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    When picking an Oscars best picture, shouldn't you vote for one you'd watch again?

    by Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times Feb 14, 2019 4 minutes

    As with Congress, we know the Academy Awards to be an important and quintessentially American institution because everyone loves to complain about how absurd, ineffectual and meaningless they are until any type of change is suggested or, God forbid, implemented.

    Then the outrage rises to volumes loud enough to be heard at the rebel base on red-velvet-cake planet Crait.

    No doubt the entire "Star Wars" universe reverberated with the displeasure voiced over the film academy's proposal last year to introduce a new category for outstanding achievement in popular film. WWWHHHHAAAATTTT??? came the collective roar.

    Was the academy trying to dumb down the Oscars? Ghettoize films like "Black

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