Sunday, March 15, 2026 is the date for the 98th Academy Awards.
Ceremony will be on ABC.
In 2029, Oscar moves to YouTube.
I was thinking about how these showbiz awards have gone through changes.
The Oscars were invented in part to appease actors. Serve their egos. When they arrived on television in the 1950s, they were also designed to have viewers tune in—year after year—for a star-studded event which was built up to feel exciting and important.
Other big awards ceremonies followed.
In calendar order:
• Grammy Awards are for music.
• Academy Awards are for movies.
• Tony Awards are for not just theater—that is not specific enough—but for Broadway.
• Primetime and Daytime Emmy Awards are for the television.
Most of this used to be considered prestigious.
Over the last generation or so…U.S. citizens stopped considering became less engaged.
The Oscars, Tonys, Emmys, and Grammys now remind me of the mall. An indoor mall. These big awards cermonies, for these different mediums, are like the anchor department stores for an huge indoor mall. The other store are less prestigious, some not particularly important, but simply for entertainment. Filler.
What is the trend of indoor shopping malls? What is the trend for these showbiz awards ceremonies? Well, just like with indoor malls—and what has become of them now—there isn’t an interest, a use, and a need. Not for how people live. There are fewer music stores, movie theaters, and people have their personal setups at home…to accommodate what they do take in. Convenience.
I have given thought about how music, movies, and television is not all that great. But for what people do enjoy…they are glad to have something. Broadway or off-Broadway is costly. So, there isn’t much of art and much that is memorable and needing to be celebrated.
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