The Oscar nominations came out today and I was going to try and do some reviews of the nominees, however I have seen few of the films in nomination and I think that would be something many of us can say. Other than The Dark Knight getting a nod because of Heath Ledger, most of the films I saw were nominated in technical categories.

Honestly, it has been probably 20 years since I’ve really followed the Oscars intensely. Back in the day, when I was still in school and trying to learn about filmmaking, I was on the high school newspaper and part of my ‘job’ was to do movie reviews, so I made it a point to expose myself to all sorts of films. Yes, this got me watching a lot of things I probably wouldn’t have seen, but I did discover there was more to the world than spaceships or future noir.

It’s like so many things in life that when you get older, things change for you. Other things become important and the smaller things are forgotten. I can’t vouch for the films this year. I can’t say if they are good or if Hollywood pretense got a number of the nominations through, but it’s a shame, to me, that I haven’t seen any of the nominated films on the list.

 

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