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For Your Consideration: The 50 Most Despicable Oscar Snubs of the 2000s: [link]
I agree with John Cameron Mitchell (I mean WTF does a man have to do????), Buscemi and Johansson for Ghost World, In the Mood for Love for Best Foreign Film, Uma for Kill Bill, and WALL-E for Best Picture (it was the best film of 08). I would also add Joseph Gordon-Levitt for Mysterious Skin. He broke me so hard in that movie.
ETA: Also agree with Mulholland Drive for Best Picture. Loved that movie!
Sasha Baron Cohen for Borat? Come on. Crack.
Children of Men didn't get any Oscar nominations. It should have at the least gotten a cinematography nod.
edit: that's Children, not City. Duh.
Wasn't Children of Men up for something? I thought it did get a nod for Cinematography.
ETA: It got 3. Cinematography, Adapted Screenplay, and Editing.
I loved both City of God and Children of Men and I get those titles mixed up all of the time.
I have been mainlining movies what with the new gig.
2 I most def recommend-Pontypool & Allegro Non Troppo.
The first is a smart semi-zombie dark humor thing (I say semi-zombie, because they are not, in fact reanimated dead people, and I found it humorous though I can see where someone else might not)
The second is the anti-Fantasia and is going in my top 5.
Allegro Non Troppo
Love that!! I fear I can never watch it again, because the episode with the kitten broke me when I saw it.
2012 is 158 minutes long? Holy crap.
And Danny Glover plays the President? Do these people have no sense of irony?
Killer frost, Dana. Does that answer your question?