Please do, some substance to your argument would be greatly appreciated.
OK. So your really bad idea is that we might not give out best actor awards some year and might give out multiple another year. I assume you aren't so naive as to think this only applies to actors, so it clearly gets expanded to the entire set of awards. I'm sure, given your extremely well-thought-out idea, that you're familiar with how both the nomination and final vote works right? So the first reason the idea is complete nonsense is that the entire system for deciding the short list would have to be thrown out the window. What would you like the ballot to look like exactly?
What you are asking is for a group of actors to collectively somehow indicate that none of their peers did a good enough job to warrant recognition. That will never happen. Then you've got to come up with some system where the group of actors can somehow indicate the specific list of people who ought to win the award. "Indicate who you think did the best job this year. Rank your preferences from 1-5. Now of those preferences, indicate which people deserve an Oscar vs which people just happened to have done an above average job in a year when you and all of your colleagues just kind of sucked it up." Similarly, I'm sure you've got some great ideas on the final ballot, too.
And clearly this is objective right? It's not like the academy members who vote on actors will all have really different ideas about what's Oscar-worthy, right?
Now go on and start coming up with how you'd like the ceremony to work. "Here are the nominees for best actor. There are none." "Here are the nominees for best director. There are only 3 and all of them win the oscar."
Or maybe you are smart enough to realize that just being nominated is a huge career boon. So maybe it works like this "Here are the nominees for best actor. Daniel Day Lewis for xxx, Ryan Gosling for yyy. Edward Norton for zzz. And the winner is... no one. None of you were good enough."
Thoughts?
Of course, there's also the fact that we are basing this entire idea on what a random dude on the internet thinks, seemingly without having any idea what it's like to be an actor. No doubt some years, no one really did a great job at this job because it's easy to do what they do and unless they are truly exceptional, their own peers shouldn't be awarding them anything, right?