That giantess Nicole Kidman's got nothing on…well, nevermind.

In a stroke of victory for Shortpeople everywhere, Reese Witherspoon won Best Actress at the Academy Awards last night. Yay! Actually, I am actually familiar with and of favorable opinion towards three of the winners in acting—I love Rachel Weisz and George Clooney too, but know nothing about the guy from Capote. Anyway, The Disney-obsessed One thinks that movies few people have seen or even heard about should not win Oscars. I think really popular movies have already won monetary awards. The Academy is right to honor movies that use art to draw emotion from an audience, to present an idea in a unique way. Recycled, bathetic plots sell tickets but do not deserve recognition for being The Best Picture. For example, Titanic should never have won Best Picture. Sure, the special effects were huge, but the tired beautiful-caged-bird-rich-girl with rich-jerk-boyfriend/fiancé falls for poor-starving-artist then girl-and-artist-face-the-elements-together before/during/after a passionate session of kissing/screwing story is so old! People enjoy the predictable escape of watching it (come on, everyone knew the boat would sink before they entered the theater!), but Titanic did nothing remotely original with the paperback-romance plot, nor did DiCaprio have enough acting ability to create any believable chemistry with Winslet. Big-budget junk movies are like junk food: they are pleasurable, but they are not worth the formal accolades of a complex masterpiece.