Originally posted by: Jumpman
To this day, it's complete BS that Lucas didn't win Best Director and Best Picture for Star Wars back at the Oscars in '78. I'm sorry, has Annie Hall had the cultural impact that Star Wars has?

If someone can give me a complete and logic answer to this question, I'll gladly change my mind....

Annie Hall is a great movie, and probably Woody Allens best, but SW should have won that year. You can always make a case for which movie is better, cause they are both great, but Lucas should have won Best Director, just by the fact of how difficult the movie was to make and it transcended movies back then and even today, isn't that what the category is made for?

The problem with Oscars is they always give it to a director who is overdue at the time, and Lucas was so young then. Look at Scorcese last night, he has made classics like Goodfellas, Taxidriver and Raging Bull, and the Departed gets him his first oscar? That was more of a lifetime award just like Ron Howard won for A Beautiful Mind in 2002 when his best movie was Apollo 13. I have never respected the Oscars since Shakespeare in Love beat out Saving Private Ryan.