Published 15:53 IST, September 5th 2020

Bradley Cooper calls awards season 'meaningless'; says filmmaking is more about 'passion'

Bradley Cooper recently shared his take about awards' season and called it 'meaningless'. According to Cooper, awards' season is 'devoid of artistic creation'

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Hollywood actor-director Bradley Cooper recently put forth his take on awards season and expressed his diregard towards m. In an interaction with Anthony Ramos for  American magazine 'Interview', two-time Grammy Award-winning artist voiced his opinion about awards and called m 'meaningless'. According to Cooper, filmmaking is more about 'passion' than 'accolades'. 

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Bradley Cooper calls awards' season a 'real test'

Both Bradley Cooper and Anthony Ramos, who starred in  A Star is Born, discussed ir thoughts on awards' season. For unversed, Cooper has won Grammy Award twice, a BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award to name a few. However, 45-year-old has t won an Academy Award till date, despite being minated eight times.

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During his interaction with Burnt actor, Ramos expressed his opinion about award's season and brought to everyone's attention that singling out actors during awards' season can create a sense of selfishness. Giving more context to his statement, 28-year-old remarked that a film is a representation of a story that a team of 150-200 people tell toger, collectively. 

Agreeing to his co-star's statement, Bradley called it a 'real test'. He feels that awards' season is set up to 'foster that mentality', and added saying it is difficult to work through it. According to Limitless actor, awards' season is 'devoid of artistic creation'. He furr stressed that filmmaking should be more about passion, than winning accolades. 

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Elaborating more about same, Hollywood A-lister said an award is t reason one sacrifices everything to create art. He continued, yet one spends a lot of time to be a part of it and took a sly dig at awards' season as he said, only if one's lucky eugh to be a part of it. Furrmore, actor-director also called awards' season a 'great thing' because it makes one face ir 'ego, vanity and insecurity'. However, he concluded saying it is 'utterly meaningless'.

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Meanwhile, on work front, Bradley Cooper has reportedly been busy with several upcoming projects in his kitty. His highly-anticipated directorial venture titled Bernstein, which is a biopic of Leonard Bernstein is said to be finally releasing next year after it was anunced in 2018. 

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15:53 IST, September 5th 2020