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They'll Give You An Oscar If They Think You're About To Drop Dead. The Problem With The Oscars Is, The Average Age Of The Academy Is 84. They Wheel Those People In From Palm Springs And Hook Up Their Ivs And They Vote. The People That Go To Movies Are Under The Age Of 28, For The Most Part, So There's This Total Disconnect Between What The Academy Thinks Is A Great Movie And What The Audience Actually Wants To See.

I Love Martin Scorsese, But There's Another Indication Of What The Oscars Are All About. They've Ignored Martin Scorsese For Going On 35 Years Now, And I Wouldn't Be Surprised If They Passed Him Over Again. He'll Get One Of The Oscars They Give You At The End Of Your Life Because They Feel Guilty For Never Giving You An Oscar.

I Made The Mistake Of Watching "a.i." On Cable The Week They Showed It About 792 Times, And I Ended Up Watching It Every Time It Was On.

I Always Remind People Why The Oscars Got Started In 1928: It Was An Effort By The Studios To Suppress The Unions. They Started The Academy Because All The Screenwriters And Directors And Actors Were Unionizing, And They Thought, "we'll Have Something That Resembles A Union, But That's Completely Controlled By The Moneyed Interests In Hollywood." That's What It's Been All These Years. It's Something That Reinforces Hollywood's Image Of Itself. The Best Picture One Year Was Gandhi. Nobody Watched Gandhi, But That's The Kind Of Picture That Always Wins.

The Fifties Were When People Started Coming Down On "juvenile Delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"--anybody That Was Young, Wore A Motorcycle Jacket, And Didn't Act Polite Around Older People.