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I dunno. I think none of the movies I liked got nominated or anything.

That's because you actually have to go to the movies for that to happen.

I went to the movies. But none of the nominees are at all familiar to me.

I went to the movies. But none of the nominees are at all familiar to me.

ps, your anti-spam comment filter thingie takes a long time to reload.

You're making assumptions, as of now....and you don't wanna call Mptions an ass again.

Maybe Superman Returns will get a bunch of nominations -- probably not, but who knows?

p.s. spam is at an all time high, forcing my filter to be a dick.

whatever. everyone hates me anyway.

Haha... poor Mptions. But that was Julie, actually. ;)

I was just being lame because I saw your post and it was late and hence no noms. Though I tend not to be on speaking terms with oscar-bait, so there you go.

CHILDREN OF MEN should be in the Best Picture category. That, to me, is the biggest so-called disappointment. (I don't care that much about the awards, but hey.) At the very least Best Director. Stunning what Cuaron does in this movie. I have seen it twice now, and love it.

I'm really glad Ryan Gosling got in for Best Actor. He deserves it, and this was a little bitty movie he did it in. This movie I also went to see a second time. I get pretty geeky about it. Pretty cool about Wahlberg too. I somehow love seeing him be the one from that movie walking with an Actor nod. He's killer in THE DEPARTED.

I am almost done seeing most of the nominated films though there are a few I am deciding not to see. So far, I like who they nominated...

It seems like every year, the Best Actress category is difficult to decide on...

I am glad that THE QUEEN was nominated for Best Picture though I don't know if it will win against the three heavy dramas in that same category. I saw Golden Globe winner, Peter Morgan at a Q&A for THE QUEEN with more insight on his screenplay. I am shocked to see LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE to get a nomination for Best Picture because it's a comedy...

THE DEPARTED, BLUE DIAMOND and LITTLE CHILDREN were films I enjoyed. NOTES OF A SCANDAL, last night, I fell asleep to...

It would be so sweet if Jennifer Hudson wins an Oscar for her role on DREAMGIRLS. It would make my disapointment saved when not enough votes could not save her from AMERICAN IDOL. But, it seems good things come when you least expect it...

Looking forward which one will win for Best Documentary as 4 out of the 5 I saw were really good!

OSCAR NOMINATIONS:
http://www.oscars.org/79academyawards/noms.html

Whaddaya know, Superman actually DID get one nomination!

DiCaprio for Blood Diamond is the really odd one for me. "In America, it's bling-bling; here, it's bling BANG" is one of the worst lines with one of the worst delivery of 2006. But he won't win.

Children of Men ought to be a shoo-in for cinematography.

Animation category remains as clueless and kiddified as ever.

I just tried to say "Adam Sandler's Oscar nominated film Click." out loud and it gave me a migraine.

Less for Borat than I expected. Do they not do a comedy category anymore? Something about that nags at me. Every list I find seems too small, though. Also surprised by animated--every kid movie that made its money back, and then only three.

I suppose this is the wrong crowd for it, but I was mildly surprised that the documentaries seemed so monolithically lefty/navel-gazing--2 on Iraq, 2 on the church, and 1 on global warming. What, nothing in the world but the religous right, Iraq war, and global warming matters?

Actually, I liked An Inconvenient Truth, and think it deserves it. So I don't mean that as much. But the other four seem awful concentrated for all the documentaries in the world. I'd just imagine there'd be something fascinating going on somewhere that doesn't tie in to the 2008 US Presidential Election.

On the docs question -- it's more of a representative sample. There are right-wing docs out there, but many of them are pretty badly made.

Deliver Us From Evil actually got the case it discussed moving forward, so it's a no-brainer. Inconvenient Truth was the top-grossing doc, and definitely the most talked-about, so also a no-brainer (although sometimes these can be weird -- Roger & Me was not nominated back in the day).

Jesus Camp got a huge boost because of Ted Haggard. But remember, the conservative Christian woman who runs Jesus Camp approved of the film, and didn't see it as anti-religious.

As for Iraq war docs -- there were probably more of them than there were any other kind of movie this year. I'm not kidding; most critics I know have gotten sick of them, but still, you can't deny that they represent something significant and ongoing. So given just the numbers game, that was inevitable too.

My personal fave doc, though, was Shakespeare Behind Bars, and it didn't get nominated. Though I suppose one could say that because it's about prisoners occasionally doing something fun, that makes it lefty. Documentaries do tend, as a whole, to expose some kind of suffering you've never heard about.

I'd just imagine there'd be something fascinating going on somewhere that doesn't tie in to the 2008 US Presidential Election.

Likewise, there are probably many fascinating movies released in other countries and languages that we never hear about.

What's most amazing is that none of the nominees is about the Holocaust.

Eh, I guess I don't really care about the lefty/righty thingy, and the numbers do stack up. Interesting about Deliver us from Evil. Still, it seems to me like there should be something on the wool trade in Kashmir, or something. I am super sick of politics, though, so there you go.

I'm sure there are critics who feel "Darwin's Nightmare" was snubbed. That was about a new predator fish destroying an African ecosystem. You could argue that environmentalism is inherently liberal, though An Inconvenient Truth tries to argue that it isn't, ironically by having Al Gore talk.

Then of course there was "Fuck." Funny film, but you knew it wouldn't get best doc.

I thought Inconvenient Truth managed to be nonpatisan with its long Al Gore montages. They managed to make it personal, even if they seemed goofy at times.

nonpartisan except for one of the first lines Al Gore said: "Hi, I'm your ex-president" or something to that effect.

The line is "I used to be the next president of the United States."

Not exactly partisan...it's a self-deprecating joke at what was thought to have been the inevitability of his election.