The Great Beauty won the Oscar while Mullholland Drive has not

The Great Beauty, the italian film by Paolo Sorrentino has been awarded by foreign language Oscar i.e. Academy Award. Personally I did not like the movie. I found it lacking in content, poor in acting, but the film was honored with an Oscar.

The Plot

Journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and social circles, but when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from... continue
Certainly, the film is evocative, excellent photography, superb soundtrack. But is this enough for a movie to make it win an Oscar? I'm not sure!

I came recently across the picture below

I cannot stop thinking about how great this film is. Mulholland Drive. Definitely one of the most beautiful and intense movie in the history of Cinema.

Well Mulholland Drive did not win the Oscar, while The Great Beauty yes!

You decide! I can only leave you with the official trailers of both Movies

The Great Beauty

Mulholland Drive