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, Avatar will win Best Picture. It won’t be the first time the Oscars made a mistake in giving its biggest award to a movie that is hugely successful at the box office and only marginally successful with critics. But the good news is that history has a way of sorting out what was really the best movie in any given year.
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