She has also been VERY vocal about wanting to win. And she is smart enough to realize that if her role is in a BP nominated film that increases her chances greatly.

He is the main reason The Reader wasn't pushed to 2009. That created a cascade effect and Revolutionary Road was one of many victims.

I love how absolutely NO ONE involved with The Reader felt it was good enough for a release. Except Harv.

It doesn't seem to me that Rev Road ever had a chance. It seems the film was inexplicably brushed aside pretty early on. The premise is pretty damn boring. Besides, American Beauty covers the American-suburbia-gone-bad genre.

The book is apparently brilliant, though.

That's because it came out in 1962.

wow now anton hates women and books.

I'd be more ok with this than Button winning

I'm pretty sure Anton hates everything. Even masterbating and ice cream aren't safe.

But according to you, TDK and WALL-E didn't have a chance either.

You have a chance until you don't. That's how the Oscars work. Had The Reader not come out, all the focus would have been that Kate performance, and perhaps Leo and Sam Mendes would have been carried along for the ride. Or not.

We've seen many films, especially in the 00's nominated for Best Picture based pretty much on a single lead acting performance.

But not by an Actress. Well, maybe the Queen. Okay. maybe.

Erin Brockovich. I'm pretty sure.

Well, WALL-E and TDK weren`t nominated, were theyÉ


Mind you, I would have liked to see them get in (YES, I SAID IT), but as I have zero respect for the Academy and hold it to a low standard, the actualy nominees mean very little to me. I`m just one of those people who stands by the side and bitches. I`m like an Oprah audience member: always there, but largely invisible.

Don't forget kittens. I rescued a few once and they shit everywhere. Goddamn hairballs.

For this episode of Oprah's Favorite Things you get a slap.

I like how Oprah's name is a misspelling of one of the weirder Biblical names.

HARPO?

Fuck you, man. Orpah is as epic as Oprah`s ass.

How can you be gay and not know this!


ORPAH.

The Reader's surprise nomination and Harvey Weinstein's comment here remind me why I didn't miss him at all in the past few awards seasons. I liked The Reader, but it is so very far from being the best movie of the year, and we all know that Weinstein's desperation for more Oscar gold is why this thing was in the race as thickly as it evidently was. It would deserve at least some level of the hostility even if The Dark Knight had made the cut and it had knocked something else out.

I just hope there isn't a backlash for Harvey's Nine in December.