Award Chatter: Giving Oscar a Do-Over

How often have you shaken your fist at the screen in anger when the Academy gives a statue to the wrong movie? Burt Reynolds had to restrain himself from doing it at the 1998 Academy Awards, and now Time has joined him.

It’s a fanciful piece about taking the Oscars away from everybody who won in the big five categories in that Titanic year (Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt in As Good As It Gets for Best Actor and Actress, Robin Williams for Good Will Hunting and Kim Basinger for L.A. Confidential for Best Supporting) and giving them to those many believed to be robbed: Reynolds and Julianne Moore of Boogie Nights for Best Supporting, Peter Fonda of Ulee’s Gold and Helena Bonham Carter of The Wings of the Dove for Best Actor and Actress, and L.A. Confidential for Best Picture.

It’s a fun thing to think about (although likely not for the actual winners), and I’m sure people would like to do the same thing for Crash, often referred to as the Worst Best Picture ever. What say you? Agree, disagree, leave well enough alone, have your own suggestions?