The Academy should go back to five nominations for best tim. With 10 nominations, a nomination is no longer a big deal.
2010 - King’s Speech - worth watching (but True Grit should have won, and Black Swan was also better than the winner)
2011 - The Artist - clever (Hugo and Moneyball were better)
2012 - Argo - not worth watching (Life of Pi and Lincoln were each far better, the problem with Lincoln is that it is difficult to distinguish Daniel Day-Lewis’ performance from the movie, and the history is more wrong than is allowed by artistic license)
2013 - Birdman - haven’t seen it (American Sniper is a wonderful movie)
2014 - Spotlight - haven’t seen it
COMMON THEME of winners: self-absorbed Holleywierd. Better films often lose to worse. Pro-America films can’t win.
It was predictable that American Sniper, despite being commercially and artistically successful, couldn’t be permitted to win.
I always compare the Best Foreign Language Picture winner vs The Oscar winner.
Almost every year the Foreign picture is better.
I like King’s Speech, and The Artist.... and loved Argo
HATED>>. literally.. HATED Birdman.
Spotlight was OK.. but, if it was the BEST, it was BAD year.
I hope La La Land wins tonight. It was refreshing.