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The Oscars Finally Got Out-Flopped

The Oscars Finally Got Out-Flopped

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Mar 25, 2022
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This is The Friday Post, Hung Up’s weekly roundup of celebrity mess and miscellanea. If you like this kind of thing, why not subscribe? Tonight’s post is long, so read on-site if you don’t want it to cut off!
Denzel Washington at the 63rd Annual Academy Awards. I love him! I know him, yall, I knooooow him. I know this man!  (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

I don’t like doing Oscar predictions because: either you’re right and it sucks, or you’re wrong and it sucks. You’re right because you can read the tea leaves and see a subpar offering pulling ahead in a contentious race; you’re wrong because sometimes it feels like a moral imperative to vote with your heart over your head! Whatever happens Sunday is not very relevant to me. An Academy that doesn’t even respect its craft or membership enough to honor them respectfully is bogus. And when the best performance of the year — Ruth Negga in Passing — is not nominated, how am I expected to care about anything bu…

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