The first link is the NY Post Page Six article (celebrity gossip column) from 2008
Response on Page Six, from Fraser's reps, promising to get the VFX artists paid
Dave Rand's original tweet
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Brendan Fraser and Ke Huy Quan
Encino Man (1992) dir. Les Mayfield
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✨ OSCAR WINNING ACTORS BRENDAN FRASER AND KE HUY QUAN ✨
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Best Leading Actress
Michelle Yeoh (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)
Best Leading Actor
Brendan Fraser (“The Whale”)
Best Supporting Actress
Jamie Lee Curtis (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)
Best Supporting Actor
Ke Huy Quan (“Everything Everywhere All at Once”)
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whenever you find yourself baffled, even enraged, by who the Academy rewards and who they don't - i find remembering that the Academy Awards were created by Hollywood mogul Louis B Mayer with the specific purpose of preventing mass unionisation helps. Mayer figured if Hollywood workers were made to think of themselves as artists rather than labourers they'd be less inclined to unionise. Of the awards, Mayer famously said in the late 1920s, "if I give them cups and awards, they'd kill themselves to produce what I wanted." Also by awarding and inviting few, Mayer and the Academy pushed individualist aspirations and exceptionalism over collectivism. Considering the upcoming Writers Guild strike over the exploitation streaming has created that Hollywood producers are trying to suppress (which is why a lot of shows are being cancelled btw because they don't want to pay writers), this anti-union legacy is still clearly alive and well. The majority of these Hollywood award shows were not created to actually award artistic merit, but to create an illusion of artistic meritocracy that would stifle solidarity among workers. So, whenever you find yourself baffled, even enraged, by who the Academy rewards and who they don't, remember that's not what they're really for.
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