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Year after year, the award categories are populated with consistent archetypes: the underdog, the obvious filler, the perhaps-not-particularly-deserving-this-year-but-boy-is-it-about-time-she-won-already. The winner selection process, intrinsically tainted by Academy politics, is anything but quantitative—statistically, even the most impulsive civilian guesser is likely to make at least one correct prediction. This lends a satisfying, authoritative feel to one’s preferences regarding, for instance, Meryl Streep—who should be given an Oscar every year, by default, just to thank her for being Meryl Streep?...
...from Spinal Tap to sharks, it also reinforced the perception of documentaries as cinematic Brussels sprouts—good for you, perhaps, but not interesting enough for a four-dollar rental, and certainly not worth five dollars to own. (I’ll admit that this was my thought process, and all fourteen of the movies I left with were fiction films...
...delineate the details of its “core priorities,” and the lack of clarity has left some center adminstrators wondering whether placing decision-making power in the hands of the top rung of FAS will undermine their own stake in the budgetary planning process...
...This year’s budget process will be more in concert with this principle by placing a greater level of focus on core expenses,” she wrote...
...greatest downfall is that it fails to target any coherent fan base, lacking the upbeat bounce that has inspired intense adoration amongst the ecstatic masses at festivals across the globe. It would seem that this shameless sense of fun has been discarded somewhere in the production process. However, this new sound marks a distinct progression in Groove Armada’s development; a refreshed musical vision that emerges during “Black Light’s” most thrilling sections, and will hopefully blossom further in Groove Armada’s future releases...