People complain about the Academy Awards every year, and sometimes, those complaints have merit. "Green Book" winning Best Picture is obviously insane, and with the utmost respect to Jamie Lee Curtis and her Oscar for "Everything Everywhere All at Once," that performance beating out Angela Bassett's astounding turn in "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" still feels wrong. The thing too few people are mad about when it comes to the Oscars, though, is category fraud.
What is category fraud, exactly? Basically, in the lead-up to the Oscar nominations every year, major studios throw their weight behind specific performers to try and win one of those coveted nominations, particularly in the lead and supporting acting categories — which, unlike the now-sprawling Best Picture category, is capped at

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