Terry Gilliam's Harsh Words For the Academy

In the long term the Academy Awards honestly don't mean much, but regardless for most of those in Hollywood it is still the highest honor they can receive.  Of course you always have detractors especially from the higher brow crowd and those that believe Tarantino and Fincher are the greatest directors of the last twenty years.  However, other significant actors and filmmakers have always expressed their reservation of the awards. George C. Scott famously called them a "meat parade" and skipped the Oscars in which he won for Patton to watch ice hockey.  Woody Allen didn't show up at the ceremony until the 2002 telecast.  Now Terry Gilliam chimes in with his opinion.  Now despite Gilliam's films not being the most easily accessible, his films have constantly been recognized in the crafts and even the acting categories, and was nominated himself for his Brazil screenplay.  There is much truth regarding the Academy Awards being a large
self-congratulatory pow-wow, for the most part you have to be part of their system to be awarded, unless they feel they can be noble by awarding an outsider.  One only has to look at George Clooney's acceptance speech from a few years ago to see how highly these people think about themselves.  At least for me and still makes interesting film history and one night of entertainment.