Oscar time!

You know you've turned over a new year on the calendar when movies start vying for top honors at awards shows. The Golden Globes this year was basically a non-event due to the writer's strike, but the big kahuna of award shows is just around the corner.

The Academy Award nominations were announced this morning and you can read the complete list here. Chris and I are big movie buffs and try to at least see all the top nominated pictures, which usually include another category such as director and original and/or adapted screenplay.

Of the top 5 movies, so far we've seen "No Country for Old Men," There Will Be Blood," and "Juno." I wasn't really that interested in "Michael Clayton," but I might have to check it out. "Atonement" also didn't hold much appeal and friends who have seen it weren't all that impressed.

The Best Actor race also looks pretty interesting although I think that Daniel Day-Lewis will take the Oscar. I really loved Viggo Mortenson in Eastern Promises and I was surprised that it wasn't nominated for either Best Picture or that David Cronenberg wasn't nominated for Best Director.

Chris always ends up watching about half of the telecast and then stomps off in frustration because so and so didn't win. We've had Oscar parties in the past but then we end up not paying attention to the show and I end up missing half of it. The past few years, we've just had a few movie-buff friends over to join us and we may end up doing the same thing this year.

Oh, and I love to be catty about the outfits :)