Mediocrity Elevated, Bamboozled Ignored
Here's a pretty old legacy post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 23 years ago, in 2001, on the World Wide Web.
Salon’s complete list of this year’s Oscar winners poses the musical question: Why in God’s name did Gladiator win Best Picture?! In actuality, Best Picture should have been Spike Lee’s Bamboozled, but, well, the Spike Lee
bit will tell you why it wasn’t even nominated…