Agreed the year that American Beauty and Ciderhouse Rules won all the awards was the year I finally understood how unremitting hostile Hollywood was to traditional Judaeo-Christian morality, and how self-consciously nihilistic their embraced alternative really was.
I think I’ve been to the movies three or four times since.
The only really high quality movies that were “Oscar quality” in recent years have been foreign movies. Hollywood can make movies will special effects up the wazzoo, but they can’t tell a story worth a crap.