Bittersweet news: The Oscars

Okay.
So, most of you (hopefully) know that The Dark Knight is my favorite movie, right?
Well, I was browsing around on the internet today, and I found the one and only Oscar nominations! I like watching things like the Oscars, Golden Globes, and People's Choice Awards, okay?

Anyway, I was looking through it, and I gasped three times total. One was happy, and two were shocked and not-so-happy.

Let's start with the shocked, not-so-happy gasps:

1) The Dark Knight got SNUBBED! It didn't get nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, or Best Adapted Screenplay. I'm not the only one shocked here. Many others are, too.

2) Leonardo DiCaprio didn't get nominated for his role in Revolutionary Road! I mean, I never saw the movie, but it's Leonardo DiCaprio. He's one of my favorite actors!

So yeah.

Let me add before I go on. The Dark Knight kind of recieved some nominations. Just not any of the cool ones like Best Movie and Best Director. It got nominated for things like:
Best Cinematography - Wally Pfister
Best Art Direction - Nathan Crowley, Peter Lando
Best Film Editing - Lee Smith
Best Makeup - John Caglione Jr. and Conor O'Sullivan
Best Sound Editing - Richard King
Best Sound Mixing - Lora Hirschberg, Gary Rizzo, and Ed Novick
Best Visual Effects - Nick Davis, Christ Corbould, Tim Webber, Paul Franklin

So, I guess that's eight nominations (counting the one below), which puts the movie in third place for most nominations (Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionair have 13 and 10, plus Milk also has eight). But still, it makes me (and many others) mad that it wasn't nominated for Best Picture or at least Best Director. Hopefully it'll win some of the above awards, though. :)

Now, my one happy, joyful gasp:

1) Heath Ledger got nominated for Best Supporting Actor in The Dark Knight as the Joker. :)

Today is the one-year anneversary of Heath's death, and his nomination was also announced today, which is kind of ironic.

Well, I guess that's all.