The Hurt Locker

I think this is the turning point for the Academy. The lowest box office performer of the Best Picture winners in decades, The Hurt Locker was the Academy simply turning its back on box office performance as part of its calculation, perhaps even going in the exact opposite direction. It’s ironically also the winner of the year after The Dark Knight‘s failure to even gain a nomination ignited a change in Academy rules to increase the nominees to up to ten. Perhaps the vote was widely split am...