The Oscar race is just like the presidential race. Except for the fact that one involves pictures on a screen and the other a leader of the free world; one is decided by a few thousand people who've been hanging around for Hollywood for a while and the other by 300 million American citizens who have fought wars and pay taxes; and one involves hundreds of millions of dollars in media spending and the other some newspaper and trade ads, really, apart from that, they're exactly the same. Of course... read more
