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When was the last time a masterpiece won the Best Picture Oscar? It is perhaps not possible anymore, not with Twitter and more awards shows than there are people in Hollywood. Voters can’t align around one so they choose never to align around any. As the DGA prepares their awards show for tomorrow night, and 14,500 of them are voting, it seems very likely it will...
ENTER OUR CONTEST! For 82 out of 86 Oscar years the directors have controlled the way Best Picture has been handed down. They matter. They are what the Academy was built to do: professionals deciding the best of the year. The entire Academy has looked to them for guidance in almost every year of their existence. Yet this year, suddenly, they don’t matter. What...
