ANSWER: Parasites, perverts, touchy-feely freaks, lonely shut-ins and foreign enemies.

After more than a decade of holding the Academy Award ceremonies in at least late February, the 92nd Academy Awards will be held earlier – on February 9, 2020.


I cannot speak for anyone who reads this thread, but I will manage to skip another one:

Oscar Nominations Reflect the Academy’s Struggle to Regain Relevance
By Kyle Smith
January 22, 2019 1:47 PM

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/...ain-relevance/

https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...83#post2809383

Political strategists in Moscow and Peking are the Academy’s most loyal audience. They not only watch —— they record and analyze the show looking for pointers. The way the show is reported is as important as the show itself. Every foreign enemy know that Hollywood movies did more harm to this country than their armies could ever do.

If you start the clock in 1953 China and Russia never spent a penny producing their most effective propaganda.


The 25th Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 19, 1953. It took place at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood, and the NBC International Theatre in New York City.

It was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be televised, and the first ceremony to be held in Hollywood and New York City simultaneously. It was also the only year that the New York ceremonies were to be held in the NBC International Theatre on Columbus Circle, which was shortly thereafter demolished and replaced by the New York Coliseum convention center.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25th_Academy_Awards

Finally, these two articles help make my case:

Why Hollywood’s Cozy Relationship With China Could Face An Ugly Reckoning In The 2020s
By Emily Jashinsky
January 15, 2020

https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/15...-in-the-2020s/

And this:

On the balcony, to Xi’s right, was the politburo’s reigning propagandist, Wang Huning, a former professor who once travelled the United States and honed a prickly theory about dealing with its people.

The Future of America’s Contest with China
By Evan Osnos
January 6, 2020

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...est-with-china