I believe it was on the short list so it was eligible. But perhaps the voting body is biased against it as a medium and sees it as threatening in some way.
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Rooting for Hugo to take down The Artist.
Pleasantly surprised by the nominations for The Tree of Life.
No nom for Drive for best pic? Fuck you, Oscars.
I honestly didn't expect the Academy to nominate their Lord and Savior, Brad Bird (after all, they are a bunch of Jews), but not one technical award to MI:GP? The shit is that?
Some of you guys sound like a bunch of pathetic losers.
I don't get the Jonah Hill nom at all.
Hill was serviceable in the film. Better actors probably deserved it over him, but there's been far more worse performances that have been nominated (and won!) over him.
Apart from Albert Brooks, I can't say I'm all that surprised about Drive not getting many nominations. Aren't most Academy members forgotten former contract players from the 1950s? I can't imagine that Debbie Reynolds and Betty White were thrilled by the face-stomping scene in Drive.
Hm, fair points. (Although not sure I'd call it Oscar bait, as it lacks the required cripple/retard/Streep quotient and the stakes, as presented, are pretty low)
The noms throw me because the movie is completely unmbitious. Hill and Pitt were good and all, but I didn't see anything in those performances that warranted a nomination.