Update on Nicole Kidman's Fake Nose:

According to Roger Ebert's always excellent Questions for the Movie Answer Man column, the reason that The Hours wasn't nominated for a Best Makeup Oscar, which it clearly deserves, was because some digital post-production work was done on Nicole Kidman's nose. I'm sure you're all glad that somebody finally cleared this up.

(Ebert's column also spotlights what was, in many ways, the biggest omission from this year's Academy Awards: the amazing City of God, arguably the most exciting and entertaining movie I saw all year, was not nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar, and apparently suffered from massive walkouts during its nomination screenings. Maybe I'm missing something here...but I can't see how someone who cares anything at all about movies could walk out on City of God. Hate it? Maybe. Find it flashy and manipulative? Sure. But walk out?)