Oscar Nom Nom Noms: Here Is Where We Feel Aggrieved and/or Elated

Back and front of fake money distributed on Wall Street during the height of the AIDS crisis by Gran Fury, the activist art collective cofounded by Todd Haynes, who has never been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director.
Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and say this for the Academy’s recent-years decision to monkey with the five-movie exclusivity of the Best Picture category: it has made Picture and Director much more difficult to predict. This year, eight movies we