"That's not what the Oscars are (or should be) about, though. The voters don't sit there and think "Hmm, which movie entertained the most people? OK, I guess I have to vote for that one."
But they do--Titanic was that kind of film and commentators are always saying" they like the OLD hollywood blockbuster type films of yesterday
By the way I REALLY did make a mistake in not writing BROKEBACK,but it does seem an interesting one
I don't see any evidence of that. Titanic did well both critically and financially, but the Oscar voters just plain LIKED it--they didn't sit there and think "Well, the public likes it, so we gotta." I mean, if they did that, you wouldn't even have to argue your original point.
Oscar voters vote for their own reasons, they don't have to vote for something because the public likes it. The Academy also gave Best Pic to such movies as The Last Emperor, which certainly wasn't the #1 film of the year with the public.
The Oscar voters vote for what they want to vote for, and that's how it should be--they aren't awarding the Award for the Movie Most Americans Like, after all. One of the reasons the Academy is such a joke to someone like me is because they so obviously vote for a film's agenda some of the time, and other times vote for something they see as being arty but mainstream, too.
,i>By the way I REALLY did make a mistake in not writing BROKEBACK,but it does seem an interesting one
I wasn't gonna touch that one. In any case, watching a love story between two gay cowboys isn't my idea of fun.