Crash told an Academy of largely older, white, affluent voters that, yes, there was a lot of racism in L.A. (a.k.a. 'America'), but they (a.k.a. Academy voters) were doing their best.
If you think of each nominee not in terms of quality but as an allegory for Hollywood and what makes it so wonderful, you don't even need to see the movies to check the right box on your Oscar ballot.
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