And the winner is...
The winner is the person who doesn't watch the award show :)
I was thinking about it earlier today when I saw a headline about some Oscar news, and realized that I really couldn't care less about award shows. It's basically a free promotion for the movie/music/musical/etc. industry that somehow gets all sorts of hype. I don't really care who wins best picture or best actor or best costumes. It doesn't seem to be helping get higher quality pictures into the cinema.
At one point I was mildly interested in the Oscars and pretty much ignored the other award shows. Since my patronage of the movie theaters has decreased along with my tolerance for what I deemd annoying "funny" bits in these things, I've really stopped paying any attention to it.
Maybe it's just a subconscious backlash against the fact it costs ten bucks to sit in a cramped chair with people talking around me to watch a movie these days! Sheesh!
<grumpy old man voice>In my day a movie cost 2.75 any time of the day and people didn't talk in the theaters. And we liked it</grumpy old man voice>