Speaking for myself, the main reason I don’t watch awards shows is OVEREXPOSURE (and NOT the wardrobe malfunction kind of exposure either)

When I was younger, and we are talking 20-25 years ago unfortunately, I used to look forward to the grammys and the oscars because it was a chance to see the stars and what they were wearing and who they were with yada yada yada. It was all about ‘access’ to a very elite club (hey, I was young and naive!) Back then most people were ‘star struck’ because stars were something mysterious and, yes, mystical.

Today thanks to millions of tabloid-type magazines, tabloid-type television (and the advent of cable and all that airtime to fill) and, of course, the internet and it’s instant gratification, we are saturated with everything about anyone even remotely deemed a ‘celebrity’. What they are wearing, saying, eating, dating, vacationing, blah blah blah.

Why should I sit through hours of boring blabbering nonsense when I can just instantly click on a link and see what they are wearing? Read what they said? Find out who won? I don’t have to watch the commercials, or sit through the bits of the show in which I have no interest.

I still love movies – not all of them, but I am a movie fan. I think that there was more of an incentive to watch the awards when the stars were less accessible and you didn’t know every little detail of their daily lives. I really don’t want to know all that. I appreciate them more when they are acting from a script rather than destroying my illusions by trying to speak out when they should be keeping their trap shut. Too much information isn’t a good thing. It’s just like the old adage, ‘Always leave them wanting more’.

It’s that simple…. at least for me. I don’t care about 99% of it, and what I do care about, I can get somewhere else without a huge investment of my time.