Movie star EDWARD NORTON is calling for filmmakers and actors to stop attending movie awards or risk turning the Oscars into just another self-congratulatory ceremony for Hollywood.
The actor is appalled with the amount of ceremonies that stack up between now and March (07) and he finds it unnecessary for his peers to attend so many.
He says, "It's just a bloodbath. What has evolved in terms of this orgy of self-congratulation at the end of the year, everybody's willingness to schlep out for every single little... It's like half the best filmmakers in the world are showing up for the `Buster Brown Film Awards' and it's gotta stop.
"We've debased the integrity and the specialness of the Academy Awards, which is the true compliment within the industry among peers.
"The world has got so many problems in it, the last thing that the world needs to see is the same group of people congratulating themselves over and over again for the same totally disposable pieces of work."