blog.spout.com | by Christopher Campbell | Thu, Jan 22
Thu, Jan 22
For the full list of nominees, head to Oscar.com. Or, if you don’t like drop menus, Variety. Neither THE DARK KNIGHT nor WALL-E for Best Picture because the Academy still has a Holocaust fetish. Will Oscar ratings be super-low as a result?
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