How this didn't win Best Picture I have no idea

Rating: 10/10 (21 January 2012)

Out of all the nominations for Best Picture in 1998 at the Academy Awards I'm still baffled how this one isn't the movie to take home the statue. Instead you have some lame Shakespeare in Love get that honor that no one in this century even remembers. You don't see SiL getting re-played on cable all the time like SPR does. You don't have a great half hour opening scene like in SPR with the Normandy scene which is one of the best scenes in motion picture history.
Spielberg and Hanks with this and then followed up with the miniseries Band of Brothers and The Pacific basically reinvented what a depiction of war should look like on film.