Every year, when the Oscar nominations are announced, I’m left scratching my head. I swear, I don’t think the committee actually watches all of the movies. How Gran Torino could not be nominated for best movie is absolutely ridiculous. Not only was it one of the best 3 movies of the year, it’s one of the best ever.

I’m also pretty sure they didn’t even watch Eagle Eye, or Shia LaBeouf would have gotten a nod.

The biggest surprise of all, though, is the fact that Clint Eastwood wasn’t nominated for his outstanding performance in Gran Torino. This was this Hollywood legend’s best performance ever and to snub him is so pathetic I’m at a loss for words.

Below is the list of the nominees (in bold is my personal pick and in parentheses are my beefs…for what they’re worth! If there are no words in bold, it only means I don’t much care either way.):

BEST PICTURE
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
(Gran Torino should have been nominated.)

BEST ACTOR
Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
Frank Langella – Frost/Nixon
Sean Penn – Milk
Brad Pitt – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke – The Wrestler
(Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino, should have been nominated and should have won.)

BEST ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie – Changeling
Melissa Leo – Frozen River
Meryl Streep – Doubt
Kate Winslet – The Reader

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Josh Brolin – Milk
Robert Downey Jr. – Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Doubt
Heath Ledger – The Dark Knight
Michael Shannon – Revolutionary Road
(Shia LaBeouf, Eagle Eye, and Bee Vang, Gran Torino, should have been nominated)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams – Doubt
Penelope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Viola Davis – Doubt
Taraji P. Henson – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei – The Wrestler
(Ahney Her from Gran Torino should have been nominated and should have won – she was exquisite!)

DIRECTOR
David Fincher
Ron Howard
Gus Van Sant
Stephen Daldry
Danny Boyle
(Clint Eastwood, Gran Torino AND Changeling should have been nominated and should have won)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Courtney Hunt – Frozen River
Mike Leigh – Happy-Go-Lucky
Martin – In Bruges
Dustin Lance Black – Milk
Andrew Stanton – WALL-E

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Eric Roth and Robin Swicord – Benjamin Button
John Patrick Shanley – Doubt
Peter Morgan – Frost/Nixon
David Hare – The Reader
Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaire

FOREIGN LANGUAGE
Der Baader Meinhof Komplex
The Class
Departures
Revanche
Waltz with Bashir

ANIMATED
Bolt
Kung Fun Panda
WALL-E

The Oscars will be held on February 22nd and will be hosted by Hugh Jackman.

The picture at the top of the post are from the Berlin premiere of Benjamin Button. To see more, click HERE.

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There’s nothing wrong with having strong political opinions. There’s nothing wrong with supporting a certain politician. But when you come across as a ranting mad woman and hurl venom on people who don’t deserve it, it’s time to take a long vacation.

Here’s what Roseanne Barr said on her blog:
“Jon Voight is a frightened little girl in a pink ballet tutu… your evil spawn Angelina Jolie and her vacuous hubby Brad Pitt make about forty million dollars a year in violent psychopathic movies and give away three of it to starving children trying to look as if they give a crap about humanity as they spit out more dunces that will consume more than their fair share and wreck the earth even more. (Just sayin’).

“Also Miss Jolie says she likes McCain too and hasn’t decided who to endorse….huh? Aren’t you supposed to be somewhat enlightened, or do you not know that the African daughter you hold in every picture had parents who suffered and died because of the republican party’s worldwide economic assault on Africa over the last few decades since Reagan? Whaaaa…??????!!!! (For that matter, the thai and vietnamese sons you are photo’d with weekly too!!!? Who’s [sic] pictures you sell to raise money to help the poor? … We want to save not lose our souls thank you. Now go back to making your movies about women who love to handle big guns that shoot hundreds of people to death. Ps….it might be good for your Asian and African children’s self-esteem to know you support a brown man for the leader of the free world.)”

Evil Spawn? Vacuous? …support a “brown man?” (I think the man that’ll probably be our next President deserves more respect than to be treated like a crayon – it’s like preschool, “I want the blue crayon…now the brown one…”)

I’d always been a fan of Roseanne Barr’s – I applauded her strength as a person. Strength to overcome adversities in her life and to, essentially, be the last one standing. She made me laugh so much my sides ached. I’m always a fan of people who do that. But none of this is funny. It’s actually kind of nasty.

But in all fairness, a lot of people are really passionate about the election this year – especially about the war. Passion’s a good thing – it just gets out of hand sometimes.

I’m completely shocked, and disappointed, that she’d go off on innocent people like this. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt do more charitiable work than any celebrity you can think of. They care about the world and, more importantly, the people in it.

I think Roseanne got bent out of shape because when asked who she supported in the election, Angelina (intelligently) said she hadn’t decided yet – that she was waiting to hear their opinions on different issues that were dear to her.

That’s just what an intelligent person sounds like. They’re fond of thinking!

I really hope that she’ll look at the words she wrote and realize that she went way, way, way too far. Hopefully she’ll even have enough character to say she’s sorry. That’d be cool. I think that underneath the anger and passion, she’s a cool lady – so I’m certain an apology is forthcoming.

She rolls like that. I’m betting on it.

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