Maybe Rebecca Gayheart Can Host The Oscars

Don’t look now, ladies and gentlemen, but Hollywood is looking to push another agenda with its award shows. A few years ago, the Oscars celebrated African-American actors, and awarded the Best Actor and Actress awards to Denzel Washington and Halle Berry respectively. The winners were puzzling, since Washington’s Training Day was not nominated for any other categories, nor was Berry’s Monster’s Ball. (For the record, I loved Washington in Training Day, but Berry did little more than boink Billy Bob Thornton in Monster’s Ball – although that in itself deserves an Oscar.)

This year, alternative lifestyles appear to be the cause of the day. Brokeback Mountain, Peakah’s favorite film about gay cowboys, and Trans-America, where Felicity Huffman plays a trans-gender character, took home most of the prizes at this year’s Golden Globes. It is widely speculated that these films will also bring home Oscars this year.

Here’s my problem with these trends: the Academy Awards should be giving out Oscars based solely on performance, not some liberal agenda. To date, Trans-America has made less than one million dollars at the box office. Box office does not translate into Oscar gold, but how can Huffman be considered for Best Actress if no one has seen the film? The same holds true for Brokeback Mountain. While it has bigger box office returns than Trans-America, the film has done poorly considering its wide release.

If the critics are doling out awards for these films because they truly believe they are the best Hollywood has put forth this year, that’s fine. However, I think that by awarding Trans-America and Brokeback Mountain - despite their less than stellar box office - in the same year is one hell of a coincidence.

It just screams “liberal agenda” to me.