11 actors who have dissed the Oscars: ‘It makes me want to throw up’
Many actors will work their whole lives to get an Oscar – or even a nomination for one. Over the years, since the award’s inception in 1929, showing off that golden statuette on your mantelpiece has become the benchmark of success for a director, performer, writer, and so on.
It’s the crème de la crème of awards shows: the most important event in the pop culture calendar. The Golden Globes could never. But not everyone feels the same. To some stars, Oscar-fêted and otherwise, the Academy Awards represents the very worst facets of the film industry: competitiveness, capitalism, and glad-handing, all of which runs completely contradictory to the art itself.
With the 96th Oscars ceremony around the corner, we’ve rounded up the A-list actors who have spoken out vehemently against the long-standing grandstanding tradition.
Bradley Cooper
Bradley Cooper is not a fan of the Oscars. Could that be due to his status as a 10-time nominee, zero-time winner? Perhaps. Will he change his tune if his Leonard Bernstein passion project nets him his first golden statuette next month? Perhaps.
The Star is Born actor-writer-director had some choice words to say about awards shows – not just the Oscars, but the whole shebang. Speaking to Hamilton star Anthony Ramos in 2020, Cooper described awards season as being “completely devoid of artistic creation”.
“It’s not why you sacrifice everything to create art,” he continued. “And yet you spend so much time being a part of it if you’re, in
