It's Academy Awards Season! Our panel of experts sits down to talk about the Oscars! What are they? Why are they? How did they come to be? It's a four hour program full of tiny clips of movies, awkward shots of celebs, and where you walk away with a paper weight, so what's the deal?
Music:
The Oscars Theme - Greg Hulme
Links:
- 2018 article from NPR: in 2016 after it was revealed that 92% were white and 75% male -
- 2018 article from MotionPictures.org - in 2014, the Academy voter was on average 63 years old, with 76% of the members being male, and 94% of the members being white.
- Preferential voting explanation
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