Matt Damon knows something about the Academy Awards, having won an Oscar for writing the screenplay for 'Good Will Hunting' and then never having bothered the selectors ever since. Matt is unhappy about the way in which the voters choose the winners, so he has been telling Parade.com about how the Oscars would work if he were in charge.

Surprisingly he isn't suggesting that the awards themselves have his little pug-face on them, or that only movies with the word 'Bourne' in the title are eligible for nomination. No, his suggestions are much more sensible.

 

"I think that the best way to judge movies is, like, 10 years after they're released. I think they should actually do the awards that way. I think they should have done the Academy Awards this year for movies from 1998. I think it's better to look at a movie and then step back and look at it again. I don't think that the awards necessarily get it right. I think they get it wrong more often than they get it right."

 

So now would be a good time to look at the movies from 1998 and decide who gets the Oscar? I'm sure it's just a massive co-incidence that Matt Damon was nominated in the past for a Best Actor award but failed to win. For 'Good Will Hunting'. In 1998. Maybe Matt is still a little bitter about losing out on the award? How do you like THEM apples, Matt?