Three points - Oscar!

1)  On the 10 Best Picture nominations:  Despite the enlargement of this category, the race still comes down to - like every year - the films that were nominated for Best Director (and beyond that we know the “real” race is actually only 2 films), and in the end Up, the best film of the year, will get its ghettoized Animation Oscar.

2)  On the documentary race:  For the whole of 2009 I could not bring myself to watch The Cove.  Then - thanks to the Cinema Eye Awards - I got motivated to actually watch the film and I hope the Oscars can do the same for the rest of the country, because it is truly a “Must See.”

3)  On Independent Film:  I still don’t know what “independent film” means these days.  That said, arthouse distributors put up a fine showing and I congratulate them all, especially Sony Picture Classics for pulling out a Best Original Song nomination.  Best Original Song!  Who’d have thunk it?

jaredmoshe posted to Three Points on February 2, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (0)

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