No Best Picture For Dreamgirls

Once again, God is doing a fabulous job imposing her taste on the rest of us. While Dreamgirls regretably leads the Oscar nominees in number of nominations, it did not get nominated for Best Picture or Best Director (sorry Bill, I loved Chicago, Kinsey, and Gods and Monsters, but you really could have done much better with this one), and fucking Beyonce did not get her expected Best Actress nomination(honey, if Madonna couldn't do it, there was no way you were going to). YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The downside to all this is that Jennifer Hudson is now virtually guaranteed a win. The voters are going to feel that they have to give Dreamgirls something and since she's the media darling with her fabricated Cinderella story, it will make the most sense to give it to her. Hopefully they can then hold off on awarding Eddie Murphy and limit the damage. I was disappointed that Notes on a Scandal wasn't nominated either, but at least Judi and Cate got their nominations, and it would be so nice if Judi could score an upset. I did like Kate, but Abigail Breslin needs to win that category. Any 10 year old girl that can pull off that dance deserves an Oscar. Here's hoping Peter O'Toole finally gets his due (and good to the Academy for recognizing Ryan Gosling). And finally, while this is the first year in a long time that I've only seen one of the Best Picture nominees, I am fully behind Little Miss Sunshine for Best Picture and Paul Greengrass for Best Director (United 93 really should have been nominated instead of Iwo Jima). Little Miss was a surprise winner at the Producer's Guild awards, let's hope that gives it the momentum it needs to pull a Crash, except this time the upset will truly deserve the award and the Academy can get back some of its relevance.