Award Shows Were Invented to Bust Unions

Podcast: The Actor’s Guide to the End of the World · actorsguidepodcast

Opublikowano: 2026-09-12

Welcome to the Actors Guide to the End of the World Podcast, Episode 97! It's Emmy's are here, and we go back into Hollywood history for a fun fact - In the 1920s, MGM's Louis B. Mayer had a plan: distract Hollywood's talent with medals and trophies so they'd never organize. "The best way to handle moviemakers was to hang medals all over them," he said — and just like that, the Academy Awards were born, not to celebrate artists, but to keep them from unionizing. It worked... until it didn't, and the fallout led directly to the founding of...