>>64120358
Capote was pretty boring tbqh. Don't care 'bout Crash's politcs but it was way more interesting formally and aesthetically.

Corporate payola. Or like when Marissa Tomei "won"....
/someone said the wrong name

>>64120414
>aesthetically
Crash looked like a fucking TV movie. And not a good one.

>>64120358
Best picture hasn't meant anything for 20 years.
Wins are based on bribes, industry politic and the pretentious morons in the academy making picks that pander to their sensibilities (bonus points for films about the industry, civil rights/antiwar political pieces, biopics etc.).
Go ahead and take a look at best picture winners from 95ish to 2015 and try to tell me that a majority actually deserved the a award.

>>64120358

Nothing will beat the robbery of '99

>>64120643
No country for old men

>>64120734
Jesus christ...

I said, try to tell me that a majority of the winners deserved it, not pick one film that you thought deserved best picture.

>>64120734
He said " try to tell me that a majority actually deserved the a award". No Country For Old Men is an exception, most winners from 1995 to 2015 didn't deserve to win.

>>64120706
I hope you mean 98.

>>64120643
You're being too kind, the academy has been a joke ever since 1980.

>>64120643
>American Beauty
>Gladiator
>Return of the King
>The Departed
That's all I've got.

>>64120859
This. That was a particularly bad fuck up. Two amazing war films that are fondly remembered to this day lost to a shitty romance that no one has cared about in over a decade.

>>64120881
I feel like the picks during the 80s were a bit more consistent than they are these days, though obviously you still have unbelievable shit like dances with wolves winning over goodfellas.

>>64120888
Now consider that you're only looking at the films that made it to nomination. How many nomination snubs do you think you've forgotten at this point?

>why did this white guilt movie win the oscar

because it was a white guilt pandering movie