Is it leaving The Dark Knight out of Best Picture? Is it WALL-E not making the cut? Winslet's work in Revolutionary Road not being recognized? Nolan being shut out? No love for Springsteen? What got your goat about the nominations?
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my vote is for Springsteen...just to make things clear lol
ReplyDeleteAs much as I hate the Dark Knight being left out, I think it's Winslet's snub for "Revolutionary Road". Yes, she was great in "The Reader", but a double nomination would have been the only right thing to do... she deserved it more than Cate Blanchett for Supporting and Lead last year...
ReplyDeleteThe Dark Knight snub is causing an uproar over at IMDB, it'll take a long time for them to calm down.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it would have deserved a top 5 mention anyway, but so much for what may been the most watched telecast in ages.
I agree with the double for Winslet, but the rules on leading and supporting are strange, so she could have come close to getting two and just missed. In any case, I think that the biggest snub is the entire Original Song category. Not just Springsteen, but Eastwood missing too...and Slumdog getting two, really?
ReplyDeleteTDK and Hawkins are equally miserable snubs for me personally, but in terms of the Academy overall it's gotta be TDK. Picking The Reader instead is just the sort of old-school dumb decision that prevents more people from paying any attention.
ReplyDeleteThe Dark Knight snub (and this year's entire list of nominations) is pretty much one of the biggest AMPAS clusterfucks in history. This is on par with Brokeback Mountain losing Best Picture to Crash. I mean, I always knew deep down this was a long shot, but the guild nominations gave us all some hope for recognition of a truly great work. It would have been ok if something like The Wrestler or WALL-E had taken its place. Hell, I would have even been ok with Gran Torino. But The Reader? Instead of recognizing a film that is not only a massively popular blockbuster, as well as a great work of art, they picked a pornographic account of a sympathetic nazi. Ebert was right, the Academy has a major hard on for holocaust films. Whatever, I'm done with this. I'm sorry but 7 tech nominations and one supporting actor nominations is simply not enough. Especially when you replace it with a film nobody has seen, wants to see, or ever will see. I suppose we were all wrong to give the AMPAS this kind of credibility. The snubbed The Dark Knight and The Wrestler for pretty much anything. The fact that Bruce Springsteen got shut out in favor of the Slumdog lovefest is an embarrassment. I almost wish Benjamin Button would beat Slumdog in everything at this point. I almost wish that Kate Winslet would lose this year simply because of the film she's nominated for. This year not only flat out sucked for the overall films we got, but the AMPAS effectively gave audiences and critics just the kind of thing we all needed to doom this bunch of ass-kissing old farts to irrelevancy and ratings hell. AMPAS, I am done with you.
ReplyDeleteKate's snub for 'Revolutionary Road' for sure. However, there are some good things- Michael Shannon's surprise nod for supporting, 'The Reader' showing up all over the place. In the end, not too bad.
ReplyDeleteFor me Springsteen missing out is horrifing, Bruce should have won, his song is magnificent. And though I love Slumdog (a lot) it should not have had 2 song noms.
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ReplyDeleteOfficially done with the oscars now...they just proved they really don't know what they're on about!
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Definetly Winslet's snub for Revolutionary Road. Her performance in that movie was better than any other female performance of the year, including supporting actress. Today is a sad day for moviegoers.
ReplyDeleteI actually think it's appropriate that Kate didn't get nominated in the supporting category, because her performance in The Reader was in anything but a supporting one. Since she could't get nominated in Lead Actress for two different roles, I think the Academy picked her better performance.
ReplyDeleteI think the biggest snubs, for me, were Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky for best actress and The Dark Knight/Wall-E for best picture. Although the chances of TDK and Wall-E making it weren't very high, I really was hoping at least one of them would sneak in.
Finally, I'm a bit disappointed that Rachel Getting Married didn't get nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
i think the reader is an amazing movie, and i'm glad it's nominated. I would however love to see winslet get two, but one will do!
ReplyDeleteBiggest snub is Springsteen by a mile!
Springsteen and Winslet for RR. Best Picture really isnt that big of deal and wtf at 3 songs
ReplyDeleteFor me, Springsteen in best song and the marvelous Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky are the biggest snubs.
ReplyDeleteWhile Springsteen might have been shadowed by Slumdog's powerful aura (two songs nominated), having Sally Hawkins out of the nominees only shows that Hollywood still doesn't get awesome British acting.
For me, Springsteen in best song and the marvelous Sally Hawkins in Happy-Go-Lucky are the biggest snubs.
ReplyDeleteWhile Springsteen might have been shadowed by Slumdog's powerful aura (two songs nominated), having Sally Hawkins out of the nominees only shows that Hollywood still doesn't get awesome British acting.
Was no one else hoping Gran Torino got some love? I know it didn't have great buzz, but I think it was better than Slumdog, which says a lot (but isn't unjustified)considering the juggernaut Slumdog is this year. Does everyone just expect cinema perfection from Clint these days and not see reason to give it due credit?
ReplyDeleteI really don't understand where the love for this film was.
I was disappointed with the lack of Revolutionary Road love and Hawkins snub.
ReplyDeleteI was hoping James Franco could weasle in a supporting from Milk, but I'm not shocked he didn't.
I think the song category is a joke (not because of what they nominated but what they didn't - three songs on the list? Really?)
As for Gran Torino: I think a lot of people have Eastwood fatigue. I know I do. I was actually secretly rooting that it would be an awful film before it even came out. I know, I know, terrible.
The biggest snub was Revolutionary Road being totally shut out of all the major categories.
ReplyDeleteI am surprised by the three nominations for Best Song - is this another attempt at keeping the broadcast to a time limit?
ReplyDeleteI would have loved to see Kate Winslet get nominated twice, but I know this can also harm chances of winning, with people being torn between performances etc - or apparently, as some people said after Julianne Moore's two noms in Lead and Supporting Actress a few years back.
I really do hope Kate wins but I still fear an upset!
And I have to ask, and do not linch me for it because it is a question borne from curiosity, not my own opinion, but in judging, as fans, what should and shouldn't be nominated, are we getting confused between what is a "good film" in regards to being entertaining and popular, to a "good film" in regards to the mechanics of the art? I know films are supposed to entertain but . . .
But having said that, has there been a film in the last decade that won Best Picture that everyone really believed it deserved it? Brokeback Mountain should definitely have won over Crash, but we knew that was not going to happen.
Chicago? Not in my opinion.
Million Dollar baby? Nope.
Crash. See above re this travesty (as good as Crash was).
The Departed? No, despite the fact another snob may have killed its director.
And at the end of the day, again, it's all nominated and voted on by humans, and, considering the current celebrations in America post the previous administration, we all know that sometimes the majority gets it right, and sometimes they get it horribly wrong!
You know, having read the script for Doubt, I must say I'm surprised for it's nomination for adapted screenplay - I found the script dull and unimaginative, hardly visual at all. Perhaps my expectations were higher, and perhaps it's voted on it's transference into the film. I don't know but I thought, given the writer also wrote the play and directed the film, that it would have been difficult for somebody else to pick up the script and make a workable, decent film out of it without such a powerful cast.
ReplyDeleteClint Eastwood was snubbed big time. Brad Pitt doesn't need a nomination for playing a Forest Gump knock off, that movie was silly enough the first time...why would someone make it again? Also snubbed was Gran Torino in general, the song, screenplay, direction, picture. It's certainly better than Benjamin Button and Frost/Nixon.
ReplyDeleteSally Hawkins...come on! I guess they think people want to see Angelina Jolie in competition for a highly overrated performance.
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