What If We Went to War and the Oscars Didn’t Care?

Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment OK, so it’s not like ICE and Iran made zero appearances Sunday night. A documentary winner called out “a government murder people on the streets of our major cities,” the international Oscar winner noted that “all adults are responsible for all children and let’s not vote for politicians who don’t take this seriously” and Javier Bardem said “no to all war.” But these were mostly lesser-knowns or, in Bardem’s case, an international figure, making mostly telegraphed or vague comments. The dozens of American Hollywood personalities who took the podium to open an envelope or accept its bounty mainly just said no to all commentary. Turn on the show oblivious to current events and you’d never have guessed the U.S. just launched a war whose heat ratchets up by the day. You’d never suspect government agents have been snatching Americans on the streets for months. If that happened, surely we’d hear a passionate deriding of a foreign regime, or a broadside against U.S. government policy, or … something. Not nothing. One late-night host did flex the muscle. Jimmy Kimmel sidestepped these two major issues but mocked the vanity of a docu-chasing White House and censoring ways of a TV mogul. He was on a lonely island. And not the good Andy Samberg kind. It’s not like Conan O’Brien didn’t give the room the opportunity; hell, he practically invited them to drop some Bad Bunny beats. “I should warn you, tonight things could get political. So there’s an alternate Oscars hosted by Kid Rock at the Dave and Busters down the street,” O’Brien riffed in his opening. But no electric poles were climbed. If God’s blessing was given to Latin America, we didn’t hear it. Related Stories Rambling Reporter Domino's Delivers at Vanity Fair's A-List Oscar Party News The Mys...