How do you decide if a movie is good or worth seeing? Based off of the previews, how Roger Ebert rates it, by what a friend told you or maybe you simply see what you like. But for many, the award season dictates the box office’s success.
And the Oscar for most effective career suicide goes to (dramatic pause; presenter fumbles with envelope): "Bowling for Columbine" filmmaker Michael Moore.
It is two years after the millennium and countless years into the "future," but when it comes to choosing performances that represent how much society has evolved, the Academy Awards (celebrating its 74th birthday on March 24) are still stuck in the past (think 1950s past).