The 98th are here.
Year after year, Hollywood’s biggest stars gather at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles to acknowledge the best in their industry for their work that year.
While many actors consider winning an Oscar the highest honor of their career, others have said it isn’t something they are particularly interested in achieving.
Fox News contributor Raymond Arroyo, who hosts “Arroyo Grande with Raymond Arroyo,” agrees with those who say winning an award no longer boosts your relevancy, blaming certain decisions made by the Academy.
“Over the years due to streaming and terrible choices made by the Academy, the Oscars and its influence have waned,” Arroyo explained. Time was an Oscar guaranteed you work forever. Thats no longer the case, just ask Mira Sorvino and Cuba Gooding Jr! And they won them 20+ years ago. The Oscar just doesnt have the power even within the industry that it once had.”
Overall, when it comes to the future of the awards show, Arroyo says: “Young people dont care. The Oscars mean nothing to them.
“Like the Grammys and the Emmys, when the product itself no longer touches the lives of a wide audience, the adjacent awards become meaningless,'” he said.Â
Here is a look back at what some stars have said about the Oscars.
In a recent interview on the “Out of Order” podcast, actor Dennis Quaid looked back at his decades-long career in Hollywood.
During the conversation, Quaid discussed some of his iconic movies from the early 2000s, with the podcast host praising him for continuing to be a big movie star with many films in the works for this year. When it comes to how he feels making movies today, Quaid said he is “enjoying it a lot even more than I did back then,”Â
“Because I’m just doing the stuff that Iâ¦I’m not trying to get anywhere,” he explained. “I’m not trying to push, you know, get an Oscar because who cares about that? Says the guy who never won an Oscar. I’m not trying to be anything. I’m just doing the stuff that I love to do, and I really enjoy it.
Despite “not trying to get anywhere,” Quaid starred in “The Substance,” one of the biggest movies of 2024, alongside Margaret Qualley and Demi Moore, who received an Academy Award nomination for her work in the film.
When the nominations for the 2026 Academy Awards were announced in January, many fans were enraged that Amanda Seyfried was not nominated for her leading role in “The Testaments of Anne Lee,” However, in an interview with The New Yorker conducted before nominations were announced, Seyfried said winning one “isn’t necessary.”
“Do you remember who won in the past 10 years? It’s not the win that’s important. It’s the nomination. It does thrust you forward. That’s a fact. Now, do I need one in a week or two or whenever? No, of course, I don’t,” she said. Would it be great? Of course it would, for every reason…but it isn’t necessary.”
Arroyo agrees with Seyfried, admitting “the term Academy Award winner still has some cultural resonance,” but it is not the same as in the past.
“It no longer has the mystique or power that it once had,” he told Fox News Digital. “Hollywood insiders still fight over the golden statue, but its more of a status symbol within the industry than outside of it. Heres a question: what movie won best picture this year and last year? Ill bet you dont know. Neither do most people.”
Seyfried previously received a nomination in 2021 for her supporting role in “Mank” and argued that “longevity in an actor’s career is designed,” and has more to do with the roles they choose than the awards they have won.
She explained that in her eyes she has proven hersel
