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Oh, snap, Into The Wild!

You got served, Charlie Wilson's War!

In your face, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street!  

The blogosphere is aflutter this morning with who got snubbed, dissed, and otherwise slapped in the face with virtual gloves by the folks who nominate other folks for Academy Awards.

You can (and will, I'm sure) make arguments for Angelina Jolie, Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Eddie Vedder, and whomever else you enjoy.

And there are the usual legitimate reasons to gripe about the Academy -- and new ones too.  But I don't see the people who didn't get nominated as the real disses.  Not when you've got ones like this: 

• On its website, the Academy calls this morning's 5-minute display of nominees a "Nominations Announcement Show."  Some show... Kathy Bates and a bearded dude (okay, so he's president Sid Ganis) read names in front of five TV screens. E! was able to play the entire thing twice, with commercials. I'm now convinced they're trying to lower our expectations even further in case the Writers Guild strike makes the Oscar telecast as exciting as, well, the opening of an envelope.

• There were dozens of people who DID get nominated in categories that WILL get announced on the night of the awards but who weren't deemed worthy for that announcement this morning.  No cinematographers, no designers, no documentarians, no writers of music...

• Speaking of music, the Academy had already disqualified some of the best scores of the year, from There Will Be Blood, Into The Wild, and Enchanted. More on that in an upcoming post.

• Another amazing feat: The self-directing movie! Atonement gets a Best Picture nod, but no acknowledgement for its director.  Meanwhile, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly's Julian Schnabel gets a director nod, but no chance at Best Picture.

• OK, I will gripe about just a few absent nominees, just because I haven't yet heard others mention them... Not a word about Zodiac, The Lookout, and -- a much better comedy than Juno -- Knocked Up.  And if you ARE going to throw all these nominations at Juno (a point I will argue against in more detail in a later post), I would have liked to see one for the only actress who seemed to take to play the situation and not just the comedy: Jennifer Garner.

Yes, it was inevitable that someone was going to get dissed this morning.  But of course, it's also completely silly.  The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is not one person.  And at 80 years old, not a gossipy teen in junior high at that.  (More likely a cranky old man with a grudge and a bad memory.)

But it's not like the members of the Academy are out to pick the WORST movies of the year (for those nominees, look here). 

I suppose you do kind of wish (and only kind of) that the Academy would release a list of "others receiving votes," like they do in the NCAA rankings. Then you could know who really got absolutely no mention.  And then -- maybe -- you could make a legitimate claim of dissing.

Or you could just pass a note in study hall. 

I'm sure you already have your own disses to discuss(please, post a comment and let everybody know), and I'll have more as I race to the theatres to see all the nominees I haven't yet seen (and ones I've maybe forgotten about) before February 24th.

Let the arguing begin!