The Daily Beast features this article by Nicole LaPorte on the sexism facing director Kathryn Bigelow in the Oscar race. There are some interesting points to the piece, mostly covering double standards of expectations about appearance and behavior that are broader and deeper than the Academy Awards. But the gem of the article comes from a quote attributed to Tom O’Neil, who writes the Gold Derby blog for The Los Angeles Times:
“The beauty pageant is a big part of the Oscars. To be very cruel about this, Oscar voters are old guys who tend to vote for women they want to sleep with.”