Clodagh Finn: Call me a loser but why do we turn everything into a competition?

It's impossible to avoid those programmes which make a viewer feel distinctly below par, writes Clodagh Finn

Cedric Gibbons, the Dubliner who designed the Oscar statuette, left, and Kenneth Branagh, who won best original screenplay for ‘Belfast’.

If you think winning is important – which we clearly do – here is an interesting way to reframe the Oscars awards ceremony; that vaguely obscene parade of fame, entitlement and, to be fair, talent.

Every time a recipient holds up the famous gold statuette, we might consider it an Irish win because the man who designed it came from Dublin.