The Hollywood Foreign Press has voted to move Hustle & Flow into the Drama category. This means Hustle star Terrence Howard will have to be nominated for Best Actor, and not Best Actor in a Musical, and if he gets nominated (which of course he should be…he’s monumental in that role) he’ll be going up against Heath Ledger, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Ralph Fiennes…and one of those three will almost certainly win. So even though it’s idiotic (to put it mildly) to call Hustle & Flow a musical, the HFPA should have stuck to their loony-tunes classification because now the most Howard can look forward to is a Best Actor nomination. Bottom line: the HFPA has basically fucked him.
