The Academy Awards

The Academy Awards are kind of stupid. I used to be really into them when I was younger, but as each new year brought a set of movies I had never seen or didn't care about, I stopped watching the show.

Recently the nominations for the different categories were released, and it has to be the worst selection of movies I've ever seen. The category I want to pick on the most (along with countless others) is "Best Motion Picture of the Year".

Now I don't know about the rest of you, but with a title like "Best Motion Picture of the Year" I would assume that the movies selected where, you know, watched... So I headed over to boxofficemojo.com to see where the five movies where in the overall sales ranking of last year (domestic), and here it is:

22. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - $104,388,850
62. Slumdog Millionaire - $44,711,799
111. Milk - $20,655,400
145. Frost/Nixon - $8,888,701
148. The Reader - $8,061,851

I guess that would explain why I've never heard of most of the list of movies. It's amazing that combined, they would only come to a total gross of $186,706,601 which would put them at 7th on the list overall. I know that sales aren't everything for the artistic style of a movie and all that, but to have a title like "Best Motion Picture of the Year", you would at least think that the movies did somewhat better than that.

So what I want to do, for the fun of it, is have our own little show down for "Best Motion Picture of the Year". Here is how it will work, I will post 8 movies from the top 8 domestic box off gross, you just select what order you think the movies belong in. You don't have to do all 8, I will average out the points over the other titles not selected. You just tell me what title is number 1, number 2, etc. I will post the list next Friday (January 30th). We will do it in several round each Friday and have the winner on February 20th. You can feel free to email me or Heidi your list if you would rather not post it.