It's understanding why Star Wars, Nicolas Cage and M. Night Shyamalan are on a list of folks/things in Hollywood that need a reality check. But the late Heath Ledger as #1 on the list? Wow, that is cold. Enjoy this deliciously evil article from Film Threat. If you've had to suffer through lots of bad movies and feel nauseous at the thought of Hollywood celebrities, this article will make your day.

Film Threat: It's Fall, so it must be time to check the value of all the players in Hollywood. Power list after ranked power list will find their ways online (remember when they used to be in print!?!), none of them based on anything beyond some box office success and sex appeal. The former being no way to judge quality, the latter being subjective at best. We here at Film Threat aren't above the Fall list fever, however. In fact, we have an annual list of our own – The Frigid 50: The Coldest People in Hollywood. Unlike those other lists that brown-nose their way into some pampered celebrity's good graces, the Frigid 50 is a written declaration of who or what in Hollywood needs a reality check, detailing the least-powerful, least-inspiring, least-intriguing people in all of Tinseltown. Before a career is over (or in some cases, immediately after), it finds itself sitting in Frigid 50 territory.

Errol Morris, an Academy Award winner in 2004 for his documentary The Fog of War, is among the 15 filmmakers who have made next year's Oscar shortlist.

Morris' Standard Operating Procedure, a study of torture in Abu Ghraib in Iraq, survived a preliminary round of voting by the Academy's documentary branch steering committee.

Along with such films as German director Werner Herzog's Antarctica-set Encounters at the End of the World and Stacy Peralta's gang study Made in America, it is now eligible to compete for one of the five slots in the feature documentary category.

Nominations in all categories will be announced on January 22, with the awards taking place a month later in Hollywood.

Bill Maher's religious satire Religulous, the top-grossing documentary of the year with domestic sales of $12.6 million, failed to make the list. But plenty of other hot-button topics were represented.

PHOTO: Trouble the Water, a documentary on the Katrina disaster, is on the short-list 

There’s no question that between viral hits such as “Yes We Can” and his dramatic speech on race, YouTube helped President-elect Barack Obama win this election. But just because the campaign’s over doesn’t mean Obama is ditching his online video success.

Obama delivered the weekly national Democratic address via YouTube this week, marking the first time the address has been released as web video.

NewTeeVee: The blogs are abuzz this morning with a new prediction from Screen Digest analyst Arash Amel, who says that Hulu will generate as much revenue as YouTube next year. What’s surprising about this statement is that it isn’t surprising at all. In fact, in the current race between the two online video rivals, the upstart Hulu is starting to feel like President-elect Barack Obama, while YouTube is looking more like McCain.