Well, I was watching the Oscar Ceremony last Sunday. I finished a little bit disappointed with the prizes to The King’s Speech. Ok, it is a good film, but in my opinion a little bit overrated. So I thought about the winners in the last years. I wanted to check whether they were also the “favorites” of the public or not. I used the Imdb website, where the fans rate the movies giving points, with a maximum of ten. I revised the Best Picture category and this is what I found:
2010
Winner: The King´s Speech 8.4
Nominees:
Inception 8.9
The Fighter 8.1
Black Swan 8.5
Winter’s Bone 7.4
Toy Story 3 – 8.7
True Grit 8.1
The Kids Are All Right 7.3
127 Hours 8.1
The Social Network 8.0
2009
Winner: The Hurt Locker 7.8
Nominees:
Avatar 8.2
The Blind Side 7.7
District 9 – 8.2
An Education 7.5
Inglorius Basterds 8.4
Precious 7.5
A Serious Man 7.2
Up in the Air 7.8
Up 8.4
2008
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire 8.3
Nominees:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 8.0
Frost/Nixon 7.9
Milk 7.8
The Reader 7.7
2007
Winner: No Country for Old Men 8.3
Nominees:
Juno 7.8
Atonement 7.8
Michael Clayton 7.5
There Will Be Blood 8.2
2006
Winner: The Departed 8.5
Nominees:
Babel 7.6
Letters from Iwo Jima 8
Little Miss Sunshine 8
The Queen 7.5
So… the answer is that the Academy sometimes shares the likes of the public and sometimes, not (yeah, it is not a great discovery, I know). In addition, the “worst” nominated film in the last five years is “A Serious Man”.
Finally, I believe that it would be interesting to analyze the effect that the Oscars have on the scoring of the movies. Maybe in a post in this blog, later.
For the record, the best moment of the gala was the spoof movie in the beginning:
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