Hurray for Hollywood!
Shocker! Waiting for Superman, the most heavily promoted documentary of all time, was snubbed for an Oscar nomination!
The film failed to get an Oscar nod, despite millions spent on making and promoting it by the privateers. Did Diane Ravitch's brilliant critique in the NY Review of Books have a negative effect?
Here's the first article in Movieline, back in November, that suggested her scathing review might hurt the film’s chances to win, but I don’t think anyone anticipated it would not be nominated.
Here’s the analysis by Valerie Strauss in the Washington Post which