Who gets the Roger this year?
The Academy Award nominations were announced this morning — click here for the full list. Last year, I blogged about “a new interactive feature — who did work that merited a nomination at the very least but got completely shut out.” So, who gets a Roger this year??? The hardworking staff here at danieldrezner.com has ...
The Academy Award nominations were announced this morning -- click here for the full list. Last year, I blogged about "a new interactive feature -- who did work that merited a nomination at the very least but got completely shut out." So, who gets a Roger this year??? The hardworking staff here at danieldrezner.com has perused the list and.... well, we're having an admittedly tough time dredging anything up. The most glaring omission was Maria Bello as Best Supporting Actress for A History of Violence -- but then again, I wasn't that huge a fan of the movie. Sin City didn't get nominated for anything -- I would have thougt it merited a technical nomination or two, and if you ask me Elijah Wood was far scarier in that flick than William Hurt was in A History of Violence. I would have liked to have seen The Aristocrats nominated for Best Documentary, but I can't get too worked up about that -- especially with Murderball getting a nod. So, I'll leave it to the readers -- who merits a Roger? UPDATE: Entertainment Weekly's Popwatch blog has generated a list of its own -- including Joan Allen for The Upside of Anger. Having just seen that movie last night on DVD -- and being a big Joan Allen fan -- I'd argue that she'd have had a better chance if the movie had something resembling a coherent theme or plot.
The Academy Award nominations were announced this morning — click here for the full list. Last year, I blogged about “a new interactive feature — who did work that merited a nomination at the very least but got completely shut out.” So, who gets a Roger this year??? The hardworking staff here at danieldrezner.com has perused the list and…. well, we’re having an admittedly tough time dredging anything up. The most glaring omission was Maria Bello as Best Supporting Actress for A History of Violence — but then again, I wasn’t that huge a fan of the movie. Sin City didn’t get nominated for anything — I would have thougt it merited a technical nomination or two, and if you ask me Elijah Wood was far scarier in that flick than William Hurt was in A History of Violence. I would have liked to have seen The Aristocrats nominated for Best Documentary, but I can’t get too worked up about that — especially with Murderball getting a nod. So, I’ll leave it to the readers — who merits a Roger? UPDATE: Entertainment Weekly‘s Popwatch blog has generated a list of its own — including Joan Allen for The Upside of Anger. Having just seen that movie last night on DVD — and being a big Joan Allen fan — I’d argue that she’d have had a better chance if the movie had something resembling a coherent theme or plot.
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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