See, the problem with the Oscars

is that they try to decide what the Best movies and actors are before the films and performances have undergone the test of time.  We really won't know what the best movie of 2009 was until around 2019,  at least.  For example, if the vote was held today, would Dance With Wolves still be considered a better film than Goodfellas?  Does anybody really think that Star Wars was not the best movie made in 1977?

According to the Academy, Annie Hall was the best film of 1977.  Which probably was a reasonable choice from the perspective of somebody who had no possible way of knowing that a shitload of people would still be Star Wars fans 32 years later.

I'm also not sure that Forrest Gump was better than Pulp Fiction (1994),  or that The English Patient was superior to Fargo (1996).  And I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that if given the choice most of us would rather view 1979's Apocolpsyse Now than Kramer vs. Kramer...