It’s been a full decade now since I attended the Academy Awards ceremony for this very same publication, and chat, I am feeling, like, totally cooked. I reread the piece to prepare to once again write about the Academy Awards for the Guardian, and I was shocked by how mundane the whole experience came across on the page. Besides, the Academy has a slightly more important issue to deal with: specifically, the potential collapse of the entire film industry. I remember being young, outside the Hollywood machine, and being starstruck by the Academy Awards. I can only guess at how many film industry workers got into the business because of watching the Academy Awards, but I’m sure it’s not an insubstantial number.

Source: The Guardian March 15, 2026 19:01 UTC