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The controversy, as I understand it, has to do how the weighted balloting process could potentially have been manipulated through a coordinated effort by a handful of voters, much like what happened with the silly "Fan Favorite" Oscar last year. Evidently the Academy is concerned that internet...

He probably should have won for Pulp Fiction , but veteran actor Martin Landau, despite being wonderful in Ed Wood, may have also benefitted from the "give it to him before he dies" Oscar sentiment described earlier.

Then you have the actors who finally won an award, but they won it for "the wrong movie," or as a film studies professor I had once called them, the "give it to them before they die" awards. Paul Newman for The Color of Money, Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman, Kate Winslett for The Reader...

I stand corrected. I've been living a lie! :mellow:

True, but Pacino didn't attend the ceremony in protest over "category fraud" because he felt he'd been nominated in the wrong category. So, while maybe not "snubbed," he definitely felt "slighted."

If the movie didn't receive a single nomination, "snubbed" doesn't feel like the right word. "Not nominated" seems more fitting. To be snubbed (in my view, anyway) is when a movie gets nominated in every major category, including Best Picture, but one player is conspicuously left out, and that...

In my mind, there is likely a correlation between the Best Director nominees and which movies would have been the top five. Prior to the increase in picture nominations, 4 out of 5 BP nods were usually up for Best Director as well.

There was a period from 2004-2008 where there were not any real box-office Blockbusters nominated. Looking at the top-10 grossing movies of those years, however, there is almost nothing that seems Oscar-worthy. I think only The Dark Knight was even legitimately in the Oscar conversation. Prior...

I'd actually be okay with that (though I suspect EEAAO and The Fabelmans would still be in the mix). The Oscars once had at least the illusion of prestige attached to them, but now what they really seem to want is to be The People's Choice Awards.

It may not help with the TV ratings, but one thing that would make the awards more compelling to me personally would be if they went back to only having 5 Best Picture nominees. There is a direct correlation between when the number of nominees increased and when my interest began to wane. Now...

That is true, but even with Hollywood's vanity, I'm guessing this is one mirror they aren't quite ready to look into.

The point being that, regardless of the qualities of SHE SAID, the crimes of Harvey Weinstein were swept under the rug by Hollywood and ignored by the Academy for decades, making him the elephant in the room the Academy would probably rather we not think about while we celebrate the magic of...

Had SHE SAID been nominated, the telecast could have included a cringe montage of all of the movies produced by Harvey Weinstein that received Oscar nominations and awards through the years, and every time his name has been mentioned in an acceptance speech.