
Another early morning, another night of hardly any sleep, another set of disappointing nominees. In previous years, my lack of sleep in anticipation for the Academy Award nomination announcement has been out of excitement, but this year, it was out of fear and anxiety. I knew that the Best Picture frontrunners were no good, and the rest of the categories didn't look nearly as promising. Yet the actual result of this morning's big announcement proved to me that the Academy actually cares far less about the quality of filmmaking than I ever thought, as many of the nominees in many of these categories aren't just mediocre or overwhelming- they are flat-out awful without a single redeeming quality about it. But there are still a FEW good things I have to say about these nominees.