Let's Drive

Elated that Drive got some notice from the recent BAFTA noms with 4, including for Director and Picture! There is a reason this won at Cannes for Best Director (Nicolas Winding Refn) over The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick). It sure might be an action film, but good mercy, it is so much more! Hope the Oscars will pay similar attention next week, too, and with Albert Brooks added in!

I will mainly be happy if both of those directors get a nom. Oscars should not be about stamina and the body of work from a person; it's about specific films when it's competitive. Loved the metaphysical, bigger-picture The Tree of Life and the awesomely experiential Drive, and they're neck-and-neck on my favorites list from 2011.