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Behold, the 2023 Awards Season Awards!

Puck’s second annual, totally subjective and partially grievance-based salute to the oddities and embarrassments of Hollywood’s interminable Oscar season.

Jimmy Kimmel will host his third Oscars this Sunday.
Jimmy Kimmel will host his third Oscars this Sunday. Photo: Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images
Matthew Belloni
March 10, 2023

If it seems like the Oscar race has lasted a year, it kinda has. We’ve been talking about this year’s show pretty much since The Slap and its chaotic aftermath last March, making this season truly feel like a year-long slog. Last year I revived a tradition that I had at Hollywood Reporter of bestowing “awards season awards” honoring the highs and (mostly) lows of the death march to the Oscars.