[mhking]

What was the cut-off for you? Driving Miss Daisy, Rain Man or The Last Emperor? :)

"Last Emperor" - Maybe I just started growing up.

[Borges]

TLE remains one of the least seen Oscar winners of all time.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

[Fred Hayek]

The Awards jumped the shark long ago, when "Hearts and Minds" got the "best documentary", in fact a propaganda piece for Hanoi. Upon accepting the award, the directors' speech praised the Khmer Rouge for taking over Cambodia. I was a kid then, and my folks saw me giving the bird to the TV and saying things like ******* Commies, go back to ******* Hanoi". The reaction was What is that all about? I said "Just wait and watch." A few years later was the news of the genocide in Cambodia.

[finnigan2]

"What was the cut-off for you? Driving Miss Daisy, Rain Man or The Last Emperor?"

- Rain Man.
Dustin Hoffman sleepwalked through this movie showing no more emotion than a slack jawed Mongoloid on Prozac and still won Best Actor. After that, I realized that the Awards were nothing more than a PR promotion and I stopped watching.
It's one thing to be taken for a fool by the "Academy" each year by watching this over hyped circus, it's quite another to really be one by doing so.