I don't think Woody Allen has attended in some time, if ever, so that there is a couple writing awards and a directing award.

Wasn't he on that FX show Tilt about Poker? He's just got that great blue collar face and forehead like a drive-in movie, makes him a natural casting choice for stevedores, cops abusing their power and palookas in general.

And I don't necessarily disagree with that, but there is a precedent for breakthroughs. I think Olivier won an Oscar for bringing Hamlet to the screen, and the original Toy Story team got something for being the first feature-length animated movie done via computer.

I'd be fine with the occasional "special excellence" award for a particularly great or interesting role. Like Scarlet Johansson in Her.

I guess a lot of that hypothetical depends on your willingness to indulge in conspiracy theories.

Pretty sure the look of surprise was directly correlated to how much of a shit movie Crash was. And he's a 3 time Oscar winner himself, so perhaps that obvious lapse in judgment was throwing his own victories into doubt.

Well Amy Adams was the odds-on favorite for awhile and got shafted, and Huppert was the dark horse of the candidates, so any way ya sliced it some ginger broad was walking away with the hardware.

I think Hot Chocolate's "Every1's a Winner" is the obvious go-to there.

Yeah, I got to the end of my post and realized the person to whom I'm responding maybe didn't mean it as literally as I seem to be taking it.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but expanding your premise to actual implementation I think would be very difficult.

Messing up names is what Clyde Darrow is all about!

C'mon Kyle Griffin, his name is David Oyelowo, that movie he was in is Selma!

Right? I thought there was going to be something resembling a point to this and then…it just ended.

This is pretty much word for word how I played it in my head while watching. But, you know, 2017, give people an inch of a scandal and it's up to 3 different conspiracy theories before breakfast.

I would have loved if the Taco Bell Bell took it down.

It's the downbeat ending it created for itself!

Obituary spends 30 weeks on New York Times bestseller list.

I didn't know Thomas Pynchon comments on AV Club boards!

That was my reaction! Seen it 50 times, but it's going to leave (and I hadn't even known it was on there)? Watch again!

I was fully expecting Syd not to exist until Melanie spoke to her directly and she woke up Ptonomy and all that.