Manipulators
Did you even watch Andromeda Strain? I know you received a screener of it. Was “For Your Consideration” and “Produced by Ridley Scott” all you needed to know about it to carbon copy its’ name back onto the nominations form?
4 hours of the most embarrassing, mindless dreck I watched this year–an absolute slap in the face to the original (which didn’t have a single element that wasn’t far and away superior–37 years ago–to this committee-stamped low budget travesty) gets SEVEN god-damned nominations?
Let’s put that in a little perspective. 13 hours of Battlestar Galactica got 6 nominations (counting one for a short-form featurette). The final Season of THE WIRE got exactly ONE NOMINATION–and THE WIRE has never been nominated for Best Drama. But, again, Andromeda Strain 2008 gets SEVEN NOMINATIONS.
I really hope whatever payola or influence peddling the production company used on you was worth both your personal dignity and whatever little dignity was left in your academy. I now have more respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.