While compulsively watching The Sopranos on HBO 20 years ago, I never imagined that the network itself soon would become corporate bounty. As such it was conquered successively by AT&T, Discovery, Warners and Paramount+.
The dealmaking agonies of HBO reflect a Hollywood agenda committed more to regime change than to chasing awards. Indeed, for many studio employees the familiar rituals of Oscar week provide a comforting distraction, or at least a welcome yawn.
Data on industry employment is hard to pinpoint, but more denizens of film and TV would seem to be adrift at this moment than at any time in memory. They thus can afford the time between job searches to fill out Oscar ballots and even guarantee that they’ve actually seen the movies for which they’d voted.
Guarantees may be rare in Hollywood, but the Motion Picture Academy persistently asked its 10,000 members worldwide to
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