What is *Oscar 2021?

They are only 2 months away!!!!

Well, 2 months and 10 days.

That makes today the equivalent of the day after Thanksgiving 2019 before last year's Oscar show. Happy holiday!

That said, it is time for me to stop mocking the *Oscars and to accept that they are not only happening, but that there is joy to be gained from the experience. It shouldn't be happening, but how many weddings have you been to where you knew the same was true... and you still spent as much as you would have on the gift because who wants to be the grinch at a wedding?

After all the talk and the surprisingly early start for The King of The Apps, things are playing out pretty much as expected. They threw eight movies into the ring and still standing are Mank, The Trial of the Chicago 7, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, any one of them a possible Best Picture winner. And expect nods for Da 5 Bloods, Pieces of a Woman, and even the "thought that one was dead" Hillbilly Elegy. They may not be able to deliver a nom for Sophia Lo…