Kate Gypped by Academy

In reviewing the nomination lists for both the SAG Awards and the Oscars, one stumbles upon a glaring omission. The Academy has decided to ignore Kate Winslet's work in "Revolutionary Road" and give her one nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role for "The Reader," a role that both the Golden Globes and SAG have recognized as supporting.

This snub is just another selective, political and, dare I say, semitic bias that continues to be exercised by the academy. Further fueling that whispered notion that if you do a film about the holocaust - you win an Oscar, or likewise, write a book about the holocaust and win a Pulitzer. This is getting ridiculously, blatantly obvious and it has to stop.

I don't know if anyone else got the joking aside made by Ricky Gervais to Kate at the Globes? This was a reference to an episode of "Extras" that Kate appeared in, as herself, in 2005. In it the extras worked on a holocaust drama, in which Winslet's character proclaimed (off-camera) that the role was undertaken because she knew it would get her an Oscar.

So now we are embroiled in a Hollywood game of chicken, whereby, if Kate doesn't win, then I'm proven wrong. And if she does win, Ricky's prescient bit of clichéd Hollywood irony is proven true and in the end: art imitates art imitates life.