Vera Farmiga was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award last year.

Hmmmmm. The middle of that last post got cut off, right above the link. I tried to say that I had not been able to find a good, consolidated calendar of all the key dates in the Oscar race on one page, so I created one -- at that link.

I think that the fact that The Producers still only has one vote to get into the Best Picture race shows how out of touch your "Oscar experts" are with Academy voters.

I also think that my Oscar preview column yesterday was probably read by more people than the number of people who read Emanuelle Levy's site in a month, which shows how out of touch you are with the world part of the "world wide web."

That blunt enough for ya?

EDouglas, if you see this: where is your column located? You may have more readers than Emanuel Levy, but at least I know how to find his stuff.