Wilde? Unfortunately no.
Oscar nomination announcements are usually accompanied with cries of dismay by film fans across the globe. So before I make a list of nominations and attach predictions, here's the 5 most outrageous snubs/selections of the year:
5. Bruce Springsteen's song in The Wrestler - SNUBBED
I don't get this at all. Mostly because the system for selecting a song is voted on by the Academy by assigning a song a score of 6-10. You have to score 8.25 to be considered. Of the 49 songs submitted, only 3 scored highly enough. This may be the most damning testament to the Academy's "taste" since their selection of the Titanic for best picture.
4. Robert Downey Jr's blaxploitated performance in Tropic Thunder - SELECTED
I take that back, this is much more damning. And that is coming from someone who thought Downey's performance was the best thing about the film. An absurd choice, mostly because of using a nomination slot for what is essentially a throw away selection. Let's keep hoping for Heath's posthumous win in this category.
3. Christopher Nolan's direction of the Dark Knight - SNUBBED
What the heck? I don't know if anyone else saw the Dark Knight. Apparently the fact that it grossed almost (if not more, that remains to be seen) as much as the Titanic didn't help matters. Which is baffling, as that is the only possible reason for the Titanic's ridiculous success. Stephen Daldry's nomination is absurd enough to warrant being on this list, almost, the absurdness of Ron Howard's nomination cancels out Daldry though.
2. The Wrestler - SNUBBED
I don't know how you choose The Reader for best picture over this, that's all I have to say.
1. The Dark Knight - SNUBBED
Once again, I am confused, does anybody else realize this isn't just a Batman movie? That it is the best crime film since Goodfellas?
Anyway, I'll be posting more on the nominees and my predictions later.
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I have gathered a bouquet of other men’s flowers,
and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.
~John Bartlett
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
~Oscar Wilde
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
~George Orwell
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
~Bob Dylan
Music rots when it gets too far from the dance.
Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
~Ezra Pound
A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I really do.
~Tony Blair
Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar?
~Percy Shelley
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
~David Mamet
If you grew up with holes in ya zapatos,
You'd celebrate the minute you was havin' dough.
~Jay-Z
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
~Jean-Luc Godard
How fortunate for governments that the people they govern do not think.
~Adolph Hitler
I'll always love the game, but the game don't love nobody.
~Jim Brown
Today will never happen again.
~Lacey
and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.
~John Bartlett
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
~Oscar Wilde
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
~George Orwell
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
~Bob Dylan
Music rots when it gets too far from the dance.
Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
~Ezra Pound
A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I really do.
~Tony Blair
Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar?
~Percy Shelley
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of Aesthetic Truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
~David Mamet
If you grew up with holes in ya zapatos,
You'd celebrate the minute you was havin' dough.
~Jay-Z
To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
~Jean-Luc Godard
How fortunate for governments that the people they govern do not think.
~Adolph Hitler
I'll always love the game, but the game don't love nobody.
~Jim Brown
Today will never happen again.
~Lacey
3 comments:
5. Bruce Springsteen's song in The Wrestler - SNUBBED
Do not know much here so I'll keep my opinion to myself
4. Robert Downey Jr's blaxploitated performance in Tropic Thunder - SELECTEd
I am with you, a "what the hell" is this, the academy must be having a laugh
3. Christopher Nolan's direction of the Dark Knight - SNUBBED
Agreed, my friend
2. The Wrestler - SNUBBED
Yeah, I have not seen the film, but I just do not understand the selections verses the snubbed
1. The Dark Knight - SNUBBED
Again I am with you, although on the Heath Ledger thing, dont get me wrong he would deserve it, but he is dead and I am just not that sentimental. You need to be alive.
What do you think of all the Milk picks? Deserving?
I've seen the politically correct gay movie before...shoulda called it brokeback election. Plus gus van snooze...boring.
all you need to know about the wrestler song/snub is see the movie, and then maybe know that Springsteen already won the golden globe for the song.
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