No... "ridiculously unfair" was last year's Oscar ceremony. Everybody voting on LOTR as a series. That's the reason it won so much. If they were voting on the merit of just ROTK (which is what they should have been doing as it was the nominated film... not the whole series), it would have won jack shit. And deserving films like Lost in Translation and Mystic River would have stood a fighting chance in the Best Picture and Director cats.

I agree that Giamatti was slighted as was Passion and Super Size Me. But, at least SSM was nominated and, I'm just glad Fahrenheit 9/11 wasn't in that category. None of the others would have stood a chance against it.

I think Eternal Sunshine needed to be released later than it was to be considered a serious contender. Too many people forgot about it. Too many others were able to see it on video and question what the hell it was all about (I understood it, but most of the people I've talked to had no clue what was going on with it). Yes, there are more confusing films out there that have won, but they waited until closer to the end of the nomination period.

Why wasn't Motorcycle Diaries up for best Foreign Film? Or was it and I missed it?