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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has finally acknowledged that its Best Picture Oscar picks have been obtuse and lame.

So it’s shaking things up — by adding a prize for “Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film.”

Apparently, the movies we the people like — “Black Panther,” “Wonder Woman,” “Girls Trip,” “Get Out” — aren’t worthy of consideration for the night’s top honor. Thanks, but no thanks. A popularity prize is idiotic. Film is inherently a popular medium, and many of the most enduring Best Picture winners have achieved both commercial and artistic success, “Casablanca” and “The Godfather” among them. The idea that a movie can’t achieve both is misguided.

Just look at 2017’s “Get Out,” a smart, audacious horror film that grappled with race relations in America, made money and won for Best Original Screenplay. Ditto 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road,” an exhilarating action flick that transcended the clichés of the genre.

Both of these Best Picture nominees were more daring, artistic and of-the-moment than, respectively, “The Shape of Water” and “Spotlight,” the films that beat them.

Does Hollywood think that these popular movies are sullying the Best Picture category? And what exactly does an Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film mean anyway? And will the vote be put to the public, VMA style — or will the stuffy Academy members vote on this Oscar too?

Box office figures aside, we filmgoers don’t always go in for mindless entertainment. Most of us can handle more nuanced, challenging fare — like the beautiful, intimate “Moonlight,” which deservedly won 2017’s Best Picture award.

By creating some kind of consolation prize, the Academy seems to believe it’s showing how in touch it is with popular opinion. Instead, it’s revealing just how elitist, condescending and clueless its members really are.

Here’s an idea: If there’s a big movie that’s popular and also really good, just give it the damn award!