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In Vietnam, the Academy Awards is known as the Oscars. It’s an important event here because people like American movies. While the Vietnamese film industry lacks a movie that is worth watching, Vietnamese people won’t have to complain much, because they can enjoy American movies at the cinema for as cheap as $1.5-3.5.
Academy Awards is the topic for every February, when the Tet holidays are over. Unlike Grammy Awards which nominations are not new, most of the movies nominated by AMPAS haven’t reached the Vietnamese audience yet. That’s why Vietnamese people will do anything, pay any price (this is not quite true), resort to any form (that means they download them in the office), just to watch those movies before the Oscars night. They will recommend and share those movies to others who haven’t watched them yet, and win the race.
Unlike Westerners, Vietnamese people don’t throw any Oscar party where people get involve in an Oscar pool. Somehow, they stick to their imaginative winner list, and if any in this list didn’t win, they would blame the Academy for bad judgment.
Every year, the awards history is mentioned again on newspapers. How many Vietnamese movies have been nominated for Best Foreign Language Film? Ask them, and they’ll be very embarrassed. Don’t blame Vietnamese people for their ignorance with Vietnamese movies, they are not xenophiles, they are learning English through American movies.
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