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It’s finally over. We mean both the Oscar telecast, which ran as long as Gone With the Wind(though with fewer important roles for African Americans), and the three-month death march of critics’ citations, guild(行业) awards and expert opinions on who’d win. In case you nodded off, Birdman took Best Picture and Director, and the acting prizes went to Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything. Julianne Moore for Still Alice, J.K. Simmons for Whiplash and Patricia Arquette for Boyhood--four folks whom most people know from the speeches they gave, not the movies they were in.

This year, the only big hit among the eight Best Picture finals was American Sniper. The other seven were art-house films. You see, there is Hollywood, which makes movies the whole world watches, and there is off-Hollywood, which hatches the films that get Oscars. Somebody has to ask: Why does Hollywood hate what it does for a living?

It can be as simple as “films” are great and “movies” are rubbish. On the Rotten Tomatoes website, which shows the reviews of dozens of critics. Birdman pulled a 93 rating(out of 100) and The Imitation Game an 89. But some popular hits also scored with the critics: 91 for Guardians of the Galaxy, 89 for Captain America: The Winter Soldier, 88 for Gone Girl and a dramatic 96 for The Lego Movie. Audiences liked these four films too, paying more than 51 billion to see them in North American theaters(plus another 1.3 billion dollars abroad).

So why weren’t at least a couple of these films nominated for Best Pictures? Maybe simply because they were popular. They got their awards as cash prizes, not Oscar statuettes. The Oscar winners have become a category of little films about big diseases. Another disconnect between Oscar voters and moviegoers: ages. The average age of the 6.7000 Academy members is about 60, and they see most of the nominated films on screeners at home. Basically, they want movies to be television: educating, intimate dramas. The stories they respond to are not of youngsters on grand quests--the action film--but of unsung heroes battling weakness and approaching death.

The very first Oscar party, in 1929, had two Best Picture categories: one for “outstanding picture” (William Wellman’s spectacle Wings), the other for “unique and artistic picture” (E.W Mumau’s masterpiece Sunrise). Maybe the Academy, obsessed with indie(*制片的) artistry, should return to the double award. Then Avatar could win along with The Hurt Locker, and Gravity with 12 Years a Slave, even the new Star Wars might have a shot.

63. It can be inferred from the last sentence of Paragraph 1 that______.

A. not many people saw the four films.

B. the four films won the awards as expected.

C. awards shouldn’t be given to the four people.

D. the four actors and actresses made great speeches.

64. Why does the author mention these films in Paragraph 2?

A. To illustrate the great films that are worth watching.

B. To explain why some films are given a higher score than others.

C. To illustrate there are films welcomed by both viewers and critics.

D. To highlight the importance of turning to critics’ reviews when choosing films.

65. Which of the following statements is the author most likely to agree with?

A. Less emphasis should be given to moviegoers’ opinions about films.