“Avatar” didn’t win the best picture Oscar because there was something wrong with it. It lost because there was everything right with it — just not from the Hollywood point of view.

Hollywood likes movies it can reproduce. This is the same way that auto manufacturers like cars they can make themselves. But they have no chance at all of reproducing a top-of-the-line Lamborghini and thus don’t like them except maybe for their personal midlife crises.

It’s the same thing with “Avatar” and the movie that won, “The Hurt Locker.” There is no one in Hollywood other than James Cameron who can spend 10 years and $350 million to create an emotional and technological masterpiece, a landmark movie. But there are thousands of producers who can churn out $11 million movies about a handful of guys messing around in the mud disarming bombs and griping. Just take any cop show and move it to Afghanistan. Send the cast of “NCIS: LA.” They can do it right now. Book the flight.

If anyone other than Cameron creates an “Avatar” at some point in the future, it won’t be anyone currently in Hollywood. It will be someone who right now is a 17-year-old kid locked in his room in the darkness surrounded by graphics programs and thrash metal. Hollywood can’t reproduce him, either.