Article: Is This the Oscar Mafia? Or just a very nice nursing home with powerful friends? NEWSWEEK investigates.

Byline: Sean Smith

Not to point fingers, but it's Kevin Spacey's fault. Four years ago, when he accepted the Screen Actors Guild award for his performance in "American Beauty," Spacey dedicated the trophy to the residents at the Motion Picture & Television Fund retirement home, saying, "Tonight, they are not forgotten." This remark would itself have been forgotten if he hadn't won the Oscar weeks later. Suddenly, stories started appearing in the press that the old-folks facility in Woodland Hills, Calif.--commonly called the Home--was teeming with Academy voters, and that Spacey had thanked them simply to score a statuette. Because most studios screen movies at ...

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