Thanks to www.stopbenlyons.com for posting a great video from The Charlie Rose Show as well as a related LA Times article. I've thought this was a disappointing year and was underwhelmed by Benjamin Button and I'm not alone. Film critics David Denby and A.O. Scott discuss the ho-hum year and also have an interesting discussion about Button. Scott and Rose defend it but I agree more with Denby: extraordinarily well done but undramatic and hollow. Skip ahead to 16:33 to see Scott and Denby discuss the films. I especially liked Scott's opening line: "The Oscar's are an odd phenomenon because what they are about the American film industry's image of themselves."