The Academy keeps performing CPR on a dead patient. As they do in the movies, someone needs to melodramatically grab their shoulders, shake them and shout: The Oscars are dead, you idiot! They're dead and they're never coming back!If you want to know when exactly the Oscars breathed its last breath, look to one year ago this weekend: After slapping onstage, Will Smith accepted his Best Actor Oscar to a standing ovation.A standing O! That still shocks me, but then I remind myself: This is an industry that turned a blind eye to for decades. A crowd that gave child rapist an Oscar for Best Director in 2003 and a standing ovation in absentia. A town that regarded Woody Allen a misunderstood genius until that was no longer tenable.
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