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Originally Posted by Bowser
If Avatar wins best picture, they need to stop giving away best picture awards henceforth.
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I disagree. Frankly, they'd already lost respectability when they gave it to "Shakespeare In Love" over "Saving Private Ryan". "Braveheart" over "Apollo 13" wasn't that great of a choice in my book, either. Nor was "The English Patient" over "Fargo". "Chicago"? "LOTR: Return Of The King"? "Million Dollar Baby" over "The Aviator"? "Crash" over "Brokeba..."... uhh, never mind, LOL. The Oscars are only a slightly-better popularity-contest than the NFL Pro Bowl.
And it's not like this year's lineup has a must-win pic. "Basterds" was a solid Tarantino pic but, really, is there anything in it that screamed "Best Picture Oscar" to you when you saw it? Hell, if "Pulp Fiction" lost to "Forrest Gump", I can't see why it would be a shocker for "Basterds" to lose to "Avatar". I was surprised it was even nominated. "The Hurt Locker", while generally praised, also has its share of detractors.
And, don't forget, they have an entirely new voting process this year which really f**ks it up. They had people list them 1-10, and the one with the least 1 votes gets tossed, and those who voted that film 1 they then take their 2 vote, and they keep doing that. A strange way of tabulating which could throw a monkey wrench into things.