What the Oscars got wrong
For everything the Oscars got right this year (all those nominations for “Slumdog Millionaire” and “Milk”), there’s even more they got wrong (13 for “Benjamin Button”). Jack Mirkinson surveys the damage.
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So, so many problems, and so little space. First off: this is the place to rage against the almost complete exclusion of “Happy-Go-Lucky,” Mike Leigh’s dizzyingly delightful postcard from working-class London. How is it possible that “Happy-Go-Lucky” only got a nomination for its script — most of which was improvised — while dreck like “The Reader” and “The...
