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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Movie Flame - (nf)
Message-ID: <2310@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Jul-84 22:35:38 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  6 22:35:38 1984
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In article <5100030@uok.UUCP> dwhitney@uok.UUCP writes:
>... Academy.  (the black-tie folks who hand out the little gold statues)
>
>Here's to entertainment.
>David Whitney

The people who decide on the Academy Awards are not some ubiquitous
group of "black-tie folks."  They are the film-makers.  They are the
actors, directors, etc.  They all vote for the nominees, and then the
members of each sub-group vote for the winners (i.e. directors vote for
best director, actors and actresses vote for best actor and actress,
etc.)  The Academy Awards are not handed out to tell you or anyone else
what you should or should not watch.  It is the members of a set of
professions deciding who among them did the best job at what they all
do.  Most professions do this: in CS we have things like the Turing
Award; it is not given out to the guy who wrote the most "popular"
program, it is given out to the best computer scientist (in some sense).
-- 
    Barry Margolin
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