The Academy picks 'heart over head,' writes Richard Corliss
(NEWSER) - Spoiler alert: The Oscars are over, and The King’s Speech has won Best Picture. Why? Because "in Oscar voting, as in old Hollywood weepies, sentiment trumps sense," writes Richard Corliss in Time . Critics may have loved The Social Network, but not a single one of them is a voting member of the Academy—but plenty of Hollywood guild members are. And in the last two weeks, the Producers Guild, Screen Actors Guild, and Directors Guild all gave The King’s Speech their top award. The first two have prefigured the Best Picture Oscar about 50% of the time in recent years; the DGA has done so 82% of the time in the last 61 years. More»
