Shame on the Academy

It occurred to me during the Academy awards that the entire institution of the award show has been compromised. It has very little to do with excellent film making anymore, but a lot more to do with pushing the right agenda. Can you honestly tell me that the best pictures of the year all had relentless political agenda’s behind them? When is the last time you remember the best actor, best actress, best director, and best picture, all go to different movies?? Simple, the last time a bunch of liberals were trying desperately to please several different groups of people. The academy should be ashamed of themselves, they have completely compromised their institution, in favor of political gains and it’s a shame. The Awards should be about celebrating the most well made movies, and performances of the year, period.

Best Picture: I can live with Crash being best picture, it was a very good movie, but I don’t think for a second it was the best movie I saw last year. Crash is about as subtle as a kick in the crotch, lets be realistic about this. I think it take more skill to provoke thought through the clever telling of a story, however; Crash is absurdly deliberate. When I think of great works throughout history, I think of books like Crime and Punishment, novels that couldn’t be deliberate for fear of their government's. They had to be clever about their social commentary, and it invoked the thinker in all of us, they didn’t beat us over the head with messages like Crash. If Crash was not about race relations, people would have called it heavy handed, and average.

I saw two movies last year that were indisputable the most well made pictures of the season: Cinderella man and Walk the Line. Unfortunately there just aren’t any social issues in either of these films, so haw can they be honored? If Ron Howard had made Max Bear a homophobe, we’d be talking about his big win right now.