I really do believe that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is retarded. With Chicago being nominated a record 13 times, it must be a sign of the apocalypse. Adaptation, About Schmidt, Far from Heaven, and Punch Drunk Love were all ignored for the lion's share of nominations. Which just goes to show that the people doing the voting have absolutely no sense of taste in film. While Chicago is nothing but a flashy bunch of musical cliches, there was a bunch of films worth viewing and a couple of big epics that should have been the first ones considered.