What Are All Those Awards?

The Oscars, and, then the Grammys (no -ies?), the Golden Globes, People's Choice? What are all these awards. Too many for me to keep track of.

The Feb.22nd Chicago Tribune had an article "Meet Oscar and his closest friends" by Chad Yoder and Jonathan Berlin which helped sort the whole mess out for me. They have it broken down into Award Show, Media Awarded, Years Running, Television Viewers, Location, How Winners Chosen, and Prestige-O-Meter and the Award itself.

OSCARS-- movies, 81, 32 million(2008), 6,000 members Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, If you get one, you're somebody. If you don't have one, you're figuring out how to get it.-- 13 and half inches and made in Chicago.

GRAMMYS-- Music and Recording Arts, 51, 19 million (2009), 20,000 members of Recording Academy, Showmore about the performances than awards.-- made of custom alloy, "gramium."

GOLDEN GLOBES-- Movies, TV, 66, 14.9 million (2009), 90 members of Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Like the Oscar's little brother.--more detailed globe this year.

EMMYS (What, no -ies), TV, 60, 12.3 million (2008), 13,000 members Academy of television Arts & Sciences, Definitely television's top awards-- woman holding an atom.

Screen Actors Guild-- Movies and TV, 15, 5.3 million (2009), two panels of SAG members, third brother competing for attention-- handmade of solid bronze. Anatomically correct male.

PEOPLE'S CHOICE-- Movies, TV, music, and internet videos-- 35, 9.4 million (2009), the public, The people have spoken, is anybody listening-- most stars have one by now.

I look at it as a way the networks can get by without using their own programming if they get to show it. It is interesting to see the folks getting the awards. Some are pretty lame. The best thing ever was Jethro Tull getting the first Heavy Metal Grammy. Jethro Tull, Heavy Metal? Come on. Even Ian Anderson had to hold back his smile.

So, That's How It Goes. --RoadDog