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Spirit Award nominations are out! Spirit Award nominations are out! Okay maybe you aren’t as excited as I am and to be honest I could give a rat’s left cancer-filled testicle about them, but if you are in the business of trying to predict Oscar nominations, then the Spirit Awards are a good indication.

Someone give me a drum solo…and the nominees are:

Best Feature

• The Last Station
• Precious
• (500) Days of Summer
• Amreeka
• Sin Nombre

Best Female Actress

• Maria Bello – Downloading Nancy
• Nisreen Faour – Amreeka
• Helen Mirren – The Last Station
• Gabourey Sidibe – Precious
• Gwyneth Paltrow – Two Lovers

Best Male Actor

• Jeff Bridges – Crazy Heart
• Colin Firth – A Single Man
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt – (500) Days of Summer
• Souleymane Sy Savane – Goodbye Solo
• Adam Scott – The Vicious Kind

Best Director

• Ethan and Joel Coen – A Serious Man
• Lee Daniels – Precious
• Cary Joji Fukunaga – Sin Nombre
• James Gray – Two Lovers
• Michael Hoffman – The Last Station

How G.I. Joe and Jennifer’s Body don’t make this list is beyond me. Those are the only two movies I even cared to see this year and if this organization can’t recognize their brilliance then I am uncertain of the legitimacy of these nominations. It doesn’t matter I guess. I am cheering for Cary Joji Fukunaga because the name is beyond awesome and it’s cool to know that an Asian sounding person directed a Spanish flick. It is similar to when people see me driving. They cheer me on because I have no eyes.

And for some reason my nose covers my belly button. Don’t ask.