40 percent of the TVs in use last night were tuned to the awards? I don't believe it. All of these propaganda films will now go to premium cable (subsidized by your dollars) where they will reach the audience they didn't get in the theaters. There is no dichotomy between Hollywood and television anymore.
Here is an article on the funder of a lot of these films. In the age of mass media democracy is dominated by the media barons.