aren't there separate judges for each of the awards? They have to watch all the movies in the nomination to vote. I don't understand what you're saying to be honest
balloting is done within the separate branches, but voting is done en masse. also no they don't;
this is why Crash won. I don't understand what you don't understand? do you think the Oscars are legit at all? in any way?
okay let me help you out:
The Academy is not a legitimate judging organization; it's ACTORS AND DIRECTORS AND SCREENPLAY WRITERS. now you might think uh so what? do you think they're going to vote anyone but one of their buds in? here's Filthy:
People think of the Academy as some sort of amorphous, all-knowing thing. It's not. It is made up of 6,000 people who make their living on the swill Hollywood forces down our throats every year. When you care what the Academy likes, you're saying, "Elton John, tell me what to watch!" "John Singleton, director of 2 Fast, 2 Furious, what DVD should I own?" "Betty Thomas, you did such a great job on John Tucker Must Die that I'm dying to know what you liked best last year of all the crap you got sent a free DVD of." You also get the expert opinion of Greg Cannon, who did the makeup on Van Helsing and the hateful asshole who wrote You've Got mail thrown in for free. Oh, yeah, Jerry Fuckenheimer gets a vote too. You see, these aren't all-knowing geniuses. They're the same pricks who ream you up the ass with retreads for 95% of the year, because they don't want to try anything new.
Besides having bad taste and poor execution, these people also want future jobs and sure as shit are going to vote for the people they hope to work with, or who they have worked with before and liked. The Academy members who aren't so damn old they're senile or juicing their Depends don't give a shit too much about what was the best movie, just what was best within their circle of acquaintances. They also don't get out much. They don't see the movies in theaters every week; they get deluxe-packaged "For Your Consideration" to watch in their living room, while making dinner, doing e-mail, surfing porn or writing the script for the next Police Academy. Hell, I'm not even in their business and I can manage to get to a movie theater every week, to watch movies undistracted and on the big screen. Of course, I'm not like the fatheads in Hollywood who all seem to think they are special and need privacy. Clearly, that's why they choose to work in movies.
now, in 2005 a small movie named Crash shocked everyone by winning best picture over favorites Brokeback Mountain and Munich. people scrambled to find out why. an advertising director, it turns out, had hit on a brilliant idea; send everyone in the Academy a copy of Crash.
because they wouldn't have watched it otherwise. that's right. Crash won because it was a movie
most of them had seen. I'm not making this up btw; the New Yorker just had a piece about this.
after this, they all learned their lesson and now everyone who's in SAG tends to get gift baskets. of course, what happens when everyone is sending you movies and you already weren't watching that many? which are you going to watch, every best actress nom and every foreign film and UGH. how about you watch the Best Picture and ballpark the rest? hmm? oh that's what they probably did?
well!
isn't that not surprising at all.
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