well, why?

Could you be any more vague?

oh, clarification:

why the unprecedented sweep? what chord hath been stricken?

White man's burden.

It was destiny.

As much as I liked Milk and Frost/Nixon, they just haven't attracted the right attention. Blame their respective studios for the badly run campaign.

The Oscars go to the studio that puts the most dinero into its campaign. People do this for a living.

Fox Searchlight discovered it could turn Juno into a $100m+ hit by spending a few milli into an Oscar campaign that would get it a few noms. So, when Slumdog got rave reviews, it decided to milk the Juno strategy twice, but with more money this time. It's a low-risk, high-return investment. Good strategy. Fox doesn't give two shits about the Oscar, it's strictly financial.

Because Slumdog is amazazazazazaing

And our lives would suck without it

The style is critic friendly, and the story is audience friendly, much more so than a film like Crash. It connects and strikes the chord with many people on various levels. With all the inevitable backlash and "overrated" calls, I find it amazing that it still sits at No. 34 in IMDb's top 250 list, the second highest from all 2008 films behind TDK, and one of the highest for a non-blockbuster BP winner.

pretty much.

It hasnt been that good a year. So this stands out. I prefer Frost Nixon and TDK to it, but I like it too. It kind of defaults as a front runner.

this was a very weak year. The only year this decade where I'd see Slumdog having a real shot at BP, let alone having a potential sweep, is '05.

I like the film. Despite the fact that the poseurs on this site choose to hate on it.

It's time for knives out. I'm going on the offensive.

Radiohead

No dice, I loved it and am free of the burden on account of nationality.

Yay someone else likes/loves it too

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one backing the film up, because its detractors are much LOUDER than its supporters.

You're the exception ginger. And I've seen The Nephew, I know how many Irish people roll.

Dear God you saw that! My condolences.

I love Pierce, sue me.

A lot of people (myself included) love the film, even at KJ and AD where the detractors feel to be the loudest, considering it's nominated for BP at both places (even winning screenplay at AD). It's also ironic that it's the only BP overlap between us and academy. And nothing outside (box office, IMDb/Yahoo grade, etc.) suggests it's not loved by the general public either. So no need to worry.

You're just hating it because if you liked it then it would would feel you are supporting the white man's burden (even though for you it's mostly affluence) so you are having an inverse reaction to ... yeah.

See where this is going?

Actually I've decided to put all of the people on this site in buckets to easier prioritize my anger with the people here. I've placed you in the "bitter that TDK isn't nominated bucket", and that's how I see you

technically WALL-E.

There's no bucket for Wall-E BP nomination, because I put all of those people in the "Clueless and Ridiculous" bucket.

I put you in the "Likes to Generalize to Make Himself Feel Better" bucket.

Didn't he admit that?

I do wonder if WALL-E and TDK were really all that far apart, though. At least WALL-E had a Screenplay nomination. Nolan got shut out entirely.