The still ever increasing awards and award shows
As the new award show season is beginning, who am I trying to kid the season never ends just the year of the award changes, I have decided to comment upon them. I know that this has been done before but I am going to touch on the subject once again.
First let us go over the award shows that were around when I was a child back when there were only 52, one for each week, instead of the 364+ that seem to be now.
For simplicity sake I am going to list them in catagories.
Movies:
THE ACADEMY AWARDS - The creme-de-la-creme of movie awards it has been around the longest and even in the plathera of new awards still manages to maintain it's prestige.
THE GOLDEN GLOBES - This I think was the first cross award show, meaning it gives awards for Film and Television and in fact I think the Golden Globes' breakdown in catagories make more sense then the Oscars. Best Drama Film, Best Comedy/Musical film, instead of just Best Film.
Music:
THE GRAMMY'S - The Oscar of the music industry.
Television:
THE EMMY - The Oscar for television.
Theatre:
THE TONY - The Oscar for musicals and plays.
This was something you could deal with, it was almost something to get excited about for fans and celebrities.
Now we have the following along with the above:
THE MTV MOVIE AWARD - A large "golden" popcorn tub, this is an excuse for stars to come out and look like normal people, meaning instead of having to wear tuxes and beautiful expensive gowns that they have been given for free they can show up in, or out of as the case may be, really expensive everyday street clothes. and showing more bling then would be needed to feed a third world country for several months.
THE DAYTIME EMMYS - Because where else can you nominate someone 14 times in a row and not give award to them?
THE ESSENCE AWARD - an award show exclusively set to award excelent black men and women in a varity of endeavors, film, music, television, sports.
THE EBONY AWARD - the same as the Essence Award.
THE SOUL TRAIN AWARD - See above two.
MTV MUSIC VIDEO AWARD - An award for the best made Music Video, which for some reason goes to the artist of the video and not to the director or the person who came up with it, so basically they are awarding the song, so why not just call in the MTV MUSIC AWARD or MTV SONG AWARD.
THE SAG AWARD - This is an award that goes to actors from other actors in the Screen Actor Guild of America, In a way I kind of respect this as it is peers giving other peers an award.
THE VH1 FASHION AWARD - goes to fashion designers, fashion designers are people too.
THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE - This is an award show that leaves the voting entirely up to the general public, which is never a good idea. That is how Seinfeld won for best show on television a year after it left the air, and Mel Gibson won for best actor when he hadn't been in anything in over a year.
THE COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS - Because country music thought wait let's give ourselves an award that yankee's can't win.
THE ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS - no folks this is actually different from the CMAs.
THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS - Dick Clark's contribution to the awards world.
THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS - To give awards to the best of the billboard music world, this is different from the grammy's how?
THE RADIO MUSIC AWARDS - An award for the music that plays the most on the radio, because we really want to hear one more rendition of Snoop Dogg's "Drop it like it's Hot".
There are also various sports award shows that you can catch on ESPN 2 and FSNW and any of the other many sports channels. The ones that I am waiting for are the:
AWARD SHOW AWARDS - For the best award show of the year.
THE BEST TUESDAY - The award goes to the best Tuesday that happened all year.
THE BEST/WORST STREET IN AMERICA AWARD - the voters vote for which street is in the best repair and which street is in the worst repair.
C'mon people how many other ways can we pat the rich and famous on the back for being rich and famous?
First let us go over the award shows that were around when I was a child back when there were only 52, one for each week, instead of the 364+ that seem to be now.
For simplicity sake I am going to list them in catagories.
Movies:
THE ACADEMY AWARDS - The creme-de-la-creme of movie awards it has been around the longest and even in the plathera of new awards still manages to maintain it's prestige.
THE GOLDEN GLOBES - This I think was the first cross award show, meaning it gives awards for Film and Television and in fact I think the Golden Globes' breakdown in catagories make more sense then the Oscars. Best Drama Film, Best Comedy/Musical film, instead of just Best Film.
Music:
THE GRAMMY'S - The Oscar of the music industry.
Television:
THE EMMY - The Oscar for television.
Theatre:
THE TONY - The Oscar for musicals and plays.
This was something you could deal with, it was almost something to get excited about for fans and celebrities.
Now we have the following along with the above:
THE MTV MOVIE AWARD - A large "golden" popcorn tub, this is an excuse for stars to come out and look like normal people, meaning instead of having to wear tuxes and beautiful expensive gowns that they have been given for free they can show up in, or out of as the case may be, really expensive everyday street clothes. and showing more bling then would be needed to feed a third world country for several months.
THE DAYTIME EMMYS - Because where else can you nominate someone 14 times in a row and not give award to them?
THE ESSENCE AWARD - an award show exclusively set to award excelent black men and women in a varity of endeavors, film, music, television, sports.
THE EBONY AWARD - the same as the Essence Award.
THE SOUL TRAIN AWARD - See above two.
MTV MUSIC VIDEO AWARD - An award for the best made Music Video, which for some reason goes to the artist of the video and not to the director or the person who came up with it, so basically they are awarding the song, so why not just call in the MTV MUSIC AWARD or MTV SONG AWARD.
THE SAG AWARD - This is an award that goes to actors from other actors in the Screen Actor Guild of America, In a way I kind of respect this as it is peers giving other peers an award.
THE VH1 FASHION AWARD - goes to fashion designers, fashion designers are people too.
THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE - This is an award show that leaves the voting entirely up to the general public, which is never a good idea. That is how Seinfeld won for best show on television a year after it left the air, and Mel Gibson won for best actor when he hadn't been in anything in over a year.
THE COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS - Because country music thought wait let's give ourselves an award that yankee's can't win.
THE ACADEMY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS - no folks this is actually different from the CMAs.
THE AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS - Dick Clark's contribution to the awards world.
THE BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS - To give awards to the best of the billboard music world, this is different from the grammy's how?
THE RADIO MUSIC AWARDS - An award for the music that plays the most on the radio, because we really want to hear one more rendition of Snoop Dogg's "Drop it like it's Hot".
There are also various sports award shows that you can catch on ESPN 2 and FSNW and any of the other many sports channels. The ones that I am waiting for are the:
AWARD SHOW AWARDS - For the best award show of the year.
THE BEST TUESDAY - The award goes to the best Tuesday that happened all year.
THE BEST/WORST STREET IN AMERICA AWARD - the voters vote for which street is in the best repair and which street is in the worst repair.
C'mon people how many other ways can we pat the rich and famous on the back for being rich and famous?
posted by A Concerned Citizen at 9:12 AM
5 Comments:
My new goal in life is to one one of each. ALL of 'em. Including Essence, Ebony and Soul Train.
to win those three I think you may have to change your skin colour or be Justin Timberlake. No joke he managed to get nominated for a soul train award and I think one other "black" award for his album
You forgot:
THE KEY ART AWARDS - The Oscar of the movie advertising industry. Been around much longer than a lot of these other wannabes.
Damn. That's a big list of awards. With that many out there, you think Yahoo Serious could win at least something!
What about The Aesthetics in HTML Based Filmography awards.
Winner: Yahoo Serious: Tidiest IMDB.com page in the Director/Writer/Actor/Producer/Miscellaneous Crew/Stunts Category.
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