Will Someone Give Bill Murray An Oscar Already?

Oscar is fickle about comedians. Oscar eludes those who seek him. Will someone give the Oscar to Bill Murray already? His performance in Sophia Copolla's Lost In Translation was brilliantly subtle.

Imagine a Best Oscar going to an underplayed performance. Denzel Washington's dirty cop was the most powerful and full-on performance in recent years and it would be wonderful to have Bill Murray's declining Hollywood actor in a foreign land win it this time around.

Murray has been snubbed by Oscar. He has never been nominated and that is a crime. Murray was endearing and complex in Rushmore. He was a rich personality in The Razor's Edge. And Murray was overlooked as the subtle but wildly funny psychiatrist in The Mighty Tennenbaum's.

My favorite Bill Murray flik is Meatballs, which is also the first film I ever saw. To me Bill Murray is the coolest man on the planet earth.