I cannot believe u guys loosing ur sleep over this.
No matter what you say and think, Academy award is NOT the finest out there. It has and always will be commercial and political. There are many Indie awards that are producing better results over choosing real talents and authentic movies, not over hyped and overly bloated budget movies. To name few, Sundance, Triveca and many others.
Come on, Jamie Fox got an award. For what, just being black....Don Cheda (Hotel Rwanda) deserved it more then Jamie Fox that year.Even these people can get the awards as long as it is a controversial subject -Dolph Lundern, Van Damme, Jackie Chan and Chuck Norris. Surprisingly Leonardo DeCaprio has never won one and he gets nominated almost every other year.
Just getting Academy award does not mean instant success, just ask Cuba Gooding Jr. That dude has not made a single good movies for decades now. The same fate might happen to Forest Whittaker and Denzel.
Real movie conesseur in the US do not watch Academy Award to pick their choices. Besides few MTV kids who seriously take those awards, I'm surprised our own Nepalis fellas getting pumped up over it. But again, we probably watch Miss America every year, which in one of the least watched award show in the US, rumored to be dropped from live show because of the poor ratings. Real Americans do not care about Miss America, but Victoria Secret....hell yea.