Oscar nominations are just weird this year. Off the top of my head, I can think of a half dozen movies that deserved Best Picture nominations and didn’t get them and can think of three that wouldn’t deserve to be on that list even if you expanded it to 20 movies. I would, quite seriously, nominate Fast and Furious 5 over The Help, War Horse and Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close.

There are few people in the last ten years who’ve deserved a Best Supporting Actor nomination more than Albert Brooks did in Drive so, naturally, he didn’t get one. On the other hand, Glenn Close got nominated for Albert Nobbs, a situation that caused the world to simultaneously cry out, “What the hell is Albert Nobbs?” My main hobby is seeing and reading about movies and I had never heard of Albert Nobbs.

I’m happy the voters recognized that Cars 2 sucked and didn’t give Pixar a Best Animated Feature even though that category was pretty much invented so they could stop being embarrassed for failing to nominate Pixar films.

And wow, only two original songs rated being nominated in the Best Original Song category. Given that there’s only one song from last year that I can even remember, I predict Man or Muppet from The Muppets will win. It’s kind of nice knowing my chances of being wrong are only 50%. I feel like a weather man.