As Academy Awards Approach, a Nod to Cate Blanchett
This year’s nominees include repurposed products, beautiful people pretending to be otherwise, and old pros getting their licks in. Oh, and Steven Spielberg at his most maudlin.

In 2018, the A.V. Club, the pop-culture arm of the satirical website the Onion, published, “Do The Wrong Thing: 90 years, 90 Movies That Should Have Been Nominated for Best Picture,” an article enumerating just how consistently the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been off in its bestowal of honors. For cineastes who watch the Oscars with a modicum of skepticism, a degree of curiosity, and a potent libation or two, an accounting of the Academy’s missteps can prompt some righteous indignation.
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