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How Not to Drown in Your Own Bullshit
Anecdotes About Drowning in the Future
And the Oscar goes to... Anime?
For decades the Oscars had been a pretty homogenized affair. For the larger part of its lifespan Oscar nominations and awards were always pretty much vanilla in nature. Occasionally, guys like Sydney Portier peppered things up a bit, but these were usually the exception that proved the rule. The same has been true when it comes to which film genre's get the golden cow of acting. Avatar and District 9, by getting nominee nods, did more to bring attention to just how ritually overlooked the science-fiction genre really is. As Oscar hopefuls, many thought that this would be the year of sci-fi coming out of the closet.
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