Academy Quote by Steve Martin

The awards thing is tricky to understand because its about momentum and a general opinion on whats been great. I dont know if you…

— Emily Blunt

Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I…

— Javier Bardem

The Academy Awards were basically created by the industry to promote pictures. They weren't really to acknowledge the performances. Then it became sort of…

— James Cromwell

The whole awards thing is great. Why? Because the Golden Globes, the Academy Awards, they put a focus on the industry, and that focus…

— Liam Neeson

Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough…

— Christopher Judge

Awards movies are normally sort of... life-affirming and noble. It's probably too much of an intellectual conceit and, you know, people don't like it…

— David Fincher

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

— Dustin Hoffman

It's better to be nominated for awards than not to be nominated for them, but of course to some degree such awards [National Book…

— Charles Baxter

It's not awards per se that bother me; it's entirely to do with the impetus they give for marketing a film.

— John Hillcoat

I don't do movies for the awards. The awards are made for the films. The films are not made for the awards.

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you…

— Alejandro Amenabar

Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys are much…

— Steve Martin