Why are a bunch of 60 plus year old men still running the Academy in Hollywood, responsible for selecting the candidates for the Oscars? Their selection criteria for Best Picture is so clear, let me set it out for you:
- Anything based on the life of a real person? POTENTIAL CANDIDATE ALERT!!
- Anything set during World War I or II? So it must be good!!!
- Both? Then everything is awesome!!!
Seriously, tell me that's not how this is going. Why the heck is American Sniper nominated over the likes of Foxcatcher and Nightcrawler, when they are supposedly far superior? And even then, you could have had all of those films as you do have the power to nominate up to 10 films remember! But, by far the biggest snub this year is The Lego Movie for Best Animated Picture. OK, great joke guys, but come on now, where is it? Wait, you're serious....What is wrong with you? So instead we're dealing with Disney flick Big Hero 6 (which will win because Disney), a creepy as anything one (The Boxtrolls in case you couldn't work it out), A Dreamworks film, and two nobody has heard of. Sure, having the last 15 minutes in live action probably didn't help it's chances, but the majority was in animation so it should count, shouldn't it? The collective gasp from the audience when the nominations were announced with no Lego Movie says it all: that having a bunch of folks running the primary awards show is not doing anything for their popularity as they continue to grow so far apart from what is relevant now and stay in the past (why do you think Clint Eastwood always gets nominated). Get it together guys, or literally no one is going to watch your awards or care about them anymore.
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