[Ghoulish Delight]

Yes, but were any of the others that good either? Milk and Frost/Nixon are the only two we've seen. Both good, but not amazingly good where I'm surprised that something else won. I could see the argument that Milk "deserves" a leg up because of its timely emotional and political importance, but those are external factors and don't change the fact that outside of its context it's just a pretty good, maybe very good, but not great film. I imagine that people for whom the realities of Indian poverty is an important issue would feel that Slumdog deserves the same artificial leg up due to ITS timely emotional and political importance.