Summer movies are indeed a wasteland (putting the odd "Inception" aside). But the winter crop was very good -- The King's Speech, Black Swan, True Grit and the Social Network were for me the most _enjoyable_ set of Oscar nom'ed movies for years.

And the King's Speech had a budget of $15M and got very good ROI. (The others had very good ROI too.) Let's hope the beancounters pay attention.