"Poison them all," suggests one Twitter user, while another advocates releasing live raccoons into the room as a distraction, and another plumps for running away.

"It does seem to me that academy voters do plump for things that are relevant in contemporary America," says "Miss Sloane" screenwriter Jonathan Perera.

By contrast, the Sun’s take is fairly tame, plumping for the cosy familiarity of foreigners, elites and a blink-and-that’ll-be-funnier-than-actually-seeing-it pun.