Five movies about just two topics — Elizabethan England and World War II — could not have been more different from each other. As it turned out, the wrong movie with the queen won, and the wrong movie about World War II has been portrayed as the one that got shafted.
So maybe The English Patient winning Best Picture over Fargo isn’t as tragic as aliens blowing up the White House, a tornado destroying a drive-in movie theater, Nicholas Cage in an action movie or, say, a presidential election leading us into global economic meltdown, but it isn’t that far behind.
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