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"Dolby Theatre fell silent when Gaga didn't win"
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The second dramatic loss happened when Lady Gaga did not win for her song for The Hunting Ground, after Joe Biden appeared to eloquently introduce it, after all of the victims of sexual assault came out on stage in one of the evening’s most emotional moments. That the win for Best Song went to Spectre, a James Bond movie, instead — was just beyond horrifying. The entire Dolby Theatre fell silent when Lady Gaga didn’t win. It was so quiet I almost didn’t realize what happening. To see someone lose something who deserved it so much — it’s just the kind of thing that makes people never want to trust the Academy again with any of their interest or time. And honestly, after that, how many Oscar loyalists could be blamed for giving up.
We in this business know “deserves” got nothing to do with it. We know it is mostly a matter of publicists shifting sympathies behind the scenes, serving up a small selection of hand-picked items for the Academy to select from. We all know sitting there in the ritzy cathedral of celebrity that none of those winners got there on their own. They were all put there by strategists who helped give them their best possible chance. When I watch the Oscars, that’s what I’m thinking. I’m not thinking, ‘oh, well done,’ to the people who collect the statues. I’m thinking, ‘oh, well done,’ to the people who manage the people collecting the statues. They are very very good at their jobs — and some of them did exceedingly well tonight.
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