Awards Shows to Conservative Artists: Go Away Now!

Matt Walsh knew his 2024 smash “Am I Racist?” had no chance of walking off with a Best Documentary Oscar.

Sure, the film made more money than any documentary in the past decade, and the film’s subversive takedown of DEI madness rocked the zeitgeist.

Both he and the film leaned unabashedly to the Right, effectively crushing any chances of Oscar glory.

Walsh promoted its Oscar chances all the same last year, in part to make a point. Conservative-leaning art is kept out of awards consideration.

There’s no official rules or bylines saying as much. It’s simply irrefutable. And we’re getting more proof of just that now.

The Golden Globes announced a new category this year – Best Podcast. The medium features many right-leaning superstars like Ben Shapiro and Megyn Kelly, along with rebel voices that refute progressive narratives.

Think Joe Rogan and Andrew Schulz, among others.

Yet none of those names caught the voters’ attention. Instead, left-leaning shows by Mel Robbins and Amy Schumer got honored.

Again, no surprise there.

We’re also in the middle of movie awards season, where one film appears ready to dominate all the way through Oscar night.

“One Battle After Another.”

Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s film glorifies political violence, shames straight white males, embraces open border policies and promotes anti-government radicals.

It’s as progressive as an MS NOW “winter season” party.

Once again, political winds are hammering awards season, promoting select points of view and ensuring the industry’s groupthink stays intact.

Here’s how the system works:

If a movie producer has a project in mind that speaks to Heartland USA, he or she knows it has virtually no chance at awards season glory. So, in many cases, said producer moves on to other topics. Why lose out on a Best Picture nomination before anyone cries, “action!”

Some conservatives shrug their shoulders at this cultural gatekeeping.

We don’t need Oscars. Who watches awards shows, anyway?

Author and podcaster Andrew Klavan disagrees.

He noted how Kelly brushed off the fact that her groundbreaking podcast didn’t get a Golden Globe nomination.

“No,” Klavan said on his Daily Wire podcast. “Awards are part of the way we promote the arts … and none of those [awards shows] are available to conservatives, but the opposite is true. They want to destroy us.”

The latter point may be hyperbolic, but it’s undoubtedly correct that the modern Left will protect its stranglehold on pop culture at all costs. If that means preventing Red State-friendly fare from getting the promotional push awards season provides, so be it.

And, until conservatives rally their resources and create their own awards shows of consequence, that will remain the case.