In the slew of Oscars think pieces published recently, a trend is apparent—wholly obvious, but not unimportant—towards questioning which films deserve to win. On one hand this is just a slightly more probing way to ask which film should get the gong—as though ‘deserve’ factors in more than taste. Isn’t subjectivity, though, completely inescapable in the evaluation of film? Doesn’t the word ‘deserve’ merely—misguidedly—try and rationalise awards granted for reasons far beyond the nebulous notion of ‘best’?