*Oscar Nominations: The Morning After

If a tree falls in the woods, but everyone is watching their TVs, does it make a noise?

It's been more than 24 hours since The Jonases, beautiful, talented, and from media other than film, adorably announced the *Oscar nominations. And for that day+, I have been - and it seems others have been, too - looking for something worth discussing about the nominations.

And really... nothing. The same group of a dozen films considered in play for months went into the hopper and came out a little differently than other "precursors," but nothing surprising. The only real "snubs" (a stupid word used stupidly way too often) this season were imaginary nominees in the first place, spurred on by an encouraging media happy to suck in added marketing dollars from the overly hopefuls.

The truth is, the eight Best Picture nominees (it will be 10 from next year's 10-month season on) were the best- or most-marketed and films that delivered what they claimed (for the most part). Just like every season.

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