BEST CHILD PERFORMANCES? AND WHY NO OSCAR CONSIDERATIONS FOR THIS MOVIE?

@Matt Parks: Agree on Saoirse Ronan in “Atonement”. Definitely better than Keira Khightley :D

how about the old school pros?
Peggy Ann Garner in “A Tree Grows In Brooklyn” – although she did get the juvenile Academy Award
Roddy McDowall in “How Green Was My Valley”

Thomas Turgoose in This Is England is one one the most memorable in recent years.
As for the Leon Oscar discussion, I doubt that the Academy would bestow awards upon a French action in which a twelve year old girl attempts to seduce the much older man who is training her to be a contact killer. Doesn’t matter if its brilliant, they frown on that.