During the week before the 2017 Academy Awards telecast , NBC talk show host Seth Meyers ran a parody trailer for '' Oscar Bait '' , " a film that is shamelessly timed for awards season " on his show . It featured clips of Meyers and others involved with his show as actors crying frequently , with scenes featuring racial tension and latent homosexuality along with " pretentiously artistic shots of a man 's hand grazing wheat " . Intertitles quoted purported reviews from real publications , such as " If you like films where a character is forced to overcome a rare disease , then this , my friends , is your film " and comparing the parody film favorably with '' The King 's Speech ''
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