barkingmoose

I admit my exposure to foreign language films has been limited this year, so I was willing to accept that the Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign Film, the Bosnian No Man’s Land, might be more deserving of the award than Amélie, the best film I’ve seen in recent memory. After all, they are the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. But then they go and award best motion picture to the forgettable A Beautiful Mind, and best actor to the predictable Russell Crowe. So forget what I said about Amélie. They were wrong. There were some good choices—Gene Hackman in The Royal Tenenbaums, Kiefer Sutherland in “24,” and awards for Rachel Griffiths and best series “Six Feet Under”—but not enough.

In other awards news, the finalists for the 2002 Bloggies are due to be released on Monday, as are the selections for the 2002 SXSW Web Awards. I’ll be watching both with much interest.

Update: At 6 o’clock et Monday night, the SXSW finalists are finally posted. Kinda disappointing. Still no sign of the Bloggies.

Another update: From Fairvue, host of the Bloggies—“The posting of the Bloggie finalists has been delayed by a few days. That is all.” Uhh.

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