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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Acid_crash" data-source="post: 4012770" data-attributes="member: 16278">All I can tell is that this year proves again that each year the politics of the academy awards is going more and more into a certain direction that only certain movies of a certain type can even be considered for best picture...It's a crock, a sham, and they really need to broaden their horizons as to what makes a movie a good movie.  If a movie is not a drama, it will never be considered for best picture.  It's a sham.  It's all political, nothing more.  Of all those movies nomiated for best picture, only Juno deserves it, the rest were okay and good, but nothing compared to other movies that were released this year.They are elitist in their thinking, are unfair in their desicion making, and lets the politics of the event get in the way of being really open and fair about it.  I'd say in the last ten years or so, the only two movies to win that truly deserved it was Gladiator and Return of the King-Lord of the Rings.  The rest were all political statements that didn't deserve to win, let alone be nominated.  Some won to make up for a past wrong decision, as was the Departed last year, and others were just so stupid that only money must have been past into certain peoples hands in order for their movie to win, like American Beauty.Stardust should have been on that list, as should Transformers and 300.  And as much as I loved Transformers and feel that it was the best movie, I'd actually pick Stardust as THE Best movie made and relased in the last year.  I can't stand them.</blockquote>

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