[Zivasmate]

Not Steyn's best column ever, but he makes some salient points about the Oscars and its declining appeal.

[Borges]

He also mistakenly calls 'Vera Drake' a Hollywood film.

[jocon307]

Cheadle was robbed and that's the truth.

[drt1]

Still, he does make a point. These self congratulatory, award swapping 'Celebrities' are getting so wound up in PC that in the very near future they won't have a joke to tell that won't offend some artificially defined group's sensitivities. The same is probably true of screenplays. LMAO.

[Darkwolf377]

Of the nominated films I saw I'm glad Million Dollar Baby won. For the "where are your credentials?" crowd, I'm 100% anti-euthanasia. It's a terrific character piece. I don't look to movies for moral guidance, just interesting characters, good filmmaking, and compelling stories, all of which this had.

I think Fox should have won for Collateral if he had to win, though I was glad Freeman won. In fact, Eastwood's performance will be remembered after 'Ray" enters that pantheon of winners who didn't REALLY deserve to win, now that we think about it years later.

Last year was an awful year for movies.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

Actually, I didn't even realize this was a Steyn article until you mentioned it. Not quite the biting edge that he normally uses.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

2003: Oscars are lame.
2004: Oscars are megalame.