{"id":555,"date":"2014-01-19T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/01\/19\/the-random-oscar-winner-generator-is-hilarious-necessary\/"},"modified":"2014-01-19T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T00:10:00","slug":"the-random-oscar-winner-generator-is-hilarious-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2014\/01\/19\/the-random-oscar-winner-generator-is-hilarious-necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Random Oscar Winner Generator is hilarious, necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We still have over a month to go before the Oscars, but we’re already excited! Questions about their authority aside, the Academy Awards are a fun time to celebrate nearly a century of great films.<\/p>\n

Let’s be serious though: there’s a lot of hot air involved too. With so many award contenders dealing with serious themes, sometimes it’s necessary to make fun of the whole endeavour.<\/p>\n

To this end, Time’s excellent Random Oscar Winner Generator<\/a> is a goldmine. Using keywords culled from IMDb for all previous Best Picture nominees, this web widget creates convincing-sounding descriptions for borderline-generic prestige movies. It’s a highly entertaining way to look at the types of films that Hollywood likes to reward, many of which apparently feature gay piano players and orphans from Manhattan.<\/p>\n

It’s all in good fun of course, but it’s also vaguely educational. Hopefully this takes some of the bluster out of the buildup to March 2nd.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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