Early Morning Elitism

I don't want to be one of those "gun-jumpin" journalists, but it looks like the Academy Awards nominations are up (via a list on Yahoo news). Very few surprises, ladies and gentleman. Of course The Dark Knight got shut out of the the three majors: no Best Picture nod, no Best Director nod for Nolan, and no Best Adapted Screenplay nod. Such an affront is reason alone for me to write off the Academy entirely, but you must remember these are the tools who thought Crash was the best picture of, well 2004 specifically but of anytime is retarded. Of course Milk gets a Best Pic nod, wouldn't want those Oscar voters to appear homophobic. Frost/Nixon is there as well, for political reasons because anyone who saw that film knows it is painfully stagy and had the production value of a late '90s TNT original.

When the list is officially announced (by someone other than Yahoo) I will do a complete breakdown. The biggest "surprise" of sorts is all the nominations that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button received. In any event, this year is shaping up to be as lame as the last five or six....actually, last year wasn't too off, but still...