Your Turn
This is of course awards season and today the Academy Award nominations came out which kind of is the beginning of the end of it all. My question to all of you today is what award show do you always watch or usually watch? Do you skip them all? I tend to favor something like the Grammy Awards because there are performances which seem to make it go more quickly. I like the Tony's for the same reason, but only if I have been to New York and seen most of the shows otherwise it is boring.
I skip them all. I don't really care about the awards, I care about the gossip!
ReplyDeleteI'm with Sue Ellen on this one, i dont watch any of the awards shows
ReplyDeleteWhile I always watch the Golden Globes, it was the best this year watching it while commenting with all of you!
ReplyDeleteI also watch the Oscars (though I'm really bummed out about Fassbender right now), the Grammys, the Emmys and the MTV award shows.
Honestly, I usually decide based on who's hosting. As such, I watched the GG the last two years in a row. Billy Crystal for the Oscars this year? I'll pass.
ReplyDeleteI skip 'em all...
ReplyDeleteI used to watch the Oscars religiously. Now, I don't care as much and will watch during commercials for other shows I'm watching.
ReplyDeleteI always watch the GG and the Oscars. they are *my* "Superbowl", as I don't follow sports much. I just have fun with them, making fun of the back patting and pretentiousness and them being so serious about themselves. Also, the pretty dresses! LOL
ReplyDeleteI also watch the Emmys.
I used to watch the Oscars, but I've gotten out of the habit. I've lost patience with most of the drawn-out suspense that awards shows have, so I'm better off distracting myself doing other things and then getting the news the next day or later that evening.
ReplyDeleteI watch the Oscars. My daughter and I used to do the whole preshow thing and watch it from start to finish. Now that she is away at college, I don't know if we will do it this year. We didn't last year (Freshman year) and it sucked without her. To me, nothing says bad jokes, bad clothing choices and side eyes at the competition better than the Oscars. Throw in a bowl of popcorn and M&M and the only thing missing is snarky remarks exchanged between my daughter and me. *sigh* I am going to miss that.
ReplyDeleteI used to stay up and watch the Oscars, even though they are in the middle of the night European time, and often end around 5am, right when it's time to get ready to go to work!
ReplyDeleteBut I haven't recently. Partly it's because they've been less compelling, with boring hosts.
Partly because I cancelled my TV subscription and now get most of my programming off the internet.
Partly because the idiotic Danish hosts talking over the top - "Og nu kommer Angelina Jolie og Brad Pitt, sikke en flot kjøle hun har på! - are exasperating.
I miss the excitement, though. Maybe a really great film will get me to watch again.
I used to watch most of them, but not anymore. Now I feel like they all try so hard to be good, that they end up being bad. I do usually still watch the MTV shows though but only because they put them on demand after the fact so I can fast forward through the garbage.
ReplyDeleteI'll also watch if there's a particular GREAT batch of films that came out that year, but like this year? Please. They want to act all stuffy like the Oscars are the greatest achievement ever......fine, but nominate some worthy shit. Not Bridesmaids and Moneyball. At that rate its now I see why Lindsay Lohan believes an Oscar is attainable.
Only the Oscars! I love The Movies! When I moved and I didn't have ANYTHING except for a phone -- my best friend called me so I could HEAR the Oscars ( we hung up during commercials) but she called me because she knew it meant something to me. Even now I'm 8 hours ahead I still watch! Have to
ReplyDeleteI used to just watch the MTV awards but then I got older. Music awards send me over the edge because the music is always overly terrible and it's supposed to be the best? Ugh.
ReplyDeleteThe Oscars used to be fun but since they shortened the campaign time, there's no suspense anymore. And yeah, if the host sucks, why bother? Billy Crystal? Really? His face is so fucked up looking, plus he's not funny.
I usually watch the big ones, GG's Oscar's & Grammy's. GG's & Oscars for fashion and acceptance speeches and MTV for its outrageousness. Used to really dig the MTV Awards but lately they're really lame.
ReplyDeleteI record them all(GG's, Oscar's, Grammy's) and then start the show about an hour in and fast forward through the commercials, long speeches or boring performances.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm the nightmare demographic for marketing execs. :)
I like the SAGS. I like the round tables rather than the stuffy concert-hall seating of the Oscars. I like that they reward TV acting as well as movies. I like the fact that many of the actors seem half-sloshed.
