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Yay! Oscar nominations are out!

I'm glad that Cold Mountain didn't get the nominations that it was expecting, because frankly, it wasn't as good of a movie as the others were. Nicole Kidman has done better work.

I'm delighted to see Keisha Castle-Hughes nominated for best actress for Whale Rider. Her performance was excellent and she deserves to be up there with the others. That's a weird category this year, and it looks more and more likely now that Charlize Theron will get the award given who she is running against (Samantha Morton, Dianne Keaton, Naomi Watts.) I'm surprised that Scarlett Johansen wasn't nominated for anything.

I don't know why Russell Crowe didn't get nominated. Master and Commander was one of his better roles in recent years, and I think it was a much more complex one than Jude Law's Inman from Cold Mountain, but he may be on the Academy shit-list now after the BAFTA thing last year. I expect that unless the Academy is totally unwilling to forgive, Sean Penn will win that award. If they just can't let bygones be bygones, Bill Murray will get it.

I've seen all of the nominated best picture films except for Seabiscuit (which didn't get a directing nomination, btw). Each is very good. I think that LOTR:ROTK has the best chance of winning, though I'm not ruling out Mystic River. I expect that Sofia Coppola will win some award, though it is more likely to be for writing or directing than for motion picture.

In America has gotten a lot of nominations and I have been meaning to see this film. I've heard a lot of good things about the little girls in the film, as well as the writing, but I didn't realize that Djimon Hounsuo was in it or that he had such a good performance. (You all probably last saw him in Gladiator).

The Animated Feature Film nominations show why inventing that category sucks. Brother Bear against Finding Nemo? Please. Finding Nemo can and should compete against any of the best motion picture movies and not be shoved off into the kids table so as to not bug the adults.

I can't wait to see Christopher Guest and the rest of the Mighty Wind people on stage Oscar night singing their song.

I'm sort of sad that the only nomination that American Splendor got was a writing nod, but it was a really good movie, and you guys should all go out and rent it when it comes out.

There's something wrong with a world where Kill Bill doesn't get an Art Direction nod, but lately that category has been dominated by the period pieces, and I have a feeling that the Academy may have been a little freaked out by that movie.

Has anyone seen City of God? It got a hell of a lot of nominations, and I'm wondering if it was that good.