Award Season 2007!

[Alex]

Any best song category that does not at least include a nomination for Once is a fraud so far as I'm concerned.

I've heard though, that there is some controversy over whether the songs are Oscar eligible since they were released on a CD before the movie was released (the songs were written and performed for the movie but they didn't know if they'd get distribution so released the album). Was that resolved?

And if you're going to have a Comedy category I think you're pretty much obligated to include Knocked Up or Superbad (preferably the latter) in it. Lars and the Real Girl, while wryly amusing at times, is neither a musical nor a comedy. I haven't seen it yet but I'm guessing that I'd say the same about Charlie Wilson's War. The Golden Globes apparently define a "comedy" as "a dramatic film where you smile at least once."

And what is up with nominating Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth: The Golden Age, an all around disaster except for set design and costuming instead of I'm Not There?

On the assumption that list is copy & paste from some official source it is kind of embarrassing that they dropped half of Daniel Day-Lewis's last name.