{"id":406080,"date":"2010-03-08T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.opensecrets.org,2010:\/news\/\/8.1408"},"modified":"2010-03-11T14:25:26","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T19:25:26","slug":"political-cash-largess-doesnt-equate-success-in-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/406080","title":{"rendered":"Political Cash Largess Doesn’t Equate Success in Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"oscarstatueplain.jpg\"<\/a>Last week, the Center for Responsive Politics<\/a> announced the winners of the money-in-politics Oscars<\/a>, which named the top political donors from a list of Oscar nominees in the categories of best lead actor, best lead actress, best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best director and best picture.
 
The cash totaled at more than $400,000 with the vast majority going to Democratic candidates and organizations.
 
Now, after a night of accolades and touching thank-you speeches, the real question: Does a movie star’s political contributions correlate with them winning an Oscar?
 
Hopefully, you didn’t place your Oscar bets based on our report, because the answer is a resounding, “not really.”<\/p>\n

The only time that the recipient of the Center for Responsive Politics’ award was the same as recipient of the real Oscar was in the category of best lead actor. The winner of both, Jeff Bridges, has donated about $64,800 to various Democratic candidates, political parties and political action committees.
 
In the category of best supporting actor, the money-in-politics Oscar went to Matt Damon. The winner of the real Oscar was Christoph Waltz. He has not donated to a federal-level political cause during the past two decades.
 
In the category of best supporting actress, the money-in-politics Oscar went to Maggie Gyllenhaal. The winner of the real Oscar was Mo’Nique. She has not donated to a political cause in the past two decades. <\/p>\n

In the category of best leading actress, there was no money-in-politics Oscar given.
The winner of the real Oscar was Sandra Bullock. She, too, has not donated to a political cause in the past two decades. <\/p>\n

In the category of best director, the money-in-politics Oscar went to James Cameron. The winner of the real Oscar was Kathryn Bigelow, Cameron’s ex-wife. Bigelow gave $550 to federal political interests, split between a Democratic candidate and the Democratic National Committee<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In the category of best picture, the money-in-politics Oscar went to Lawrence Bender. The winner of the real Oscar was Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier and Greg Shapiro for “The Hurt Locker.” Bigelow was the only one of the four to make a political donation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, the Center for Responsive Politics announced the winners of the money-in-politics Oscars, which named the top political donors from a list of Oscar nominees in the categories of best lead actor, best lead actress, best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best director and best picture. The cash totaled at more than $400,000 with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4951,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4951"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}