In honour of today’s Academy Awards, an all-Oscars edition of SWL.
Don’t forget to check out our Oscars liveblog, kicking off at 11:45am.
11 questionable Best Picture wins. Geeks Of Doom count down some of the more questionable Best Picture wins over the years. In hindsight, should Star Wars have beaten Annie Hall? Was Taxi Driver more worthy than Rocky?
The Razzies. Always running alongside the Academy Awards, the Golden Raspberry Awards recognise the worst in cinema over the previous year. This year’s winners have been announced, with some highly deserving recipients, including a sweep for Mike Myers and his film The Love Guru.
The politics of the Oscars. Politics.co.uk check out some of the more politically-slanted movies up for awards.
Man bites ‘Slumdog’. A former Indian street kid gives his assessment of Best Picture shoe-in Slumdog Millionare in Newsweek:
People keep praising the film’s “realistic” depiction of slum life in India. But it’s no such thing. Slum life is a cage. It robs you of confidence in the face of the rich and the advantaged. It steals your pride, deadens your ambition, limits your imagination and psychologically cripples you whenever you step outside the comfort zone of your own neighborhood. Most people in the slums never achieve a fairy-tale ending.
Slate’s Oscar coverage. Slate has so many good articles on the awards, we won’t link to just one — but make sure you check out What does a Hollywood Producer do, exactly?, Don’t give an Oscar to The Reader, and Does being a jerk prevent you from winning an Oscar?
