I think you take the Oscars far more seriously than some of us do Ernest, they are fun to watch and chat about and they are mercifully totally forgotten a week or a month later, no one remembers who won what when or how, in a few years time the man on the street will be convinced Fellowship of...
Wow you really do have it in for ROTK don't you? I suppose if it does win Best Picture we'll never hear the end of it, and how Mystic Bloody River was so criminally robbed of Oscar glory.;)