the oscars completely fucked up transit in los angeles by having the ceremony at fucking UNION STATION... it’s been really really bad and has added to the city’s criminalization and displacement of houseless folks in a big way, in addition to being a general nuisance for the thousands of working class people who live and work in the area. closing key streets downtown and the city’s MAIN transportation hub for days for a party for celebrities in a year where there were barely any movies made to begin with. and the thing is all the celebrities will see the poverty around them on their way in from their limos and range rovers and they won’t say or do shit <3
the fact that nomadland, which is practically about homelessness, just won best picture and not a word was said about any of this by ANYONE...
so I haven't cared, like, at all, about the oscars this year. I happened to catch the last few minutes, and when they said it was at Union Station, I assumed it was a theater called Union Station because it was near Union Station. I didn't think it was actually. Union Station. Because, what the fuck.