Can’t say we disagree with with him.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – When award-winning director Norman Jewison, whose hits range from “In the Heat of the Night” to “Moonstruck,” talks about Hollywood today, he does so with a fondness for an industry he sees as an integral part of the world.

But there is one ingredient Jewison says is now missing from U.S.-made motion pictures, which was not always the case. He says the art in filmmaking is mostly gone even in some of the so-called “independent” films from studio divisions.

“Art missing — a lot of it,” he told Reuters recently. “When you look back 15 years at any type of awards that are given, you will find that there are very few major Hollywood films honored. I don’t know how to change that.”