Some important, serious people, who had forged successful careers in Hollywood, sat in a room and tried to work out which was better out of the song ‘The Age of Not Believing’ and the theme from Shaft. They were willing to give that a go. They didn’t insist that neither is better and that the notion that such works of art can be reduced to the quantifiable level of the 100-metre sprint is so contemptuous of the noble endeavours of composing music and writing scripts and directing and acting that it’s completely counterproductive to the whole aim of the Oscars ceremony. You might as well ask
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