LOS ANGELES - The Oscar Nominations were reveled here this morning, and despite all the talk of films like Brokeback Mountain, Munich, and Capote, the real buzz surround perhaps the greatest snub in the Academy's 78-year history.

Despite the strongest year on record for SNMFC Films, the studio was nominated for zero Academy Awards. This after industry executives and bloggers alike expected SNMFC Films to be nominated in several categories, including Chris Rooney for Best Actor in "NNIV Trailer", Tom Marks for Best Director in "JJIX Trailer," and "NNIV Trailer" for Best Animated Short Film.

In fact, there was an audible murmur from the crowd as Mira Sorvino announced "Good Night and Good Luck" as the final nominee for Best Picture, a spot that every filmgoer assumed would be reserved for "NNIII: The Passion of the Chris Trailer".

"Look, this was an agenda year. I respect the Academy's decision, but I think it's a travesty when some of the year's best work fails to get recognition because it doesn't address a social taboo," said a visably upset Tom Marks, CEO of SNMFC Films. Marks had watched the nominations live on television from his home in Southbury, CT.

The statement was puzzling in that several films did appear to advance agendas. For example, Chris Rooney's turn in "NNIV Trailer" as a transvestite attempting to seduce a hoard of Wake Forest football players.

"I guess the academy only had one slot for transvestites, and they gave it to Felicity Huffman," grumbled Rooney.

Similarly, "NNIII: The Passion of the Chris Trailer" appealed to the religious right and advanced the Christian Agenda. But film critic Roger Ebert postulates it was a victim of timing, saying, "America got their fill of the God thing last year with that Mel Gibson movie. The timing wasn't right for another passion play."

Perhaps the timing will be better in 2006, when Mike Shemely takes a star turn as a gigantic monkey who terrorizes downtown New Milford, and Jeff Hoose plays a morally-conflicted special agent who is tasked with exacting revenge for the executions of several SNMFC athletes at the 2002 "Green Mountain Massacre".

January 31, 2006

Mira Sorvino and some other guy giveth and taketh away Oscar Nominations.

Click the above link to see Rooney's star turn in "NNIV Trailer".