Spotlight got Best Pic. and Best original screenplay, i doubt that anybody in 5
year will remember it. Star Wars got no best Picture Oscar in 1978, and 5
years later who cares who won best picture in 1978 or 2016.

And the force was not strong enough, got no Oscar. At least Mr. Lucas will be
happy. So Avatar still holds the Fort for overall success at the Box-office
and overall reputation.

Stallone got robbed

What does Star Wars give a shit about Best Picture?
I feel bad for Spotlight, cause that nice little movie is gonna get so dumped on.

I could care less about Best Picture, but John Williams got F-ing screwed over by the OK score for hateful 8.

It was allirght. John Williams got screwed over by that crappy hateful 8 score.

The black actors crying for diversity are just annoying me now. It’s clear they don’t care about actual diversity. They don’t give a shit about Hispanic or Latino or Asian Americans or any other minority. If they did they would have gone to bat for them last night. But no, they only care about black people and they are only trying to make it into a white vs black issue. There’s only one group of people perpetuating a racial divide here and it ain’t the Academy voters. MLK would be rolling in his grave thinking this crap was still going on fifty years after his death.

Rather than a genuine call for diversity in the end it just came off as “You didn’t vote for any black people so now we’re going to spoil the party.”

The fact that there was all this talk about embracing diversity and no one acknowledged that two of the song nominee performers, transgender singer Anohni and Korean soprano Sumi Jo,were not invited to perform due to “time constraints” was lame. Obviously, they were deemed not famous enough to perform their nominated songs, even if that was a prime opportunity to display some diversity.

I agree it was the “worst” of the series of greatest music ever made for the history of movies. The stuff from Hateful 8 was OK, but not even in the same ballpark as Williams.

Spotlight winning Best Picture is why the Oscars make no sense to me. I have always assumed that best picture meant best production, from script, to pre-production, to filming, to editing, to final movie as a whole. Now, I didn’t expect Mad Max to win Best Picture but when it takes home 6 Oscars for elements that clearly covered all bases from pre to post production shouldn’t a film like that pretty much be an obvious choice for Best Picture?

I’m sure Spotlight is a great film, but to only win best Original Screenplay (even though it’s based on true events, I wish Oscar could explain that one) and then be given Best Picture, when it lost on Editing, lost on Director, lost on both Acting awards.

The Revenant & Mad Max were nominated for 9 non-acting awards and Spotlight was nominated for 3 (not including Best Picture for either)… Just from that which would you assume were the better production?

Not in the same ballpark? What the hell are you talking about? Excactly what original score in The Force Awakens was it that was so good? I certainly didn’t find it memorable. Morricone is probably the best film composer of all time (certainly better than Williams), and he proved that this year.

Ever heard that saying about the whole and the parts and stuff?

Annie is one
of WA great movie, but not the most creative movie of the year. Same with
Citizen Kane and Vertigo, who also got forgotten at the Oscar. Not to mention
1941. Spotlight is a very good movie,
but not close to mad max in the field of creativity. The Oscar Committee seems
to be in favour of directors of “safe” conventional movies. Hitchcock never got
a regular Oscar, which shows that the Oscar Committee not always …is quite
right. Lifeboat and Psycho were unconventional. And who remembers the 1945 Winner
“Going my Way”? I admit that he lost to directs
like Wilder, Zinneman and Kazan, who all were brilliant directors.

No doubt. The film had a strong made-for-television vibe (not unlike Crash). Generally, though, a film is not remembered or hailed in light of the awards it receives (or nominated for), I don’t think. Nominations and awards–and the ceremony, most especially–are a masturbatory endevour anyhow, and making attempts to apply reason to the outcome of these convoluted processes is part and parcel of the tradition.