Should Oscar winners be decided by that branch as opposed to

You’ve been asking great questions lately. I wouldn’t mind if they did this for tech categories. What do actors or writers know about sound editing?

I've been an advocate for this for a long time. At least the techs should be decided by the branches. If it was me, I would let the entire membership vote for Best Picture and acting awards only (yes, even Director and Screenplay should be a branch thing only), but but that's just me.

If I'm not mistaken, weren't BAFTA's decided via that method at one point?

I'd be fully behind this, almost across the board.

Perhaps only Picture, Foreign, Doc, Animated and Shorts should be open to all voters.

As much as we (justifiably) shit on the editing of this film, I still think it was a hell of an accomplishment to stitch something even remotely watchable given the hellish production. Yes, we like to throw that cafe scene at the wall as one of the worst moments in cinema history, and John Ottman himself even acknowledges it as a bad scene, but given what he had to work with, it's kind of a miracle it even came together at all. So while I'm not thrilled by any means at the finished product, I think he had a taller order to fill than a lot of editors do.

seems pretty elitist

Then she needs to prove it to us.

But not sound editing.

the elite of the already elite is just the elite