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The Academy Awards Nominees were announced and the Razzies followed shortly.

About the Oscars, I’m more than a bit upset that we’re not seeing any anime titles in the list of animated movies. A list btw that is terribly short and boring. I guess someone paid good money to avoid the obvious. We all know no American animated crap can compete with real Japanese anime and so it has been for years. Some people have however done their best to disguise this fact and now choose to take a step back, pretending or conveniently forgetting what exists on the horizon. It’s a fact that despite winning an Academy Award in 2002, Miyazaki’s Spirited Away never did attract the crowds or pull in any major sums. I guess someone decided it would be better to place a safe bet this time and use the PR on a movie that will sell really well despite being full of crap.
Nor were there any nominations for either FAHRENHEIT 9/11 or BUSH’S BRAIN in the documentary category. Is it getting too political perhaps? As a documentary it’s not that innovative and it probably doesn’t deserve to win (SUPER SIZE ME is a tough contender). But it should be among the nominees. And PASSION OF THE CHRIST of course was snubbed too (unless you count makeup etc as being relevant) for falling too far on the opposite side of the spectrum. All in all I say this entire event is a charade. What else is new. A big charade from the country of charades.
There is one small silver lining in that Natalie Portman is nominated for the first time in her career. I had a hard time believing that too but it seems to indeed be the first time. Can’t say I’ve seen the movie though. If it’s not Star Trek, I’m lost.

The Razzies reveal what we already knew, ALEXANDER and CATWOMAN are the overall most disliked movies of the last year. FAHRENHEIT 9/11 also gets a bunch of nominations, mostly due to the terrible casting (Condoleeza Rice, Britney Spears, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush and ‘His Pet Goat’).