The summer is over and it is officially Good Movie Season! Awards Season overlaps with Good Movie Season, but is not the same. While the Good Movie Season starts in early September and ends in early January, the Awards Season starts in late November and ends in March. This is also not to be confused with the Awards Anticipation Season, which starts when the Venice Film Festival does (late August) and ends on Oscar night.
For me, the awards themselves are somewhat pointless. Whether or not Children of Men won the Oscar for its editing (it didn't) won't affect its place in history. The awards will help your favorite films get seen by more people, which is nice and means the director and writers will work again, but little else. I don't love the Awards Season because I think it vindicates my taste, as I am inevitably disappointed by something (the aforementioned Children of Men slights).
I love the Awards Anticipation Season because I hate sports. But there is a place for something like sports in everyone's heart – the obsession, anticipation, joy, and heartbreak of learning everything and trying to make predictions about something over which you have absolutely no control. For some people it is Star Wars or soap operas or gambling or even sports themselves. For me, I guess, it is the Academy Awards. I choose it, because it is the only sport like activity that also involves my favorite thing – movies.
I love movies because I find so many things about the world fascinating and they can incorporate most of them. They can take my to Jane Austen's England even though I can never go there myself. They can show me the inner workings of the government, even though I will never work there myself. And they can show me a thousand heartbreaks and love stories that would be too much for one person to experience themselves.
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