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The Academy didn't get it wrong. American media has a heavy stake in propagating the mafia mystique and the Academy is really just a big advertising firm for Hollywood. American filmmakers brought us "The Godfather" trilogy, "Goodfellas", "The Sopranos", and the like. True, these are stories about American criminals as opposed to Italian, but the propaganda is the same: mobsters may be cruel, but they're people, too, just like you and me, if not more interesting people. So again, the Academy didn't get it wrong. They know where their bread is buttered and it's not in deconstructing the mafia hero myth.