Is Getting An Oscar Really Worth All The Expense And Trouble It Takes?

“How does all the money that goes into these campaigns – estimates run at more than $100 million for the season – measure against the revenue they supposedly generate?” The Times‘s new Carpetbagger blogger “put the question to studio heads, directors, actors and producers, some of whom agreed to chat on the record, others off (several confiding that awards season was something they dreaded and loathed).”