Okay, let me start off by saying I'm glad the Joker won best supporting actor. But The Dark Knight was clearly the best movie of the year, and it didn't even get a nomination.
Slumdog Millionare is currently rated 35th on imdb's top 250 films (though it got a bump from the oscar win) so it's clearly a good film. Dark Knight however, is rated 6. According to imdb, only 5 films ever have been better than Dark Knight. According to this list, Slumdog isn't even as good as The Matrix, while Dark Knight is just slightly better than Schindler's List.
Not to mention that Dark Knight has widespread popularity - it opened to universal acclaim and has a worldwide box office take of over 1 BILLION dollars, not to mention DVD sales. Slumdog Millionaire is a film that I had never heard of until it was nominated.
The last time a film got this much box office take was Titanic, a terrible POS movie that its fans would defend at the time, but now in retrospect admit was pretty terrible. Then, the Acadamy gave into the clear voice of the public and gave it 11 Oscars, including Best Picture (though none for the TERRIBLE acting).
Slumdog Millionare on the other hand, did not have a widely sucessful release, in fact, it was almost released straight to DVD. It's opening weekend it made only 360,000 placing 24th in Box office take that weekend. Let me repeat: It opened in 24th place. At this point, The Dark Knight was in its 18th week in theaters and still solidly trounced it.
Can it really be the "Best Picture" if nobody cares enough to watch it?
Now, as I said, it's clearly a good picture to make imdb's top 250. And if Slumdog had narrowly defeated Dark Knight I'd be fine (actually I'd still be pissed, though not enough to do an in depth, researched blog post). But the fact that what America and the world have shown to be the best WASN'T EVEN NOMINATED.
I'll tell you what this is: it's comic book discrimination and I will not stand for it.
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