Sasha Stone has made a career out of following the movie industry and the Oscars. Writing for Tablet, she describes the prolonged death throes of the US film industry.
Stone lays out why the Oscar winners are most often films you've heard little about and have no desire to see. She describes how and why the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was enlarged by adding people from overseas film studios who have no commitment to the Hollywood product.
Along the way she shares how someone blew her cover and reported that she'd voted for Trump in 2016, it destroyed her decades-old relationship with the US film industry, via cancel culture.
She notes the industry still produces an occasional audience favorite and mentions Top Gun Maverick, Oppenheimer, and Barbie as examples. Her main villain is "woke," which the industry has whole-heartedly embraced while the country has mostly shrugged off when it voted to reelect Trump.
