All this breathless Oscars campaigning is ruining the fun of the biggest awards show on earth

God, Bradley Cooper must be knackered. Since before the release of his actually rather good film Maestro, about the prolific American conductor Leonard Bernstein, which he wrote, directed and starred in, it feels like he’s been absolutely everywhere.

Whether it’s telling us how he “spent six years learning how to conduct six minutes and 21 seconds of music” for one scene, or why he won’t allow chairs on his sets (“I’ve always hated chairs on sets; your energy dips the minute you sit down in a chair”) and weeping over his connection with the conductor (who died