[Borges]

That year, in which "Titanic" hauled in 11 Oscars, marked the ceremony's best showing since 1983.

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.

[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.

[yankeedame]

at that time the most popular film of all time, would win...it lost to Gandhi.

Did you know that movie ("Gandhi") was very heavily subsidized by the Ministry of Culture of India? As a result the plot/story line was a bit,er, "expansive", shall we say.