Top 10 Most Bewildering Academy Award Best Picture Nominees Scratching your noggin over the Oscar love for The Reader? How did those dastardly has-been Weinstein brothers budge The Dark Knight(if you're a whiny fanboy) or The Wrestler(if you're a whiny film snob) out of a deserving Best Picture nomination with a movie no one seems to care for? Well it's not the first time the Weinsteins have pulled off such a feat. Yet, nor are they the only Hollywood salesmen to ram a film into the Oscar race. It's hard to imagine Oscar without some sort of surprise. Sometimes it's for the better sometimes it is just plain astonishing and almost seems to be done simply to say, "Hey, we're the Academy, we do what we want." Every year they sprinkle their categories with nominations that leave a lot of folks wondering just how the hell that happened and...
- 1/28/2009
- by David Frank
- Rope of Silicon
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