[yankeedame]

I bet a great deal of that 1983 audience tuned in that year to see if E.T., at that time the most popular film of all time, would win...it lost to Gandhi.

I know I hopelessly aging myself, I remember when STAR WARS first came out. (When it was still shinning and new, not rehashed to death) Everybody was ga-ga over the movie and was sure it would win the Oscar for Best Movie.

Fat chance! Apparently too many of the great unwashed [that's us] liked it. So instead, Best Movie went to Woody Allen's "Annie Hall"!

It was right there I started seeing the Oscars in a whole new light.

[Borges]

I was among those who liked 'Annie Hall' more then Star Wars. It's a great movie!

[SkyPilot]

Annie Hall should never, ever have won best picture that year. It was not the worst movie I have ever seen, but Star Wars in 1976 should have won it.

The most obvious flaw in Hollywood arrogance was when the sappy, overacted "Shakespear in Love" won over "Saving Private Ryan."

Later, almost 40% of the 6,000 Academy voting members admitted to Newsweek that they refused to even view Saving Private Ryan. Their "excuse" was that they did not want to watch a film that "glorified violence and war."

Hollywood just doesn't get it.