Renowned Cahiers du Cinema writer Jacques Aumont says his Sight and Sound ballot isn’t actually is. An imposter seemed to have taken over and cleverly filled it out.
Basically, Aumont is saying the vote was from someone smart enough to pass for him and that he finds such polls silly, which is why he didn't vote:
I reiterate publicly that, no, the list published under my name by Sight & Sound representing my vote for the 3000 best films of the millennium is not mine: it is the work of a joker, clever enough to have been able to write on my behalf to this venerable institution and pretending to be me — who, as I used to, decided to boycott this referendum, useless and absurd in my eyes.
Aumont’s imposter chose “The Godfather,” “La Haine,” “West of the Tracks,” “Goodbye Lenin,” “Eponine,” “Big Mommas Like Father, Like Son,” “3x3D,” “Little Indian, Big City,” “The Comic Adventures of Max and Leon” and “Les Dents de Ma Mer.”
Sight and Sound doubled the amount of voters for this year’s poll, all for the sake of inclusion. Voter registration went from 846 to 1639 participants for the 2022 edition. Given the vast amount, maybe there was more than just one hijacked ballot.
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