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But critics from an array of perspectives in the film industry have described the standards as the equivalent of tinsel — flimsy and showy — doing more to gild Hollywood’s image than to help people the movie business has long overlooked.

So here’s my Nana’s original no-frills recipe, without any fuss, any tweaks or anything to gild the lily.

“I can’t gild the lily,” he said.

“The challenge of it was to try to go to that place but not gild the lily too much,” Scott says.

“There’s enough in the actual facts that you don’t have to gild the lily and go overboard. That’s when they might risk turning off the independent-minded viewers who don’t like Trump.”