Highway Robbery at the Oscars

Rating: 10/10 (2 January 2006)

The past is prologue. Leonardo DiCaprio gave a tour-de-force performance as Howard Hughes. Martin Scorcese did his best direction since Goodfellas or Casino. Yet AMPAS again refused to reward the best and the brightest. One wonders how these voters could overlook such marvelous work by a leading actor and one of our two greatest living directors. Seems like a waste of good money for the Academy to send out screeners when it is apparent that their members are not watching them. Once again we see voting based on who knows who and not who knew how. No wonder Billy Crystal and Chris Rock don't want to do the Oscars again. No wonder I don't watch them anymore.