Hello, welcome to your extra morning news show.

My name is Philip DeFranco, and today we're going to be talking

about something a little bit different than what we've been doing with these

morning videos. And I guess that's to say if you actually watch these

videos in the morning, your day will not start off by looking into the just utter horrible of the world

instead today we're going to be looking at some of the secrets politics and money inside of

Hollywood now right now if you're not aware we are officially in the middle of

award season it's the time of the year between November and February

where you have all of these film award events. In November you have the

People's Choice Awards, Hollywood Film Awards. December follows up with the

New York Film Critics Circle Awards and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards.

In January of the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

And then finally in February we get the Academy Awards.

And it is arguably the most prestigious of the award ceremonies.

Now the Academy Awards, or the the Oscars as they've been nicknamed

have been handed out for a pretty long time.

In fact, they actually go all the way back to 1929.

And the Oscars, they're voted on by the Academy of Motion Picture

Arts and Sciences, or just the Academy for short.

And as far as who is that, the Academy is an exclusive invite-only group of over 7,000 motion picture

professionals.

They range from actors to casting directors to producers to directors and more.

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