Inside the Singular Hysteria of the Brutal Academy Awards Race

I was quite happy to see, among other things, Jeff Bridges win an Oscar last night. I don’t like hearing about “Oscar campaigns,” though. They smack too much of politics for me, but I guess it’s naive to think that politics doesn’t play a part…

It would be fun to report that the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards, which were announced February 2, were the result of brilliant maneuvering or diabolically clever stratagems, of masterstrokes and counterthrusts carefully planned in studio war rooms.