Here’s an update… it’s not just me who thinks the Academy is a bunch of self-absorbed elitists:
The problem with the Oscars is that voters are nominating films that relatively few people have seen…
…2005, when the five Best Picture nominees combined to gross just $245M.
BOX OFFICE FOR 2005 BEST PICTURE NOMINEES
Crash - $54.5M
Brokeback Mountain - $83M
Capote - $28.75M
Good Night and Good Luck - $31.5M
Munich - $47.4MThe disconnect between the Oscars and rank-and-file movie fans started in 2005. This is where the Academy Awards “came off the rails.”
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/smason/2009/01/22/oscarsnub/#more-28397
[...] week I called the “Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences” a bunch of leftist punks due to their formulaic, pretentious nominations for Best Picture. The flick I was most surprised [...]