Oscars, 2/7.

Of course Alfonso Cuarón is happy that Children of Men has been nominated for three Oscars, Babel for seven and Pan's Labyrinth for six. "What I resent, however," he blogs at the Guardian, "is the notion that the Oscars are somehow bestowing legitimacy on Mexican cinema."

Two online samples from the new "Movie Issue" of Los Angeles: Steve Erickson lauds Sacha Baron Cohen and Stephen Rodrick - ostensibly on how much or how little bloggers have on the Oscar race, but actually pretty much focusing on the rivalry between David Poland and Jeffrey Wells. Glenn Kenny comments.

Could there be an upset in the race for the Best Documentary Oscar? Anthony Kaufman: "[T]he fact is that An Inconvenient Truth - despite Paramount Vantage's impressive marketing - is a bit of a bore. Iraq in Fragments beautiful, complex, even more urgent and the first movie to come along that touches on the current war with a deep, emotional power, is simply a stronger, more memorable film."

Judi Dench has "received her sixth Oscar nomination in a decade, and each one has been for giving almost the exact same performance," argues Amos Posner at PopMatters.

Posted by dwhudson at February 7, 2007 3:18 PM