1.   Supposedly, this nomination shows that stodgy, old academy voters are hipper, less traditional, younger.

2.   Academy Award-winning animated shorts are usually seen by, aside from the academy voters, about a dozen moviegoers.

3.   Academy voters may be convinced.

4.   Academy voters, like the Golden Globes electors before them, had a soft spot for supporting spouses, giving Oscars to Connelly and Jim Broadbent.

5.   Academy voters eat this stuff up.

6.   Again the academy voters got it right.

7.   But an emergency tracheotomy, which left her close to death, was enough to sway academy voters.

8.   But academy voters undoubtedly figured that those two would eventually get theirs, which they did, and Wayne was a longtime star at the end of his career.

9.   But nothing prevents the studios from sending out glossy souvenir booklets about their films, if they are not aimed exclusively at academy voters.

10.   For one thing, the academy voters are no longer dominated by the Old Guard that made Hollywood a company town.