Hollywood is greedy. Period. They no longer understand that the money will come AFTER they make a GREAT movie. Instead, they're so focused on the money, they forget to make a great movie.

If only storytelling was about the cool things the camera can do.

If you have to explain a point in your movie after it's come out, then you didn't communicate your point correctly in the movie.

It's one of the few films in which every part is excellent: the script, the acting, the story, the direction, the editing. That's why it one Oscars for both its acting leads, the director, the script and the movie itself. Few films, especially today, excel in even one of those areas. Silence of the Lambs excelled in all of them.

China steals American IP, cheated extensively at the Beijing Olympics, mistreats and sometimes murders millions of its people and may have purposely created a virus that killed millions worldwide.

The only reason the US and other countries kiss China's ass is because of money. That says a lot about the world we live in.

So by your logical the overwhelmingly white and male winners are ALL worthy artists and the much smaller number of non-white and non-male winners are ALL unworthy artists.

There's a name for thinking like that and it ends in -ist.