I guess I've only seen one of the movies up for best picture (True Grit). While I have Inception I haven't got around to watching it yet. Odd- it doesn't look like the kind of film that's usually nominated. But I guess the Academy is making an effort to include more populist and genre films. Since LoTR won it the field is probably more open for other types of films.
No slight to any of the other actors nominated, but if Bridges were to win again it wouldn't be undeserved. Was he always this good and I just didn't notice it or has he grown into one of the most exceptional actors working today? He so completely inhabits the role of Rooster Cogburn that at no point in the film did it occur to me that I was watching an actor or that the role could ever have been played on anyone else. It seems he doesn't act, he just is. Amazing.
