Dependent filmmaking is honored by Oscar

We bloggers get up at dawn for no one. Except, of course, for our weird uncle, Oscar.

Since we’re up, we might as well tell you it’s an odd list of movies for best picture this year: Aside from the expected slew of nominations from “Brokeback Mountain” which the AP points out led the Academy Awards tally with eight, it was largely specialized studio-owned “dependie” film divisions that got all the love.

Also nominated for best picture: United Artists’ last gasp, “Capote”; Warner Independent Picture’s “Good Night, and Good Luck”; Lions Gate’s “Crash” got in the door.

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