Those were among the best reviewed film of the year. Aside from Passion what else would you have nominated?
I don't like watching trash, gratituous violence, and other junk so what I see at the theater is limited. I really enjoyed "The Phantom of the Opera" and "The Incredibles," the latter of which was nominated for Best of in appropriate categories.
My other remark was meant to indicate that hollywood most often these days promotes and rewards trash, junk, meaningless death, no morals, yada yada yada, the lowest common denominators. That is their myopia. They have lost their ability to lift their eyes and get out of the hole they dug for themselves a few decades back. They need to come up and "breathe the free air again."