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The nominations for Hollywood’s annual tribute to itself are in and, hmm… not my favorite batch of Best Picture nominees this year (I was profoundly disappointed by The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and David Fincher’s Zodiac was my favorite movie of last year!), but we’re not here to talk movies. We’re here to discuss the usual travesty that is the Academy’s music nominations. Here they are:
I left Slumdog Millionaire during the mansion scene—I couldn’t watch someone be that stupid anymore, sorry. Flimsy framing device, too. But even I had to admit that when “Paper Planes” came on it matched the images perfectly—even if I also think playing the entire song in the middle of the movie was, well, kind of unnecessary.