Jackie Chan. Apologies, Academy, yet this was not a fitting decision

By Michael Russnow

"Consider whizzes, for example, Warren Beatty, Robert Redford, Debbie Reynolds, Annette Bening, Harrison Ford, Albert Finney, Kim Novak, Doris Day, Samuel L. Jackson, Glenn Close, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp, only a portion of the entertainers officially past fifty who have never won an acting Oscar, nor have they got the privileged honor, which has dependably been a route for the Academy to perceive these oversights, notwithstanding their having additionally showed up in any number of essential motion pictures.

I'm not certain why the Academy pioneers felt moved to grant Chan with this honor, however assuming the best about them, maybe they were attracting thoughtfulness regarding a class of the silver screen world that has well known support and engrosses a substantial group of onlookers, despite the nonappearance of basic praise."

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