Oscar nominations are out – yippee!! It’s definitely an interesting year for them. My favorite is the quantity of quality nomations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress – women are definitely getting more interesting film roles these days (although there are still no Best Director female nominees). In that regard, the Hours was just stunning – strong female roles where the characters were not supporting men, not sex toys, had significant character development that had nothing to do with men and talked about things other then men. Wow.

Of course, the cake of the Oscar nominations has to be Donald Kaufman’s nomination for “Best Adapted Screenplay”… that’s just *great*