The author does not think highly of awards. In the beginning of the article, he seems to be skeptical about awards because of his past experience. The author finds fault in the awards he mentioned and explains his reasons for disliking them explicitly. As the article proceeds, the author delves into the human mentality of prize, and despite knowing how absurd the process of choosing the recipient for the award is, those people who criticize the final outcome of the award are those that really care about it.
The author is strongly against the process of choosing the awards, and hopes that the criterion of choosing the winner should be fair but he does not elaborate further on how this may go about. While the author may seem appalled and irate by the way the awards are given, he is the very person he described as “those most convinced that, sat the Oscars do a horrible job of rating films are the very people who cling to their emotional investment in the outcome.”
You have done an excellent job of spotting the major major contradiction at the heart of the article! Although ostensibly so dismissive of the whole award culture, Chait is participating in it by writing about it, and speculating about its perennial hold on the public imagination
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