[hutzlibu]

"and the Academy is always there to stomp out their protest during the few minutes they get at the Oscars"

Hm, I have no knowledge or connection to the events, but "stomping out protests" made me expect a bit more dramatic events, than stopping someones speech, after his time was up.

"But Westenhofer’s speech was cut off mid-sentence after he used up his allotted time"

[bkq]

It's something the Academy has always engaged in, is with cutting of the microphone of the VFX artists. Other people are not treated like this.

[germinalphrase]

They may be harsher with VFX people, but speakers are routinely “played off” the stage with music before cutting mics.

[tough]

Fuck the academy

[StrangeATractor]

They lost all sense of credibility when Peter O'Toole was snubbed for Lawrence of Arabia, and then for the rest of his career.

It's just an industry meat parade designed to get you to watch their bullshit.

[JohnFen]

Did they ever have credibility?

The academy awards are literally nothing more than any other industry group awards: it's just people in the industry telling each other how awesome they are.

They are, and always have been, utterly meaningless.

[StrangeATractor]

No they didn't but giving Gregory Peck an Oscar over Peter O'Toole should have destroyed any notion of credibility.

[messe]

To be fair, of the nominations that year, I’d have given it to Jack Lemmon for The Days of Wine and Roses. So it’s not like it’s uncontentious that O’Toole was snubbed.