10 Noms for Best Pic??

Wowsers, THIS changes EVERYTHING! Imagine if this were the situation in the past few years: Could WALL-E, Into the Wild, Children of Men, or (dare I say it) The Dark Knight have been included for Best Pic consideration, instead of snubbed like in reality?

So, it's back to how things were in the 1930s. How might things go this year for Best Pic noms? This is how I think it might go, with the year nearly half over (as of July 1st), give or take an extra five:

1. Up
2. Away We Go
   
3. Where the Wild Things Are
4. Nine
5. Precious
6. Avatar
7. Coraline
8. Bright Star
   
9. Public Enemies
10. Sita Sings the Blues
11. Green Zone
12. The Informant
13. Biutiful
    
14. The Hurt Locker
15. The Lovely Bones
    

Quit Happens

Despite WALL-E musical pair Thomas Newman and Peter Gabriel winning not one but TWO Grammies this past weekend (and even nom'd for a 3rd), the Motion Picture Academy has officially done something so wrong that Gabriel now refuses to attend this year's Oscars.

Yes, you read that correctly. As if cutting down song nominations from 5 to 3 wasn't slashfest enough, the Academy wants to combine all of the songs into a medley to cut back on time. Thus, the song from WALL-E would only receive 65 seconds' worth of airtime. I'd imagine something similar would occur for each of Slumdog Millionaire's songs as well.

Diehard Gabriel fan or not, I respect Newman's work beyond words, so I, too, am rather outraged.