January 29, 2004

"OK, here's why you're wrong."

That's Andy Ross to Tony Nigro in a whiplash-fun, all-week-long "Movie Club" a la Flak. The subject at hand: the Oscar nominations, naturally.

Greg Allen joins the gaggle of New Yorkers parsing the nominations at Gothamist. (Greg also points to the night they watched the Globes.)

David Poland, Gary Dretzka and Leonard Klady all do some savvy collating and commenting in Movie City News, where you'll also find your way to Roger Ebert's take: "This year's nominations, announced early Tuesday, showed uncommon taste and imagination in reaching beyond the starstruck land of the Golden Globes to embrace surprising and in some cases almost unknown choices. It's one of the best lists in years."

Writing in the LA Weekly, Nikki Finke disagrees: "It will be a crushing bore. No suspense. No surprises. No Michael Moore... So let's handicap this lame race, shall we?" (Note to Ms Finke: I blog yet somehow manage to breathe through my nose.)

In Salon, Brian Libby nabs Fernando Meirelles's reaction to City of God's four nominations.



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Posted by dwhudson at January 29, 2004 11:33 AM

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I can't be the only one who thought PAUL GIAMATTI was overlooked, ripped off? Best performance by an actor I saw all year, bar none. As I've written elsewhere, couldn't the AA have moved Johnny Depp into supporting actor, bumped out one of the mediocre performances from that category (I wouldn't be heartbroken to lose Alec Baldwin), and get Giamatti in? Sigh.

Posted by: Craig P at January 29, 2004 1:43 PM