Seems like every year, there are a few great movies that despite good reviews, initial studio support, technical excellence, and immediate and permanent insinuation into our brainpans, don't get much respect come awards time. You know what we mean. For us, the prime example will always be Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which blew our minds in 2004 but opened way out of awards season -- and despite the efforts of all involved was way too committed to being a sci-fi/head movie/freakout to ever really have a shot at more than its single Oscar win, for Original Screenplay. (And that was in a movie year that strikes us today as pretty darn boring.)
So behold, in honor of Eternal Sunshine and movies like it, we present the Lacuna List: our way of saying "Good show!" to movies that we're pretty sure will slip through the cracks come Oscar time. We got a few of nominations for 2007 -- maybe y'all got some too? Have a look and let us know what you think.
PS: Anyone know how to make a photo look like an award? We are *so* bad at Photoshop.
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