Amazing documentarian A J Schnack, who made Gigantic (a Tale of Two Johns), the doco about the band They Might Be Giants, has been on a campaign to get the televised reveal of the Oscar noms to include docs. No such luck. The argument goes that Today show viewers (shorthand for all Americans) aren’t interested in dreary docs. But as he points out:

[A]s of today, March of the Penguins has outgrossed all five nominated films in each of the following categories, all of which were announced this morning live on television:

Best Picture

Best Director

Best Supporting Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Foreign Language Film

Best Animated Feature Film

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Original Screenplay

So there!

– Fenton Bailey