On the contrary, Avatar has a very strong anti-imperialism message.

Movies dealing with war and showing the political angle have also been made, but didn’t receive the recognition they deserved, for obvious reasons – Syriana.

A nominee this year which delved deep into the social angle of a conflict along with the the razzmatazz of an action movie but didn’t win the award – District 9 – possibly because it didn’t deal directly with an issue central to america.

At the end of the day, we tend to forget that the academy awards is from an academy which is AMERICAN through and through (quite naturally) and as such it recognizes movies which appease its largest stakeholders – the yanks of the yoonited states.

Even with Slumdog, people were saying how India in being misrepresented. How Danny Boyle should have also shown Gurgaon Malls and Goa Beaches. Hello, the director was not making a documentary about India. He was telling a story.

Same here. There will be other directors, and believe me a lot more material filmed about the Iraq war giving all types of ‘balanced’ viewpoints. The Hurt Locker told a unique story which doesn’t come around very often.

I am happy with that. It deserves its Oscars.