glad to see Wall-E on the list, saw it over the weekend and surprisingly enjoyed it. I was hoping Vanessa Williams would receive a nod, but oh well.

I kept thinking that the Milk snub in the supporting category was due to so many contenders canceling each other out. But then that should have happened with Tropic Thunder too. Strange that the foreign press love that movie enough for those noms but not for Best Comedy.

Maybe I’m just being daft, but I didn’t see a comedy or a musical when I saw “Viicky Christina Barcelona,” I saw a sort of sexual coming-of-age drama with a few funny moments, but not enough for me to think of the film as a comedy. Also, I have to say, I got pretty amped when I read “The Visitor” had been nominated and was disappointed to find that it had not. I program an arthouse theater in a relatively small town, and “The Visitor” was one of our biggest hits this year. It sould out our 135-seat auditorium about seven times, and our patrons were leaving the theater after every screening engaged in some pretty serious debates about immigration, so I have a soft spot for the film.