Food-Related Movies Nominated for Academy Awards

Food movies will be well-represented at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, where a handful of movies about food and the food industry are among the nominees. Meryl Streep was nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of Julia Child in Julie & Julia. The documentary Food, Inc., which takes a stark look at the food industry in the United States, was nominated for Best Feature Documentary. And two food-related films were nominated for Animated Short Film: French Roast by Fabrice O. Joubert, about a man in a café who is unable to pay for his coffees and runs into trouble when he accepts help from a fellow diner, and A Matter of Loaf and Death by Nick Park, which features the animated characters Wallace and Gromit opening a bakery where the bakers mysteriously disappear.