In Anticipation of Morgan Freeman Beating Thomas Haden Church

You won't get an argument from me that the Academy Awards are largely meaningless--I more or less said as much in my original post. There was a brief interlude from maybe "Midnight Cowboy" to "The Deer Hunter" where really interesting films were regularly nominated and often won, and there was always some politically-charged controversy that made news. (And even there, there were bizarre reversions to form like "The Sting.") But there's still almost always one nomination rooting for in any given year, and for me, this year, that was Church. Ditto for Murray (twice), Forster, and Reynolds from the above list, which is why I singled out Supporting Actor oversights--I think it's been the most interesting and maddening category of recent times.