I hear that Syriana handily beat out contenders such as Cinderalla Man for Golden Globe awards. Based on the feedback I'd received, viewers seemed stunned by and enthusiastic about Cinderella Man (I've been told repeatedly I must see it), whereas Syriana seems to have generally come across as somewhat muddled and confusing.

Couldn't be the politics, could it?

I also hear that Constant Gardner won. Didn't know much about it -- certainly, it didn't seem to do much at the box office -- but based on this hilarious review, I can see why Hollywood lefties might be falling over themselves to praise it. Seriously, read the review, especially the last sections.

[Director Fernando Meirelles] told a University of Texas campus paper about filming in Kenya, “It was a great experience. Like an al-Qaeda training camp.” Lest that statement merely seem like an ill-chosen analogy, Meirelles later made the same positive comparison of his crew’s operational base to al-Qaeda in an interview with the Seattle Times.

And who says Hollywood moguls are anti-American?