OMD's Pop-culture corner: Caring about the Oscars in spite of their irrelevance - http://ift.tt/1B39ASb Whiplash wasn’t nominated for every award? How dare you. With the Oscar nominations fresh in our collective consciousness, initial feelings of indignation stirred before the fact that the Academy Awards are at least two full decades into being widely regarded (at the very least within critical circles, but it seems as though this goes much further) as not actually recognizing the best that the medium of film has to offer. This year’s glaring snubs–The Lego Movie not getting a Best Animated Feature nomination, the glaring lack of nominations for Whiplash and Selma, which both found themselves at or near the top of most critics’ year-end lists–echo what has happened in years past. The films that end up winning hardware *cough* Crash *cough* are either laughed at or soon forgotten while the o

OMD's Pop-culture corner: Caring about the Oscars in spite of their irrelevance - http://ift.tt/1B39ASb Whiplash wasn’t nominated for every award? How dare you. With the Oscar nominations fresh in our collective consciousness, initial feelings of indignation stirred before the fact that the Academy Awards are at least two full decades into being widely regarded (at the very least within critical circles, but it seems as though this goes much further) as not actually recognizing the best that the medium of film has to offer. This year’s glaring snubs–The Lego Movie not getting a Best Animated Feature nomination, the glaring lack of nominations for Whiplash and Selma, which both found themselves at or near the top of most critics’ year-end lists–echo what has happened in years past. The films that end up winning hardware *cough* Crash *cough* are either laughed at or soon forgotten while the o