Nearly 10,000 feature films were released last year. We saw
about three dozen of these; the ones we felt would be uplifting and entertaining.
Of the movies we deemed worth the time and money, just six received Oscar
nominations: Joy, Shaun the Sheep, The Martian, Cinderella, Inside Out and The
Force Awakens. Only one of the movies we saw actually won an Oscar. In the real
world, the Academy Awards are completely irrelevant. The more I learn about the
selection process, the less this fact surprises me. The Oscar winners are
chosen by 6,000 voters living in San Francisco, New York and London. These people
– we know absolutely nothing else about them – have just over three weeks to
see the 50+ nominated films before making their decisions. This means most of
the voters never saw most of the movies they voted on. The ones they did catch
they probably didn’t see on the big screen.
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