This winning best picture over Star Wars

Disagree. Star Wars is a brilliant fantasy film which spawned a thousand imitators and changed the landscape of film, arguably for the worse with the summer blockbuster/ toyetic thing. However, it also gave us a lot in terms of creativity and charm.

Annie Hall, nevertheless, had a significant impact on film and remains a stunning, challenging, insightful film which reveals so much about people and relationships, the mind, love, loss, and human psychological states...it seems to me to have neverending depth in its profundity. It, too, created imitators and spawned some positive and negative effects. Through Annie Hall we got When Harry Met Sally and arguably altered the state of the rom-com.

So, they each are great at doing what they do; they each have imitators, good and bad; and they each changed the course of films.

Star Wars has more of a place in the zeitgeist, no doubt about that, but Annie Hall has the cannier insights and cleverer script. Annie Hall also has, for the large part, more nuanced performances. Each have intriguing direction.

It being impossible to gauge cultural impact, we can't fault an award ceremony for skipping that part. And, arguably, a meme can have more cultural impact than, say, an anthology of poetry - is the poetry less artistic? Most would argue "no".

The last word, for me, is that Star Wars is one of the perfectest sci-fi-fantasy adventure stories of all time, and Annie Hall is one of the most profound, comic art pieces on love and life. They each accomplish what they set out to do in an exemplary way. It's hard to compare apples and oranges, but if I personally had to choose, I'd vote for Annie Hall. It's artistry is just a notch over, for my money. I understand why Star Wars is a great film, too, but this couldn't have been easy for voters and Annie Hall's win is certainly no "crime".