Am I the only person in the World who cares not a jot for the Academy Awards

I'm not interested either. I love watching films themselves, but I really don't care who wins what award or embarrasses themselves in their acceptance speech, or wears the wrong clothes, or whatever. I'd rather watch the movies not thinking about all that stuff, and just get lost in the story. :)

I have absolutely no interest in the Acadamy awards or the emmys or the Oscars I find them very boring. I do like to watch movies and tv shows but I don't care about the awards they get.

I'm another one that doesn't care for the Academy Awards. To me all those people are so artificial and I don't know who a lot of them are any more. I also don't watch a movie just because A movie critic decides that a movie is good or bad. I have found that I like the ones that they recommend as being bad. The Academy awards is just so they can show off those skimpy so called dresses. I would like to see more go to the character actors and actress. I miss the times when The people that were the lower supporting cast were more interesting and looked more like the rest of us and not had to have plastic surgery to be so called beautiful.

You aren't alone. I couldn't care less. It is enough that I spend $10 to see their movies and then another $20 to buy it on DVD. Why do they have to interrupt my prime time television to award people for their outstanding work in the film industry? They get paid enough. That is all the thanks and recognition they should need.

No you are not the only one who has no interest, I dont either! It bores me, yes I do enjoy to watch the films and that, and I certainly admire some of the actors but thats about it. My husband was saying the other day that at one of these award things the runners up were getting goodie bag things with £40,000 worth of things in, can you believe that, its ridiculous.

The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences, a proffesional honorary organization maintains a voting membership of 5,829 as of 2007. I understand how you may feel that the decisions are somewhat bias, as actors constitute the largest voting bloc, numbering 1,311 members (22%) of the Academy's composition. All AMPAS members must be invited to join. Invitation comes form the Board of Governers, on behalf of Academy Branch Executives Committees. Membership eligibility may be achieved by a competitive nomination or a member may submit a name based on other siginificant contributions top the field of motion pictures. Although winning an Academy Award usually results in an invitation to join, membership is not automatic. New membership proposals are considered annually. The Academy does not publicly disclose it's membership, although as recently as 2007, press releases have announced the names of those who have been invited to join. The 2007 release also stated that it has just under 6,000 voting members. While the membership had been growing until 2003, stricter policies have kept it's size steady since then. Nonetheless, perhaps the AMPAS is in need of a more varying member thought panel. Academy Invites 115 to Become Members. Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. Retrieved on 2007-09-04

I never bother with them either, call it my cynical side but all these awards and things I think half the time the votes are rigged and it's totally fixed. What used to annoy me was the phone in votes, I mean that was a licence to print money and millions would ring up and they knew the result before the votes came in anyhow! I enjoy the films but Brit Awards, Grammies, whatever, I never tune in, just doesn't float my boat, I am not a big tv person anyhow. With all the stars flaunting themselves and how good am I, that I can do without!

I agree. I can't remember the last time I watched any of these type of award shows. Not to say I don't think they deserve it. I like to watch a good movie, but actually watching them in all their finery doesn't do a thing for me.

I dont care not a "jot" either lol

Nope, could care less. They get to much attention as is.

Well I am with you there, I could give a hoot about it all as well. I find it far more entertaining to be here on mylot, then watching all the pomp and circumstance. To many people with too much money, just sitting around and patting themselves on the back, boring and really I just can not relate.

No, you're not the only one... Honestly, I love the films, but I'm sickened by the salaries these people pull down per film. If that's not bad enough, why would I want to watch an award show that does several things. First, it shows a bunch of beautiful people who paid more for the dresses or tuxes than I spend on my mortgage in a YEAR...a further reminder of just how much money they have. Then it hands out awards, which I don't always agree with the winners, but guarantees that that winner will have an inflated salary the following year. Why? When it's a popularity contest and not really about talent. (Sorry but I think Joaquin Phoenix should have won the Oscar for Walk the Line...not the idiot from Capote...What a stupid movie! But the "industry" has issues with Phoenix, so no, they can't give him a major award like that...) I'll watch the films and that's about it. The glitz and glamour of "celebrity" life just makes me sick...Especially when they start complaining about lack of privacy...