Virtually no Oscar expert had Mike Leigh making their list of the ten most likely nominees for Best Director. And yet:
Martin Scorsese for The Aviator Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar [sic] Baby Taylor Hackford for Ray Alexander Payne for Sideways Mike Leigh for Vera Drake
Similarly for Best Original Screenplay, where Mr. Leigh also received a very out-of-the-blue nomination. (The third Vera nod was for Imelda Staunton in the Best Actress category, but that was widely expected.) Good job, Academy.
Also, nearly as good, my man Michel Gondry received a Oscar nomination, although he pretty much backed into it.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
