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The Leafs starting goaltender is Vesa Toskala. He'd be an upgrade. Or is he that bad?

Dude, it's called Dirty Work. A lot of people didn't like Zodiac. I really enjoyed it, and thought Robert Downey deserved a nod. Hoop Dreams was the first time people looked at the Best Documentary category and was like: Wait, none of this makes any sense. They've taken steps to try and change it, though it's still a quagmire.

Crash winning was more a lot of the Academy's older block not going for a gay movie. Plus, Shakespeare in Love probably translates well on the small screen. TDK was my favourite film of 2008 and made the top ten lists of many critics. It certainly deserves a nomination, but the Academy can't vote for popcorn flicks it seems. It's the best film of 08 and I saw nothing that came remotely close to it. It's stupid to get pissed off over films that had no chance to begin with. In Bruges got a screenplay nod, which is victory enough for a film like that. Towelhead got a medicore critical and commercial reception.

No, he did not. He won an Honourary Oscar. I don't know what he was up against, but Rear Window, Dial M For Murder, Psycho, Lifeboat- no problem with him winning for any of those.

Anyway, I'm pretty surprised Downey Jr. got nominated for Tropic Thunder. Kinda happy TDK didnt get nominated for all those "TDK is the best movie evaaaaa" type people. Those people are correct though. And you're happy an undeserving film that got medicore reviews at best got nominated over a film that was critically and commercially acclaimed?

Contraction is such a dirty word, that I think people are afraid to do it.

If I had a scale, I would totally enter, just to see how much I'd gain

Hartford still has the old arena, and I don't think Winnipeg can sustain an NHL franchise.

This was a thread designed for people to predict and say what they wanted nominated, and to discuss the actual nominations. When the awards are closer, we can have one for predictions and for the show itself

Do we even know if Chyna was a woman?

For a minute I was like: Gerber plays for the Caps now? I think it's time to move Nashville and Phoenix to Hamilton and Kansas City, or just accept that it was a mistake

Leave the Memories Alone

Looking back, maybe, but Rocky was such an inspirational and crowd pleasing movie at such a dark time in America that it made sense to win.

All I got from The Reader was that: If you date a Nazi war criminal, well don't!

That's how I felt about Doubt. I'm not that surprised TDK was snubbed, just that it was snubbed for, of all things, The Reader.

You didn't even last two months. Lame

If they give that award to anyone else they might as well start holding the show on public access. Ledger is the only nomination keeping the building from being lit on fire. I just picture a white faced Philip Seymour Hoffman being like: Hey, I didn't ask for this

Reading the oral history of Ledger in EW, it sounds like Ledger hated all the Oscar stuff and wouldn't have wanted to be nominated or even win. I just feel a snub coming, there has to be some upset.

So would this just cover musicals? Because really, one-two musicals get released a year if that. Would things like Kat Dennings singing in Charlie Barlett count? Or Lisa Kudrow and Kevin Dillon singing in Hotel for Dogs?

Good catch, TheFranchise.

Damnit Cheech! Beat me to it. Undertaker at Wrestlemania XIV is pretty amazing. You knew Kane was going down.

I think the answer is that you're the only one who cares, Jingus.

I do see your point, but the Academy is about nominating the best achievements in movies, done for movies. It's Best Original Song, not Best Previously Heard Song. Also, apparently no one noticed that Once shouldn't have been eligible: (Thanks, wiki!) There was a debate as to whether or not Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, who were awarded the Oscar in 2008 for "Falling Slowly", were in fact eligible. "Falling Slowly" has been released on two other albums — The Swell Season, Hansard's solo debut, and The Cost, by Hansard's band The Frames. The Swell Season was released in August 2006, and The Cost in February 2007, before the release of Once. However, the AMPAS music committee determined that, in the course of the film's protracted production, the composers had "played the song in some venues that were deemed inconsequential enough to not change the song's eligibility From wiki, here's more fun with original song: Songs that were published prior to a film's production having nothing to do with the film, such as "Unchained Melody" in the 1990 film Ghost and "I Will Always Love You" in the 1992 film The Bodyguard, cannot qualify. In addition, songs that rely on sampled or reworked material, such as "Gangsta's Paradise" in the 1995 film Dangerous Minds, are also ineligible.

But that's... just... dumb. How many Broadway musicals are made into movies now, anyway? I see the point of this rule if it's just to stop possible retarded decisions like nominating a movie cuz it had a great Beatles song in it or something like that. But for original musical numbers which were very specifically written to go with this script, I don't understand what terrible injustices they're trying to prevent by banning those from contention. And hey, wasn't Chicago nominated for Best Song a few years back, anyway? ::checks IMDB:: Hey yeah, it was. And so was Phantom of the Opera. So how does that rule work, exactly? Chicago's song was written specifically for the movie. Ditto Phantom.

The point is to nominate songs written specifically for the movie, otherwise, any musical could just own the Best Original Song category. It's not the Tonys.