Was this the bumpiest awards season in Oscars history? While it will forever be eclipsed by the total chaos of EnvelopeGate, this year was no stroll in the park, with the Academy kicking things off with a gaffe — the stillborn introduction of a "popular film" prize — and proceeding to step on a series of garden rakes from there. There was the Kevin Hart fiasco followed by the fruitless search for a replacement host. Then there were the campaign controversies plaguing everything from Green Book to Bohemian Rhapsody. And who could forget the backlash to cinematographers and other below-the-line categories being relegated to the off-air equivalent of a kiddie table? To commemorate some of the more dubious moments on this year's long road to Oscar, THR presents the eighth annual edition of the Awards Season Awards —besides the Razzies, the one award Hollywood could probably live without!
