• Thom Yorke and Gustavo Santaolalla to join forces on “Terminator Salvation” tunes?? [The Playlist]
• Tom O’Neil spotlights the BAFTA voting process. [Gold Derby]
• T.L. Stanley on the politics of Dustin Lance Black’s WGA acceptance speech. [Gold Rush]
• David Poland says Universal dropped the ball on “Frost/Nixon,” as represented by its incredibly weak box office showing. [The Hot Blog]
• Along a similar line of thought, and in an increasingly popular column idea the past week or so, Peter Sciretta comments on three of this year’s Best Picture nominees being among the lowest grossers in Academy history. [/Film]
• Presumably out of ideas for the time being, Jeff Wells goes seeking advanced word on “The Road” at…IMDb. [Hollywood Elsewhere]
• Barry Levinson writes a love letter to Mickey Rourke. Did they kick the tires and light the fires in the nick of time for this campaign to push on ahead? [New York Times]
• Bolt and the other characters who transformed cinema. [The Independent]
• Roger Ebert predicts a handful of the categories, steps out on a limb for Viola Davis. [Chicago Sun-Times]
• Across the pond, newly minted BAFTA winner Penelope Cruz explains why she can’t stop crying. [The Sunday Times]
• Richard Brody spots a mole on the set of Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island.” Well, not really — it’s actually a Cahiers du Cinema-sponsored Argentinian filmmaker/mentee. [The New Yorker]