The Oscars: Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night!

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What the Academy Awards really are: a truth filter for moviegoers. By filtering the glut of movies being marketed to us daily with billions of dollars in advertising, the Oscars give us a look at the best of the best


Ever since I watched my first Oscars when I was 7, I always feel enchanted by the atmosphere and the world that seems so far away. I went to sleep wondering and dreaming if one day I can be there. On Sunday, the 2015 Academy Awards are being held. I can tell you who I think can win, or you can read all the other articles about predicting the winners. I'm here to discuss not about the nominees, the winners, the ones that snubbed, but about the ceremony itself. Why is it important and why we still need to recognize it.

Although you can place accusations, and some are very well founded, about the lack of diversity or the other problems that the Academy have, the ceremony is still the most prestigious and biggest night in Hollywood. In my house, it's a holiday. We are excited, we place our bets, and it's like watching the finale of the World Cup. Paul Thomas Anderson said that, "it's a drag when it's turned into sport." That's very true and in retrospect that is the core of the Awards. Showcasing the best of the best with one winner taking home the coveted prize. Everybody's blood and sweat just for a seat in a theater and if your lucky a statue. Do people really care? If studies show that 43 million eyes have been watching, that's a sign that it's a very important night 

It's not an important night for just the awards though. It's important to forge the things we love in the name of story and not sport. Although, the Academy is celebrating the best of the best, it's celebrating the one thing we must stay true to as filmmakers. We need to celebrate the essence of movies. The history, the romance, the conflicts, and the stories that take place when we are watching a movie. My family doesn't just see the Awards to watch who wins, it's to celebrate the one thing that we all love and that is movies 

Is the Academy Awards still important? The answer in my ballot will be yes. We must celebrate one of the most single important inventions and ideas that mankind has produced and has changed society in more ways that it can count. Here is an idea that is given to us, here is the emotions that we get out of it, here is the excitement, here is the wonder, here is the images that fly through our eyes, and here is looking at you, kid.