5 Reasons The Oscars Matter Even Less Than You Thought

The Academy Awards are like Hollywood’s Super Bowl (what with the betting pools, the bean dip, the coma-inducing length) but with one important difference: Super Bowl rings are actually awarded on merit.

…neither should the movie we give it to.” Since the most interesting filmmakers of the past 30 years have mostly been interested in America’s obsession with violence, this made for some pretty unforgivable bullshit.
In 1990, the Academy rewarded a boring love letter to the Noble Savage fallacy, Dances With Wolves, snubbing Goodfellas. Consider the legacy of those two films: Name a director worth a crap in the past 20 years, and they’ll cite Goodfellas as a major influence. It’s arguably the finest mob movie ever filmed. The only time Wolves is mentioned these days is to point out where Cameron ripped off the story for Avatar.

Nothing you can do will stop it!
If Goodfellas isn’t the most influential film of the past 25 years, it’s a close second behind Pulp Fiction. Tarantino didn’t just deconstruct the way people thought about filmmaking, he obliterated it in a coke-fueled fury, stabbing convention in the chest with a giant needle, rebuilding the noir as a candy coated cyanide pill cut with cayenne pepper,…

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5 Reasons The Oscars Matter Even Less Than You Thought

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