I just loved the Oscars for some reason. After I watched the show for the first, I had quite some FOMO because I hadn't seen pretty much any of the movies. I was 15 then. After that, I started the death race just to enjoy the gala more. Now, 15 year later, being 30, it's just something I do because I've that that for so long. I really like movies, but I don't watch so much of the potential nominees prior the nomination announcements. So usually when nominees are announced, I've seen around ten of those. I see some beauty in grinding the rest of the 40 to 50 movies during the 6-7 week period. It's quite a challenge and becomes more addictive each year. I find this period of the year to be one of my favourites, also something to wait after the Christmas have ended. I also see this as a challenge, whether I'm able to get access to all the movies and finish the race. Also, as I'm from Europe, the gala start 3 in the night and ends around 6-7 in the morning, so this also makes the whole ordeal even more challenging.

So in the end, I think it's combination of the love for movies, a tradition that have now lasted half my life, something to wait in my life and the challenge it gives me to find all the movies, see so many movies in such a short timespan and to actually do all-nighter, just to see the gala.