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[Saya]

What do you think? Is it too much?

Edit: Not all, but just the acting and directing nominees get the gift bag apparently.

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Oscar nominees in this year’s major categories will go home with a gift bag worth $200,000, featuring such essential items as a breast lift, sex toy and 15-day walking tour of Japan.

All acting and directing nominees will receive the luxury goodie bag from Los Angeles firm Distinctive Assets, which works with companies hoping to capitalise on the fame of Oscar hopefuls. The bag’s value this year is a record – last year it featured items worth a measly $125,000.

The most expensive inclusion for 2016 is a 10-day first class trip to Israel ($55,000), with that Japanese walking tour coming in at $45,000. The package also features a year’s worth of unlimited Audi car rentals, worth $45,000, and a lifetime supply of Lizora skin creams, worth $31,200. Female nominees will also receive a $250 “arouser” offering “gentle suction and stimulation”.

The Daily Beast

• A 10-day, first-class trip to Israel ($55,000)
• A year’s worth of unlimited Audi car rentals from Silvercar ($45,000)
• A 15-day walking tour of Japan ($45,000)
• 3 private training sessions with “celebrity wellness expert” and star of ABC’s My Diet Is Better Than Yours, Jay Cardiello ($1,400)
• Ultherapy—a laser skin-tightening procedure courtesy of 740 Park MD ($5,530)
• A Lifetime supply of skin creams from Lizora ($31,200)
• A Fit Club TV “Ultimate Fitness Package” in a private villa ($6,250)
• A Haze Dual V3 Vaporizer valued at $249.99 (At least Leonardo DiCaprio will be happy)

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The most bizarre item on the list clocks in at $1,900 and is something we are apparently referring to as a “Vampire Breast Lift.” What is a Vampire Breast Lift, you ask?

Featured by Cosmopolitan, the new secret “must have” in Hollywood is the Vampire Breast Lift procedure which uses blood-derived growth factors to revive rounder cleavage without implants. Women can now also soften implant scars and irregularities (and restore sensation). Using technology used by plastic surgeons for years to help correct post-mastectomy scarring and to heal wounds, the Vampire Breast Lift procedure uses a woman’s own blood to improve appearance. Designed for zero downtime by Charles Runels, MD - the same physician who invented the Vampire Facelift.

 

[lastplayed]

The most bizarre item on the list clocks in at $1,900 and is something we are apparently referring to as a “Vampire Breast Lift.”

I'll take two!

 

[Rembrandt]

Some of these gifts, though. What the fuck goes on in Hollywood for them to give their most distinguished recipients a sex toy and plastic surgery.

 

[DBT85]

Hey, you're all rich, popular

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white

people. What we really think you need is 200k worth of free stuff.

fml

 

[Jarmel]

I don't mind them getting presents but holy shit some of that sounds offensive as all hell to females.

A sex toy? Really?

 

[KINGofCRA5H]

 

[Herbs]

Hey, you're all rich, popular

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white

people. What we really think you need is 200k worth of free stuff.

fml

your shitty envy is just as gross.

 

[everyday math]

Vampire breasts.....can't trust anything now and days.

 

[besada]

http://youtu.be/KrQ3MdJuryk

 

[OrangeGrayBlue]

These gift bags are attempts to advertise products/services by a variety of companies. If you can get a celebrity to use your thing, it usually gives your business a boost. I often see people think that award ceremony attendees are just being showered with gifts for being fabulous, but that's not exactly the rationale behind it.

 

[Sectorseven]

I don't mind them getting presents but holy shit some of that sounds offensive as all hell to females.

A sex toy? Really?

It's a classy sex toy though.

 

[Hazmat]

Is this stuff transferable? I don't see many of the nominees taking advantage of most of this.

 

[SchrodingerC]

Just the acting and directing nominees get the gift bag.

Clearly.

Every other award is just filler for the Oscars.

A 10-day, first-class trip to Israel ($55,000)

I'm curious to why just Israel.

 

[kurahador]

lol...it's just a marketing ploy by the said products. Oscar need money I guess.

 

[Jigorath]

These gift bags are attempts to advertise products/services by a variety of companies. If you can get a celebrity to use your thing, it usually gives your business a boost. I often see people think that award ceremony attendees are just being showered with gifts for being fabulous, but that's not exactly the rationale behind it.

Yeah.

It's all just marketing.

 

[DBT85]

your shitty envy is just as gross.

I have no envy of them being rich or popular at all. You get what you earn

 

[Ozigizo]

Can't wait for the vampire tummy tuck next year.

