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...those low-angle shots, the deep-focus cinematography, the oblique, multifaceted view of a powerful publisher? Those aren't innovations; they're ostentations - cinematic showing off. Thus the Academy blew its chance to give due homage to what is still considered the greatest American movie. (See the top 10 Oscar-nomination snubs...
...Grudge Report. Maybe the Oscar voters simply hate Cameron; apparently that's an easy and widespread feeling in Hollywood. The evening provided ample evidence that some categories were a popularity contest - not among the mass of viewers but the 5,000-plus Academy voters. They may as well have scrawled, "We like you, we really like you," on their ballots next to the boxes checked off for Best Actress Bullock (The Blind Side) and Best Actor Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart). The victors' chief competition, Meryl Streep and Clooney, were two more examples of the haves: 16 Oscar nominations...
...grossing film of all time was creamed by the least-seen film ever to win the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences's top prize. Even the Argentine director took home one more Oscar than Cameron did on Sunday night. Hell, the hippie Swedish dude who did the sound editing and mixing for The Hurt Locker out-statuetted Cameron two to nothing. And at the end of the broadcast, co-host Steve Martin kidded, "The show is so long that Avatar now takes place in the past." Now that's just piling on. By then, Cameron was the underdog...
Rather than the politically correct, nonjudgmental phrase that has been foisted on presenters for more than two decades - "And the Oscar goes to ..." - presenters this year introduced each winner with the blunt, old-fashioned but perfectly accurate phrase "And the winner is ..." (See the top 10 memorable moments of the 2010 Academy Awards...
...pictures of Oscar fashion from the red carpet...