Well, it turns out that Battlestar Galactica's first episode of season 4.5 has proved me utterly wrong. Oh well.

There's a whole lot going on with me right now, and I have very little time to blog it all. However, I just wanted to let you know about some upsetting news regarding the latest Batman film, The Dark Knight.

The nominees for the 81st Academy Awards were announced this morning, and many (including myself) were shocked to learn that Dark Knight has been snubbed for the Best Picture category.

The nominees for best picture:
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Admittedly, Dark Knight faces stiff competition from all these films, most of which are styled to be Academy darlings. The most uncomfortable selection though has to be The Reader, which, while being a solid romantic-historic-political-drama (and a film that Angela and I would like to see), has gotten lukewarm reviews from critics, standing at 60% on Rotten Tomatoes compared with Dark Knight's 94%.

The Academy also snubbed Christopher Nolan in the Best Director category, as well as the powerhouse composing team of Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard in the Best Score category.

Politics? Probably, because you can be there will be a riot in Hollywood if Heath Ledger doesn't posthumously win in the Best Supporting Actor category for his frightening performance as the Joker. And the darkly psychological The Dark Knight is not an Academy-friendly movie.

It's also sad to see Wall-E waving from the kiddie table in the "Best Animated Picture" category when it deserves to be in the "BEST PICTURE" category. I hope it takes home Best Screenplay, it certainly deserves it.

Too sad.