Oscar Nominations-Congrats!!

Hi to all, I'm a longtime lurker (er, "guest"..) who just signed up. <BR>Congrats to all who had a part in making the movie for the 13 nominations, but I'm a little pessimistic going into the awards. I've seen "A Beautiful Mind", and it's just the kind of performance-driven, emotion-wringing story of adversity and redemption the the Academy just eats up. (Though you want to talk deviations from the book!... I just finished reading the biography the movie is based on, and whooo boy did they play fast and loose with John Nash's actual life...). I fear we're going to go the way of all epic fantasy flicks and clean up in the lesser categories and get shut out in the big ones. FOTR's AFI award predated A Beuatiful Mind's wide release, the Golden Globes were probably a better barometer. Oh, well, hopefully I'm WRONG, and anyway it is going to be VERY cool just to have FOTR be mentioned so often and be such a big player during the ceremonies.... Cheers, all!