The Oscars, as we knew them, are no more - haven't been for a while, actually.

Once they represented excellence, when they awarded truly great movies with prizes.

Sure, they sometimes missed the mark. Like in 1976 and 1980 (Rocky over Taxi Driver and Ordinary people over Raging Bull? - pleeease. But at least both Taxi Driver and Raging Bull were nominated)

Everything, everywhere all at once, Nomadland, Parasite, CODA, Power of the Dog - these are not great movies.

Hell, they aren't even GOOD movies. What they are, instead, are movies, that hit all the politically correct notes.

So, that is now the Oscars.

Not artistic excellence, but, as their new official rules state: The Academy of Motion Picture will disqualify movies from Best Picture contention that do not have enough black, gay and disabled actors in the cast and crew from 2024.

Actually, they have done exactly that since at least 2020.