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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 4008755" data-attributes="member: 32740">[rant]Every year that passes I find myself less and less interested in much less appreciative of the Oscars.  It isn't just the fact that each year I seem to have seen fewer and fewer of the nominations.  It isn't just that otherwise fine and enjoyable films, performances, and personages are ignored or passed over for recognition.  It isn't just that their rules make it difficult to be appreciative of movies that nobody has even had decent opportunity to see before they hand out awards for it.  It isn't that certain genres are stiffed in what stinks to me of elitist snobbery.  It isn't just that they are losing ground in a glut of other awards.Hey, I appreciate that it's the Academy's award.  They can handle it all however they like for whatever reasons they like.  I guess what gets to me is the idea that it's hyped and inaccurately perceived as more than what it is - merely a mark of prestige.  I don't think it's a comprehensive award and in fact is fairly insular.  How else could exclusive little movies that nobody wants to see get disporportionate recognition - and yet pass by so many other small and wonderful films?  It wants to bill itself as the be-all/end-all but each year that proves less and less true.And the show itself has been too long by HOURS for decades now.[/rant]</blockquote>