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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 4013618" data-attributes="member: 32740">"Best", if you'll forgive the phraseology, is at best subjective and in fact, is not even accurate.  The rules (and even the statue I think) state "for outstanding acheivement", not "BEST".  In other words, strictly going by verbage, they have every excuse to snub films and performances that are truly classifiable as the best of a given year in favor of what they think should have been achieved - such as making a political statement or being the most popular person in town at the moment and they want to slap you on the back and call you one of their in-crowd.Yeah, that's a little unfair but it's still accurate to a degree.  The people who vote for the Oscars are the members of Academy.  Their rules say NOTHING about WHY members should place one nominee at the top of the list over the others.  It IS a popularity contest within the Academy and I think past results have demonstrated this repeatedly.This is their right.  It's their award so they can handle it the way they want.  But the way they want people to THINK about their award is that it DOES represent an unbiased, accurate assessment of artistic and technical merit.  I suppose that this is what has come to bother me so much about the Oscars.  I would almost prefer the Peoples Choice Awards, or even MTV's movie awards which are openly a pure popularity contest - and have public voting.  That at least, while it may completely miss actual artistic and technical merit, has no pretensions to those awards being other than what they are.  The kind of awards which the Oscars pretend to be - and which I would have more respect for - would require a much more comprehensive set of rules for nomination and means of determining a winner.  I mean in some years there could be the possibility of NO awards being handed out by virtue of the years crop of movies simply not being up to past standards, as well as the possibility of MULTIPLE winners rather than 1 vote difference meaning that one movie gets the award and all that goes with it while the other(s) are perceived to have failed or have been snubbed.That kind of critical assessment is not what anyone wants with awards though.  That kind of critical assessment is supposed to be what CRITICS are for - and critical opinions vary.</blockquote>

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