who will likely win, who should win, and who barely deserves to be there
- Written by Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
We’ve probably all had a moment when we stopped taking the Oscars too seriously. For me, it was when Denzel Washington won best actor for Training Day (2001), a crime film in which he displays virtually none of his acting chops.
And as popular cinema becomes uglier (it’s mostly shot on digital video now, which almost never looks as good...