckart for “Butterflies are Free” (1973)
Poor Choices and those who should have won…
1965’s Oscar winner for Best Actor: Lee Marvin for “Cat Ballou”
Probably the best example of Oscar’s hugest blunders would be in 1965. Lee Marvin won that year for “Cat Ballou”, a “comedy” western. For me, it should have been either Rod Steiger for “The Pawnbroker” or Richard Burton for “The Spy Who Came In from the Cold”.
Rod Steiger for “The Pawnbroker”
Richard Burton for “The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
Goldie Hawn won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for “Cactus Flower” (1969)
The better choice that year was Catherine Burns for “Last Summer” (1969)
Glenda Jackson won “Best Actress” twice for “Women in Love” (1970) and “A Touch of Class” (1973)
Carrie Snodgress should’ve won for “Diary of a Mad Housewife” (1970)
Ellen Burstyn should have won for “The Exorcist” (1973)
Paul Scofield won Best Actor for “A Man for All Seasons” (1966)
Richard Burton should have won for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966)
Dustin Hoffman won Best Actor for “Kramer vs. Kramer” (1979)
Peter Sellers should’ve won for “Being There: (1979)
Diane Keaton won for a Best Actress Oscar for “Annie Hall” when she should have won for….
“Looking for Mr. Goodbar” (1977)
Cloris Leachman won Best Supporting Actress for “The Last Picture Show” (1971)
The better choice: Ann-Margret for “Carnal Knowledge” (1971) or…
Barbara Harris for “Who is Harry Kellerman and why is he saying those terrible things about me?” (1971)
Jack Lemmon won Best Actor for “Save the Tiger” in 1973.
Marlon Brando should have won for “Last Tango in Paris” (1973)
Dustin Hoffman won Best Actor (again) for “Rain Man” (1988)
The Oscar should’ve gone to Jeremy Irons for “Dead Ringers” (1988)
What about those performances that weren’t even nominated?
Jack Nicholson and Shelly Duvall for “The Shining” (1980)
Dustin Hoffman and Susan George for “Straw Dogs” (1971)
Malcolm McDowell for “A Clockwork Orange” (1971)
Mia Farrow for “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968)
Genevieve Bujold for “Obsession” (1976)
John Wayne for “The Shootist” (1976)
2024 prediction: the big winner for this year’s Oscars will be “Oppenheimer” (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor.)
Text © 2024 – EricReports
Actress Ally Sheedy, an ex-Brat Packer who has since fallen on hard times, has found a new claim to fame as part of the “MeToo – Time’s Up” bowel movement. On 1/7/18, she issued a tweet, attacking actor James Franco, who had just won a Golden Globe for Best Actor.
In that tweet, she issued no specific allegation. It’s all by implication. Supposedly, a play they had done earlier had caused her to quit acting. Let me state that acting had already quit her. She hasn’t had any success since her lesbian (coming out?) feature titled “High Art”. [Success among the LGBTQ crowd, that is.] 
Ally Sheedy is years past it and she knows it. Best to grab some spotlight thru vauge allegations on a real celebrity.
James Franco, when questioned by Stephen Colbert, said he did not know what Ms. Sheedy was tweeting about. He continued on by saying that if he had done anything wrong in the past, he would try to make right.
This, apparently, wasn’t good enough for the Academy Award voters, who nearly shut out Franco’s film “The Disaster Artist”. It received only one nomination for “Best Adaptive Screenplay”.
Award shows have become showcases for activism. The films themselves must take a back seat to whatever ultra-left wing cause comes down the pike. The tip-off is in the rest of Sheedy’s rant, where she writes “Why is a man hosting?”
In this Trump-era, where real America stood up and voted against a radical feminist ideology, it’s indicative of the left to take a sore loser mentality and act out in destructive ways.
Text ©2018-ERN
The Academy Awards (aka “Oscars”) supposedly represent the best films Hollywood has to offer. In the past, what we used to call “movie stars” competed for the top prize. That was then, this is now. Today all the mystique is gone. Thanks to an overabundance of media, we know EVERYTHING there is to know about our celebrities…and the more I know, the less I like them. Formerly, movie studios protected (even covered-up) their images. Now we know all about their sex lives, their proclivities, and worst of all, their politics.
Last year, the Academy received a great deal of criticism for not nominating any black actors (namely, Will Smith for “Concussion”.) Consequently, “lifetime” members were let go and replaced with blacks and the politically correct.
I can’t really comment on most of the films that were nominated because I didn’t see them. 
The best of 2016? I saw “Vaxxed”, a documentary on MMR vaccines and whether or not they cause autism. The reason it wasn’t nominated is clear – the Hollywood establishment is in bed with the AMA. Truth be told, I believe the reason these massive drugs are being given to infants, is to create a more controllable populace.
I cannot sit through three hours of Hollywood cheese (labeled entertainment) or the endless speeches against Trump. Don’t we already know they hate our President? Do we have to hear their opinions – not based on fact – but on tripe peddled by the MSM, which bases their info from the one who lost: Hillary Clinton? “Racist, sexist, homophobe, Islamaphobe, xenophobe, blah, blah, blah,” yeah, we get it.
Text © 2017 – ERN
For the second year in a row, “African-American” actors were not nominated for an Academy Award. In reaction, Jada Pinkett Smith, upset over her husband Will Smith not being nominated, called for black actors to boycott the show. Also, the Motion Picture Academy has officially decided to let go many lifetime members for being too old and too white. Ironically, it is incorrect that no blacks received an Oscar this year – director Spike Lee received an honorary award. (He refused to attend.) “Straight Outta Compton” was also nominated for “Best Screenplay”.
“Lack of diversity” was the theme of the Feb. 28th program. Host Chris Rock scolded the audience with many satiric jabs.
The worst moment was when Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs pontificated on how it wasn’t enough to agree, that “inclusion makes us stronger” and that forced change was inevitable.
British actress Charlotte Rampling received weak applause when her name was read from the list of “Best Actress” nominees. She was one of the few to speak out against the Academy, saying, the reason black actors weren’t nominated was because they didn’t deserve it.
I expect a new quota system to begin next year – meaning blacks will be nominated or chosen to win based on their skin color.
The BET Awards, all blacks, all the time, does not have to abide by such rules of diversity.
Text (C) 2016 – Ericreportsnews