A Bitter Richard Linklater Fan

The foreign film Water is the only movie I have seen nominated this year deserving of an Oscar. It's lush, has great depth and carries an important message. The fact that the making of the film was delayed for 5 years because of extremist Hindus in India just gives it that much more of a chance of winning.

That's the only one I'll be looking at Oscar night. Well, that and Scorsese, I guess. OK..and An Inconvenient Truth--which is just such a beautiful thing.

But for the Best Picture category, having just seen Little Miss Sunshine this week, I pretty much think Oscar has lost all its hairline-thin credibility. I can't for the life of me figure out what would make that film get a nod. Was it much better in the theater with an audience?
"Oh, that's so funny everybody isn't it/they are pushing the van again."

I guess it all makes sense in some way--a joke of a movie contest honors a one-joke movie.