Shakespeare in love killed the oscars .
It’s a noticeable drop off in quality before and after than flick one
What a forgettable movie that one was.
I still give that movie credit for when Gwyneth's character asks Shakespeare if "he wrote all those plays?" and Shakespeare hesitates before saying "of course".
A funny nod to the conspiracy theorists.
Funny you would say that-that was the last time I ever watched the Oscars-I thought “Saving Private Ryan” should have won that year.
“Shakespeare In Love” was a fluff movie, you forgot about it as soon as you left the theater.
That movie beat out Saving Private Ryan because of Harvey Weinstein's shenanigans. Next year was American Beauty, a few years later Crash. All unworthy pictures.
This has been a problem with the Oscars for a LONG time. For instance, in 1968, "In the Heat of the Night" won largely for being racially correct. It could have been worse. At least it wasn't "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?"
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? had Hepburn and Tracy together, maybe for the last time, and could have been given the award for that.
Political correctness and racial sensitivity undoubtedly played a role, but I can understand In the Heat of the Night winning as a representative of Old Hollywood. The Graduate and Bonny and Clyde were better pictures but they were too edgy for the Academy. Bonny and Clyde was violent and seen as amoral. The Graduate struck the older film community as listless and uninspiring, a movie about a schlubby dropout.
The next year Midnight Cowboy won -- definitely a dark horse and an outsider picture. I'd put the beginning of the change there. After Moonlight won in 2016 the transformation was complete, and the movies the Academy liked were definitely very different from those public liked. You could see the downward spiral over the last 20 years, with one of the Lord of the Rings picture as maybe the only real exception.