Shut In and Shut Out: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and The Savages

I'm over the fact that my two fave films of the year: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly and The Savages fell short of winning a little gold statue last night. Apparently, the French-language TDBATB ran a PR campaign to NOT be nominated for the Foreign Language film honors and Laura Linney (Wendy Savage in The Savages) and her sweet smile got so much coverage last night that I feel she got honored nonetheless. In any case, I wanted to make sure that you saw snippets of these both fascinatingly sweet films dealing with bittersweet subjects.