It is time for award shows to stop pitting artists against each other and to start celebrating the best that everyone has to offer....

At this year’s Critics Choice Awards, Cate Blanchette recognized that winning an award for best actress was “extremely arbitrary considering how many extraordinary performances there have been”. She suggested changing the “whole F-ing structure”....

The pandemic hit the entertainment award shows hard, but the decline of traditional live ceremonies was already on the downward slope....

In Jacob Shamsian’s 2018 article published in the Insider "22 people and movies that completely don’t deserve their Oscar wins – sorry" I have found a soul mate....

Charlize Theron - SASS Awards as of August 2020 Selecting best performances is hard when they do not always coincide with great (or even good movies). Theron is an actress who continues to put out amazing performances and has increasingly good reach across genres....

Other award shows are getting muddled....

Another Reason we need SASS Awards SASS Awards wants to recognize all good work, recognize people doing their best without comparison to someone else work, and allow all artists to be recognized regardless of their gender, popularity, or for any other reason....

Robert Downey Jr. - Sass Awards Some actor/actress' are easy to select Sass Awards for because either they have clear winners or they don't have a very large filmography so it is easy to remember or go back and watch the potential winners. Robert Downey Jr. however has neither of these....

Is that the best you can do? Why, yes…yes it is. Competition can be a hard concept to live with. It pushes us to do our best to “win”, but can also create an emotional crash when we “lose”. Yes, losing can be a good lesson and create motivation, but social media, reality TV, and other media formats have made failure an excuse to laugh at someone instead of a learning experience. And no one likes to be laughed AT....