Yesterday, in my Oscar predictions blog, I feared the worst and begged the Academy not to give a spot among the 10 nominees for Best Picture to *The Blind Side*, a football family drama of more than usual puking sentimentality. So, of course, the Academy put it right in contention, along with nine rather reasonable choices (*Avatar, District 9, An Education, The Hurt Locker, Inglourious Basterds, Precious, A Serious Man, Up* and *Up in the Air*). Why *The Blind Side* wasn’t replaced by something serious (*The Messenger*), stylish (*Star Trek*), hilarious (*The Hangover*), romantic (*(500) Days of Summer*), innovative (*Where the Wild Things Are*), Clint-ish (*Invictus*) or just plain not brain-dead, I can’t tell you. You tell me. What movie would you put in the spot unfairly occupied by *The Blind Side*?

Peter Travers unleashes his anger at *The Blind Side*’s nomination in a special edition of “Damn You, Hollywood!”

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