Academy Awards

Ignore them.  I've seen an amazing run of movies lately, including I am Cuba, Waltz with Bashir, The Class (worth twenty papers on the economics of education or more), Coraline (in 3-D is a must), and Silent Light, the latter being about Mennonites in Mexico.  Not to mention Gran Torino.  Elsewhere, Jason Kottke appreciates 1999 for film.