ReplyDeleteI like that (if I understand the process) 100,000 working actors vote. There are 6000 members of the Academy, of which only +/- 600 are actors, and they skew OLD.
So - a better voting system, a broader voting base, a more fun evening, and more actors to watch.
Another award I like to watch on YouTube is the AFI awards. These focus on just one star per year and are amazingly entertaining. It's more of a roast than an a award, and it's fun watching the presenters make fun of the awardee, rather than reading lines from a teleprompter and thanking their agent and parakeet.
don't watch that dreck, but like to make fun of the dresses the next day on the gossip sites.
ReplyDeleteI think awards shows are boring(and resent that my regular programs are pre-empted due to it) and I don't watch any of them. All I care about is what gowns they wore and I see that the next day in the news,anyway.
ReplyDeleteI watch all of the Globes cos it's fun to see who's getting trashed (verbally and booze-wise). I watch the carpet for the Oscars. The ceremony is so bloody dull, and its on at stupid o'clock in Europe so I don't bother.
ReplyDeleteI used to watch all of them, but now I can barely muster the enthusiasm. To call most of the people appearing on them second-rate is an insult to second-raters everywhere. But I did enjoy Anne Hathaway on the Oscars last year - James Franco not so much. And I watched the Golden Globes this year so I could join in the CDAN liveblog which was fun.
ReplyDeleteEmmys, GGs and SAGs. Sometimes Oscars. And I try to catch the red carpet to see the dresses. But never Grammy or MTV or the monthly country music awards.
ReplyDeleteI've never planned to sit down and watch any of them.
ReplyDeleteI kind of like watching bits and pieces of the red carpet or opening monologues but that's it.
I always watch the Grammy Awards.
ReplyDeleteI like the globes - as awards go they're pretty meaningless. I don't watch the Grammys unless they nominate somebody decent. I do watch the acting ceremonies throughout the season. I Love the Independent Spirit Awards. Those always rock. And The Oscars are big with me. I Love the Oscars. I love movies and movie history. That moment when the envelope is about to be opened and the winner is announced - that silence - that moment of tension. I live for that. I'm a sucker for the Oscars. Love the behind the scens of it all too. There are some great books about the oScars out there. The best I read was "The Big Show" by Steve Pond. He had backstage access to 15 years of Oscar shows. Some real juicy stuff in there for gossip lovers. Let's just say Madonna didn't become a bitch overnight.
ReplyDeleteI don't watch any of the awards shows. I just look forward to the pictures of the ugly and fabulous dresses the next day.
ReplyDeleteNone. They're boring.
ReplyDeleteI watch the Golden Globes, the Oscars, and the Tonys. I like to see what everyone is wearing, and I love the performances on the Tonys.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the GG's and Oscars and love to see what everyone is wearing AND of course the gossip.
ReplyDeleteIm an award show addict. I love then despite the fact that I know most are staged and I don't recognize half the performers/acts being honoured
ReplyDeleteI always watch The Golden Globes and Oscars. I'll watch the others if I remember they're coming on & DVR them. I feel more personally invested when I've seen all the films, which is usually my goal this time o' year.
ReplyDeleteI used to watch The Oscars but I find awards shows are mostly boring unless they have a really good host. Even then, I'm not terribly likely to watch them.
ReplyDeleteI only watch the show if I like the host. Give me Hugh or NPH and I am there.
ReplyDeleteI usually watch the Oscars but skip the rest. They have way too many award shows. Too many people who just want to congratulate themselves.
ReplyDeleteI HATE awards shows. All of them. So much narcissism concentrated into one small event. It's repulsive.
ReplyDeleteLove the GGs (especially this year with the live chat here) and the SAGs. Then the Guild awards. Then the Indie Spirits. Then the Emmy's. Then the Oscars.
ReplyDeleteAlso like the ESPYs.
Don't like the music awards shows except for MTV ones. Which I watch out of habit.
I like award shows but not so much the awards. I'm interested in the production values and am incensed/intrigued when a show gets an award for being an awards show.
Huge fan of Gil Cates and sorry he is not around to do them any more.
The Tony's, I'm much more interested in the stage awards. I used to love the Oscars, but not so much lately. I'll watch the People's Choice because I'm a people and I vote for that one. Other than that, it depends on who's hosting. I'll watch Billy Crystal, but I'm pretty disillusioned with the nominees this year.
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