Toni Collette and Haley Joel Osment were robbed.

although several of the awards absolutely befuddle me,they are NOT a consensus forum,where a committee meets and decides,say,like a film critics award or the Pulitzers..the voting is secret ballot and comes from a wide range of crafts..sometimes hype or momentum wins out,sometimes a "message" film bullies them,and sometimes its sentimentality..but youre right,they do at least try to catch up..newman for the color of money,pacino for scent of a woman and denzel for training day were all,catch-up Oscars,and that's not particularly a bad thing..more times than not not,they get it right..over a dozen black performers since 1989,small independent films nominated for best picture,,young directors without influence getting nominations,foriegn directors like cuaron and inarittu winning the award,etc..theyre certainly not above reproach,but they do try to get it right,and theyre choices are no worse than golden globes,the brits,independent spirit,etc..

Academy usually gets it wrong and has to repay an actor years later in an honorary Oscar, which ends up shafting other performers, and the cycle continues.

Good Morning Hecate -
The OP was confused and corrected her original post. The movie was not mean girls which was a teenager comedy but Girl Interrupted, a movie she mentioned she never even saw. GI was about girls in a mental hospital in the '60s.