Robert Altman just received his first posthumous recognition, nominated for Best Director in the 2006 Independent Spirit Awards. You could have counted A Prairie Home Companion one of my favorite movies of 2006 before we lost him, but I wonder if Posthumous Award Syndrome is going to kick in and he'll get nommed for stuff he wouldn't have were he still alive to aggravate publicists and studio execs in new and exciting ways. He deserved the Oscar in 2001 for Gosford Park...but I digress. Who thinks Altman might take the gong instead of Eastwood or Scorsese? If it's a question of it being overdue...this is the Academy's last chance, and sentimentality wins often at AMPAS.