Oscar season is here — and so is all of its hyper-competitiveness, messiness, and downright pettiness.
The bizarre stories of Hollywood heavyweights campaigning for the industry’s highest honor is nothing new. Remember when disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein was rumored to have run smear campaigns against Best Picture winners A Beautiful Mind and The Hurt Locker? Or when the NAACP ran an odd protest against 10-time Oscar nominee The Color Purple due to “stereotypical” depictions of Black men? Or when nominee-turned-winner Melissa Leo took her own glam ads in the trades...
The bizarre stories of Hollywood heavyweights campaigning for the industry’s highest honor is nothing new. Remember when disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein was rumored to have run smear campaigns against Best Picture winners A Beautiful Mind and The Hurt Locker? Or when the NAACP ran an odd protest against 10-time Oscar nominee The Color Purple due to “stereotypical” depictions of Black men? Or when nominee-turned-winner Melissa Leo took her own glam ads in the trades...
- 11/20/2021
- by Ernest Owens
- Rollingstone.com
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