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"Welcome to the Academy Awards. Or as it's known in my house, Passover."
—Bob Hope, hosting the 1968 Oscars
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"Who can forget movies like Raging Bull, E.T., and Citizen Kane? The Oscars, that's who! They all lost!"
—Jay Shermam, The Critic
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"No one votes for Wicked!"
—Forbidden Broadway, to the tune of "No One Mourns The Wicked"
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"1989 Grammy award LOSERS"
—The packaging of some pressings of ...And Justice for All
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"I lost faith in the Oscars the first year I was a movie critic — the year that Bonnie and Clyde didn't win."
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"Remember Will Smith won the first Grammy?[1] —Pusha-T, "Infrared"
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- ↑ DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince were the first hip hop act to win a Grammy Award, for "Parents Don't Understand"
- ↑ "Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)" by Jay-Z, from Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life, winner of the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, sampled "It's The Hard Knock Life" from the 1982 film adaptation of Annie.