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* Since an Oscar speech kicks off the plot of the comedy ''[[In and Out]]'', the first 15 minutes of the movie has a field day with this trope. First, Matt Dillon's character wins for playing a gay soldier unfairly discharged from the military in a movie called ''To Protect And Serve'', which is a hilariously hammy pastiche incorporating elements of ''A Few Good Men'', ''Philadelphia'' and ''Forrest Gump.'' Second, the other nominees in the category are listed as follows: "Paul Newman for ''Coot'', Clint Eastwood for ''Codger'', Michael Douglas for ''Primary Urges'' and Steven Seagal for ''Snowball in Hell''."
* ''[[The Naked Gun]] 33 1/3''. The films nominated at the Oscars were all ridiculously [[High Concept]] ("the story of a woman coming to terms with the death of her dog during the Hindenburg disaster).
* In ''[[Om Shanti Om]]'', bratty star Om "OK" Kapoor belatedly realizes that he is in the Indian equivalent of
** Later in the film, we are treated with a parody of a Filmfare Awards ceremony (The closest equivalent to the Oscars in Hindi film industry), and we see the nominations for Best Main Actor. Two of the nominations are parodies of the kind of action films the other nominees (Abhishek Bachchan and Akshay Kumar [[Adam Westing]]) are known to do, the other two are films by OK which are parodies of romantic films that Shah Rukh Khan (Ok's actor) have famously done.
=== [[Live Action TV]] ===
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