Getting a look at the rest of the nominations, a few more comments... The cynical view that dead jews are tough to beat in The Academy was sustained by The Reader, a movie with limited ad budget, a conflicted lead actress, and very mixed reviews pushing right past the mega-movie and the hard push for Doubt. Scott Rudin will have to hang tightly onto his Oscar for last year after getting smacked in the nose on both Doubt and the less surprising miss, Revolutionary Road.