Everyone I know is screaming for Alan to get nominated, but there's this sort of elitist "clique" of uber-Alan fans who think it would be an insult if he IS nominated, because they think that A-he deserved it far more for earlier performances (that point I can agree on), and B-the only people who would care are "Snape girly fans" who only discovered who Alan is through the Potter films, and therefore think that Snape automatically equals Alan. Their logic does not resemble normal Earth logic, I think Alan deserves the nomination on the merits of the work he did on the film, and I think if he doesn't get it the only thing it will show is that the Academy is a group of snobs who thought nothing of giving Ian McKellen a nomination for playing Gandalf, but would balk at giving Alan one becuase Harry Potter is "kiddie" stuff. :<