The Academy Awards is pretentious and lacking true understanding of what makes a good film. It is supposed to recognize the best in film making, not what a certain group of people consider the artsy and most solemn piece of film they can understand (or not, since foreign films are nominated). I appreciate how lesser known films are nominated, but I don't appreciate how movies that people actually SAW are dismissed as nothing more than summer blockbusters. Even after the Best Picture category was expanded to 9 instead of 5 films being featured, (arguably because of the fan uproar of the absence of The Dark Knight) more films nobody's heard of are being nominated.
What happened to the days where big budget blockbusters could be nominated? Star Wars, E.T., Indiana Jones, anybody?
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