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"I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost"

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Bardem punctures the Oscars myth with the simplest weapon: time zones. By anchoring his indifference in the mundane fact of living in Spain, he quietly reframes Hollywood’s biggest self-congratulation as just another foreign broadcast - a “Sunday night” program that runs “very late,” like a talk show you half-remember exists. The line isn’t a manifesto against awards so much as a shrug that lands as critique: if the ceremony’s climax happens while much of the world is asleep, how global can its importance really be?

The subtext is a careful distancing from the industry machine that both rewards and consumes actors. Bardem has been inside that machine - nominated, celebrated, scrutinized - so the casual tone reads as protective rather than performative. “You don’t watch” isn’t just a personal habit; it’s a small refusal of the ritual. He’s describing a relationship to fame where the emotional stakes are deliberately lowered. Winning becomes information, not an event you organize your life around.

There’s also a sly demotion of the Oscars to what they increasingly are in the streaming era: content that gets summarized. The real product isn’t the show, it’s the Monday-morning narrative - who “won or lost,” who’s trending, who’s being retroactively anointed. Bardem’s Spain detail makes the point without saying it outright: the Oscars claim cultural centrality, but for many people they function as a headline, not a holiday.

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Bardem, Javier. (2026, January 15). I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-live-in-spain-oscars-are-something-that-are-on-164878/

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Bardem, Javier. "I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-live-in-spain-oscars-are-something-that-are-on-164878/.

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"I live in Spain. Oscars are something that are on TV Sunday night. Basically, very late at night. You don't watch, you just read the news after who won or who lost." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-live-in-spain-oscars-are-something-that-are-on-164878/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Javier Bardem (born March 1, 1969) is a Actor from Spain.

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