Fancy Awards Shows

Awards shows: an invaluable means of recognizing our best and brightest, or outdated, out-of-touch pageantry? Join us as we decide!

Cited in this episode:

"Plato’s Academy Awards (or, What the Ancient Greeks Have to Do with the Oscars,)" by David Saunders. Getty Museum Blog.

"Sick of award ceremonies? So were the ancients," by Peter Jones. Spectator Australia.

"Dionysia – the Original Ancient Greek Carnival," n.d., GreekerThanTheGreeks.

"Great Dionysia," n.d., Brittanica.

"The City of Dionysia," n.d., The Theatre Database.

"List of Olympic medalists in art competitions," n.d., Wikipedia.

Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears, by Michael Schulman. Publisher Website.

Fresh Air: Best Of: 'Oscar Wars,' Marc Maron. NPR.

"The 23 Most Shocking Moments in Oscars History," by Patricia Garcia and Emma Specter. Vogue.

"2023 Awards Season Guide," by Stacy Lambe. Entertainment Tonight.

"How Award Shows - like the Oscars - Illustrate How Influential Fashion Can Be," by Sarah G. Schmidt. It by Sarah G. Schmidt.

"After a makeover, the Golden Globes return to NBC. For how long remains to be seen," by Brian Lowry. CNN.

"Genre Is Disappearing. What Comes Next?" by Amanda Petrusich. The New Yorker.

"We Need the Academy Awards to Save the Movies That Only Get Made Because Oscars Exist," by Anne Thompson. IndieWire.

Further reading:

If you want to see all of Jerry Orbach’s life-changing performance of “Be Our Guest” because he was a legend and we’ll love him forever: Youtube. (Also, it turns out it was at the Academy Awards, not the Tony Awards!)

If you want to read more about the best animated feature category and its sordid past: “Is the Best Animated Feature Oscar Broken?” by Keith Phipps. The Ringer.

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XOXO Grace