Bias in newspaper titles/Academy Awards controversy

There has been a lot of controversy lately about the Academy Awards and the recent rise of what journalists are labelling 'Holocaust films'. There has been debate over some films which were not nominated, and some which, apparently, did not deserve to be nominated. The truth is that often many of the films nominated at the Oscars are crap. It's more a popularity contest. I haven't seen Slumdog Millionaire, but no matter how good it was, it did not deserve some eight nominations. Even in the UK I realised that the popularity of the film was majorly over-the-top.
I along with many others are dismayed that WALL-E, probably the best film of 2008, obtained the award for Best Animated Feature (of course) but was not nominated for Best Picture, but of course films made the year before are almost never put in the Oscars. Except for The Dark Knight, but that's because Heath Ledger died and the dead guy always wins something. I also have not seen Gran Torino, but there was supposedly bias there, too, in that it wasn't nominated, supposedly due to controversial subject matter.

As aforementioned, there has been controversy over 'Holocaust films', some of which are not even centring around the Holocaust but do centre around a character belonging to the National Socialist regime. I refer, of course, to The Reader and Valkyrie. There have been a lot of other 'Holocaust films' released recently though: the amazing Die Fälscher/The Counterfeiters, Boy in the Striped Pajamas...the list goes on. In the case of The Reader, there was controversy that the film (which is based on a book, but nobody is told that, [hell I didn't even know until I had to read it for university] and the author of the book was not criticised) that the film 'evokes sympathy' for the main character, who is a reformed KZ guard, and thus supposedly supports Holocaust denial and National Socialist beliefs. What the fuck? I find it very disconcerting that anyone who was alive during that time period, even if they were reformed, is somehow not allowed to have positive feelings directed towards them for fear of supporting the eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil regime.
When Valkyrie (which I have also not seen) was first released over here, the subtitle on the weekly entertainment digest read 'TOM CRUISE COURTS CONTROVERSY IN VALKYRIE' (presumedly the fact that he wears a nazi uniform in the film and looks very nice doing it, despite the fact that his character was not a nazi supporter and, well, the whole film centres around his plot to assassinate Hitler.)
Upon reading the article, there was no controversy mentioned. SURPRISE
OH, but there was a funny quote or two from the interviewees, Tom Cruise and some other guy.

The other guy:

"In school we had a little nazi club..." Of course, the children were too young to know what a nazi was, let alone what they did. They just thought it looked cool. "One day I came home with my own little swastika armband coloured in crayon, and my Jewish mother berated me over the stove...I never made that mistake again"

lulz

Tom Cruise:

When I was younger I watched a lot of WWII films and documentaries. I always thought "Why didn't anyone just shoot Hitler?"

...wait, what?
HITLER WAS LOVED BY THE PEOPLE OF GERMANY UNTIL WORD GOT OUT ABOUT THE GENOCIDE
AND YOU CAN'T JUST ASSASSINATE SOMEONE LIKE THAT
IT'S FUCKING HITLER
HE'S ALWAYS SURROUNDED BY BODYGUARDS AND HALF A PRIVATE ARMY
PLUS GOEBBELS, GÖRING, HIMMLER AND SOME OTHER DUDES


speaking of valkyries, Ride of the Valkyries was in Watchmen. It was disconcerting.
I shall write a full review of the film once I finally finish my Emirates post