Much has been said about the controversy surrounding this year’s Academy Award nominees. Anora was slammed for not using an intimacy coordinator while Emilia Pérez has been heavily criticised by the LGBTIQA+ community, not to mention the lead Karla Sofía Gascón’s racist tweets and Mexico’s criticism of the film. Best Picture frontrunner The Brutalist has copped it too, after they admitted to using generative AI. Yet all this noise around the Academy Awards race seems pointless, because I don’t think The Oscars should exist at all.
