Originally Posted by
baby doll
That seems less like a "fair world" than a dictatorship of the fanboy. The point of the Oscars isn't that it tells us what the best film of the year is (my personal picks for those years would be Barry Lyndon, Cet obscur objet du désir, Too Early/Too Late, The Draughtsman's Contract, and Distant Voices, Still Lives), but what the American film industry thinks is the best film of the year, and science fiction and fantasy movies are generally out of the running because, as a genre, it lacks the necessary literary prestige (The Lord of the Rings is something of a limit case in terms of the Academy's willingness to acknowledge fantasy writing as a thing that exists, which is not to say that Tolkien is necessarily a superior writer to Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, or Richard Matheson).