The most important events in cinema world is Oscar Film Festival
To report the guardian Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to win the best director Oscar, for The Hurt Locker in 2010. Photograph: Jason Merritt/Getty Images.There are only two things you really need to know about the Academy Awards: that Citizen Kane didn't win the Oscar for best picture, and that Driving Miss Daisy did.As we approach the 86th Academy Awards, it's worth remembering those two sobering facts, which perfectly encapsulate the inherent foolishness of gong ceremonies in general, and the Oscars in particular. Ask any film fan how seriously you should take the Academy Awards, and chances are they will point you toward the best director category, where the roll call of winners signally omits Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Howard Hawks, Stanley Kubrick, Jane Campion, David Lynch, Spike Lee and (most famously) Alfred Hitchcock – something that seems to suggest that, over the years, Oscar voters (whose average age is about 142) haven't been the best judges of cinematic brillianceEven when they get it right, it's often for the wrong reason – or film. Having been overlooked for decades, Martin Scorsese finally earned a best director statuette at the 79th Academy Awards for The Departed – a decent film, sure enough, but hardly on a par with Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull or Goodfellas, all of which had earned him umpteen international trophies (Baftas, Cannes awards etc) while leaving him beaten to the punch at the Oscars. When he finally got up on the stage to receive his award for The Departed, Scorsese's first comment was."
