So ONE dude puts Gran Torino is his #2 on the ballot. The SAME dude puts Happy-Go-Lucky as #1...so why has that not risen in the ranks then? Because both have no chance, that's why.

I don't know, I'm getting a bad feeling about it too.

You win I'll agree with every ridiculous claim you make in the review forum and every outrageous club in the BO forum. Sound good?

This movie has a slight, and I mean slight chance at being nominated.
It has no, absolutely no chance at winning.

I bet my pot of gold (referring to all the irish jokes here) on that.

This from EW.com:

'Gran Torino': Last-minute Best Picture nominee?
Jan 13, 2009, 11:04 AM | by Dave Karger

Could Clint Eastwood do it again? In 2004, his directorial effort Million Dollar Baby was an eleventh-hour entry in the awards race and ended up winning Best Picture and Best Director, among several other prizes. Two years later, his late addition of Letters from Iwo Jima came from nowhere to earn a bunch of top-tier nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. And now, his fascinating drama Gran Torino is indisputably the hot movie of the moment: It just raked in nearly $30 million in its first weekend of wide release, and it's the film that most Oscar voters discovered last, screening it just before ballots were due. I've long been a believer in Eastwood's Best Actor chances and still think he'll displace The Visitor's Richard Jenkins or even The Curious Case of Benjamin Button's Brad Pitt next Thursday. But with many voters said to be loving the film, could it eke out a Best Picture nod as well? It sure seems like a long shot: Even though they showed up late in the game, Million Dollar Baby and Letters from Iwo Jima still landed on the DGA list and other important pre-Oscar tallies, while Gran Torino was overlooked by the PGA, DGA, SAG, and even the Broadcast Film Critics Association top 10. Still, if there's any film that could end up as a surprise Best Picture nominee, this could be the one. The ultimate irony: If the savvy Warner Bros. team is able to push Torino into the big dance, the movie they just might bump out is their own mega-blockbuster, The Dark Knight.

Step away from the ledge, people! There's nothing to be scared of.

yeah. hmm. if ballots were due a week later, we might have an issue, but at the moment, I think not.

If Gran Torino is nominated, I don't know what I'll do. It makes Crash and Babel and M$B look downright spectacular.

Gran Torino won't get nominated, but it's soooooo deserving.

BKB, why haven't you seen it yet?????

Or not.

Well, at least that didn't happen.