12 inches of Oscar.

Yeah.

- Three out of nine nominees that I saw in the last year: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, The Shape of Water and...

- Get Out was nominated for Best Picture, Original Screenplay, Best Director and Best Actor. Not bad for a "MAD TV" veteran.

- The Boss Baby and Ferdinand were nominated for Best Animated Feature, but not only was one of the best animated features (The LEGO Batman Movie) shut out, but so, too, was - easily - the best animated feature of the year (Your Name.). It was eligible for 2016, but only made its way into theaters this past April and it wasn't even submitted for Oscar consideration. What fucking planet am I even living on? It's all moot, anyway: Coco is gonna take it all.

- Logan nominated for Adapted Screenplay. I'll be goddamned.

- Amazingly, despite deafening buzz, that's the only category where The Disaster Artist and Molly's Game were honored. I liked James Franco in the former, but this is the season for accusations and, to quote Clive Owen in Inside Man, "The further you try to run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they finally catch up to you. And they will." I'd have bet money on Jessica Chastain getting nominated for the latter. Still, with her talent and choice of projects, she'll probably have as many nominations and wins as Meryl Streep by the time she reaches Streep's current age.

- Only one nomination for The Big Sick - Original Screenplay - but it's still a deserving one.

- First-time nominations for Mary J. Blige, Timothee Chalamet, Allison Janney, Daniel Kaluuya, Lesley Manville, Laurie Metcalf, Margot Robbie and Sam Rockwell.

- I will concede that I haven't seen Get Out since last year, but while I'm happy he was nominated and wish him well, I wouldn't have thought that Kaluuya's work was 'Best Actor nominee' good. I'll have to watch it again.

- And just to address the 800-lb pile of elephant shit in the room, yes, Dunkirk (despite the wealth of good scores available to Academy voters) landed in the Best Original Score category. There is still a chance that it could lose the award, thus sparing us from more movies sounding just like it (post about that to come), but for now, I'll just be listening to Pacific Heights and remembering the days when Hans Zimmer was called upon to write music and not noise.