 

[mr stroke]

These gift bags are attempts to advertise products/services by a variety of companies. If you can get a celebrity to use your thing, it usually gives your business a boost. I often see people think that award ceremony attendees are just being showered with gifts for being fabulous, but that's not exactly the rationale behind it.

Yep

 

[Zekes!]

Does it include a VirtuaDolls controller?

 

[chrisPjelly]

Can't wait for the vampire tummy tuck next year.

Vampire Cellulite Cream comes first though

Does it include a VirtuaDolls controller?

"Everyone look at the person to your left..."

 

[Lynd7]

Crew and other technical roles miss out :S

Ridiculous anyway, why?

 

[NimbusD]

Im sure 99% of those 'gifts' will never be used.

 

[UberTag]

Somehow I'm thankful that Jacob Tremblay didn't get nominated now.

 

[BadAss2961]

soon...

 

[Jigorath]

I was waiting for someone to make a Sopranos reference.

 

[Dice//]

 

[Pamplemousse]

You really can't say you've lived until you've had a vampire breast lift.

 

[Grover]

so thats why they didn't want any black people

 

[Gleethor]

http://youtu.be/KrQ3MdJuryk

I like you

 

[Gobias]

Meryl Streep must have a shelf full of high class vibrators.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

Holy shit these gifts are pretentious as fuck! Here's a titty rounder! Go get yourself this cause you'll need it next year to be on top! You're getting old as fuck so here's some skin tightener! Go smoke weed with this vape cause its cool! Go jerk off with these toys cause you need more sex on screen! Go visit Israel in first class to see how the top executives do it! Here's a fitness package because you all need to be fit and show your abs or you ain't getting that Downey Jr paycheck!

 

[M.Bluth]

Meryl Streep must have a shelf full of high class vibrators.

that should be an SNL sketch

 

[Ithil]

Oscar nominees in this year’s major categories will go home with a gift bag worth $200,000, featuring such essential items as a breast lift, sex toy and 15-day walking tour of Japan.

 

[Shard]

I do hope you they remember to mention all of that on their tax returns next year.

 

[akira28]

your shitty envy is just as gross.

it could be envy. or just frustration at the layout of things and the way the world operates. You don't think they could use vampire breast lifts in 3rd world countries? Or, just steady medical care.

 

[starchild excalibur]

I just don't get the point of it. Save for a few exceptions, most of the nominees probably afford anything they want / that the bag already offers. It just seems like a waste of product / money.

 

[weepy]

Meryl Streep must have a shelf full of high class vibrators.

I don't know if I should be impressed or mortified...

 

[BreezyLimbo]

Wasn't there a big hub bub a couple years ago over this exact thing?

Oh it was an IRS thing

 

[broncobuster]

Female nominees will also receive a $250 “arouser” offering “gentle suction and stimulation”.

You telling me my man Mark Rylance's isn't getting a $250 arouser?

 

[malfcn]

Plenty of money to go around, except towards the needy. Throw $200k to maybe interest a star in Y trying your shit rather than say, fund someone's college tuition.

 

[Grover]

can you imagine, instead of giving Leo an oscar, they hand him a dildo instead

 

[Skeyser]

I just don't get the point of it. Save for a few exceptions, most of the nominees probably afford anything they want / that the bag already offers. It just seems like a waste of product / money.

I was thinking the same, they probably drive cars more expansive than audi and already have their personal trainer etc

 

[Gordon Shumway]

And they say Oscar nominations ain't worth shit..

 

[Staccat0]

Cool!

Edit: Not all, but just the acting and directing nominees get the gift bag apparently.

Oh.

I mean it's the companies paying for this. The nominees are A-list actors and I presume they'd LOVE to have those actors using their products/services.

Yes. Totally. Sure.
But when is Bree Larson gonna talk about how much she loves her new vibrator?

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when... please tell me when...

 

[EatinOlives]

I mean it's the companies paying for this. The nominees are A-list actors and I presume they'd LOVE to have those actors using their products/services.

 

[Luigi87]

So no matter what Leo is guaranteed not to leave empty handed.

 

[okno]

These gift bags must just get so annoying for them.

Another gift bag.

 

[Rushersauce]

So no matter what Leo is guaranteed not to leave empty handed.

With an Oscar shaped dildo which he will use for torturing himself.

 

[Vibranium]

I know if I was rich it wouldn't matter but I'd rather have a gift bag of $200K worth of video games.

Always have to expand that backlog.

 

[HoodWinked]

they dont cost anything to the companies if they arent redeemed. also it would cost them alot more for them to get someone to be seen using something in public.

the companies are probably paying the oscars so they can give away their shit to celebrities.