Politicians and Awards

Nominations for the 90th Academy Awards were announced Tuesday [January 23, 2018]. The 60th Grammy Awards are next Sunday [January 28].

My thoughts have given some focus to the fact that the mainstream entertainment industry have awarded politicians with nominations—and, in some case, statues—while normal thought would be for politicians and the entertainment industry to not mix so much.

I came across a list of those politicians with experience with the Grammy Awards. This includes Barack Obama and both Bill and Hillary Clinton. And Bernie Sanders is a current nominee. Here is a source: Grammys and Politicians.

From Oscar, the 2006 winner for best documentary feature was An Inconvenient Truth, which was about Al Gore on his efforts to educate the citizenry on global warming. (The above video is that Oscar presentation and the 45th vice president’s speech.)

Current president of the United States Donald Trump has been on the receiving end as well. After NBC’s The Apprentice premiered during the 2003–04 television season, Trump and the series were nominated for the Emmy for outstanding reality-competition program. Trump actually did win the 1990 Razzie Award for worst supporting actor in Ghosts Can’t Do It, a film starring Bo Derek. (The Golden Raspberry Awards [dis-] honors the worst in movies for a given year. They are held the day before the Academy Awards.)

Now, if mentioning Trump doesn’t fit with the narrative, because his experience came before his first-term election to the presidency of the United States, let us keep in mind that Ronald Reagan—who is so many proud conservatives’s ideal of the perfect president—was the president of the Screen Actors Guild of America. Twice.

The only major awards I can think of which has not awarded nominations—or, in any cases, statues—to any politicians is the Tony Awards. But, that may be due to the American Theatre Wing specifying the eligibility requirement of location—Broadway! (Trump should have considered that.)

What to make of all this?

I don’t know exactly. But, the term starfucking springs to mind. We could just call it politicianfucking.