The Academy Awards, or better known as the Oscars have been honoring excellence in cinema for almost 86 years now and thanks to it, the audience have been able to get acquainted not just with some wonderful cinema but also with some extraordinary people who have weaved magic through the viewfinder for decades now.
If one is to study the movies that have had the honor of being nominated over the years, we find that each decade followed certain theme which would define not just the mentality and attitude of the audience but also highlighted these changes in context to towards cinema.