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Looking forward to Noah. Fantasy is really taking off. Love to see it.

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I mean Dallas Buyers took supporting, it shouldn't have taken both.

Leo deserves a win so bad. He's one of the best actors to have not won an Oscar at all. At least some guys like Bale have supporting wins.
 
Krgrecw said:
Everyone I know thought it would win for that reason. Same reason Crash won and crash wasn't a great movie.
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Everyone you know has terrible taste in movies than. It was up against a number of great and creative movies. Personally I was pulling for Nebraska to win but knew it wouldn't because the academy doesn't give best picture to comedies pretty much ever.

Crash won because it was in a really weak year. If it was up in 04, 06, or 07 it wouldn't have won, regardless of the "PC" aspect.

If the "PC" movies won all of the time why did Hurt Locker beat out precious, the Blind Side, and District 9. Why did the Artist beat out the Help? Why did Million DOllar Baby beat out Ray?

BTW I'm just assuming when you say PC you're talking about movies that portray black people in a good light.

12 years a slave won because it was universally loved by critics, 97% Metacritic score, and it was the only movie that was that highly rated and fit into the likely to win categories. THe more comedic, Her, American Hustle, and Nebraska didn't have much of a chance. Gravity had almost a 0% chance (return of the king is the only Fantasy best oscar winner, no Sci-Fi best winners)

I am curious though, what movie do you think was a slam dunk winner over crash? I would have given it to Capote, and the "PC" choice to me would have been Brokeback Mountain. I'm guessing you would say Munich, which wasn't any better than Crash.

Crash was a good movie, but again, it went up in a weak year, put that up against The Departed, No Country for Old Men, Million Dollar Baby, etc. and it loses whether you think it wouldn't because of being "PC"
 
BTW what do you consider the biggest snub of the Oscars? For me it's Leo personally. I think that he deserved it. He put in an A+ performance, and has been the only one of the group to have been nominated for Best Actor. Second most time put in was by Dern. I don't think McConaughey blew anyone out of the water to beat the more veteran guys like say Adrien Brody in the Pianist. To me this should have been like Denzel winning for Training Day, maybe not the most deserving win, but based on his body of work, he should have won it. Leo's performance in WoWS was like that for me. It wasn't his best performance but it was A+. No one he was up against put out a transcendent performance (ala DDL in Lincoln or There Will Be Blood, Firth in the Kings Speech, Hoffman in Capote, etc.) instead of giving it to someone who put in the performances, they gave it to a first time nominee who's been in the game for 2 decades. It's not like McConaughey is someone breaking on the scene, or forgot about. He's been around for years and just finally put out an Oscar worthy performance.
 
Didn't see Dallas Buyers Club, but heard McConaughey was great. Certainly prepared himself as an actor and I think that earned him the respect of Academy voters. I was pulling for Dern because he finally got the role of his life and he's done a lot of solid work throughout his career. I was ticked that Jane Squibb didn't win for Female Supporting, because she was awesome in "Nebraska" as well and, like Dern, she'd waited forever for a role like this. I just saw Wolf of Wall Street and thought DiCaprio was very good and I would have been totally fine had he won. I think it was a year for good performances along the acting front. Blanchett was also very good in "Blue Jasmine" and it was great to see that recognized. I thought she would fall victim to a pushback regarding Woody Allen's sexual appetites.

As for "12 Years a Slave," the carping started last week from a lot of different quarters about how it was going to win, but how it wasn't the best picture. I'll be buying it tomorrow to check it out. Glad that John Ridley was recognized. The guy is a stone effin' genius and has worked across the board for years. He used to be a solid stand-up comic in a serious "thinking man's" way (think African-American buttoned-down wry version of Bill Maher). I just laugh about the criticism that it was the safe, PC choice. Slavery happened folks and it was really sh*tty for African-Americans. And for those who say, "Yeah, but it was 150 years ago so get over it already," the Serbs continue to fight with their neighbors about crap that happened six centuries ago. Swallow the effin' pill.

PS--I'm glad McConaughey has dumped the rom-com route. He has always been a solid actor going back to "Lone Star" and "A Time to Kill," but he took a detour into stuff that was so wispy it almost blew off the screen. In some ways, I see him as a modern Cary Grant, who was at home in everything from "Bringing Up Baby" to "North by Northwest."
 
Having watched a handful of the best pictures (missed a few of the newer ones) 12 years was as deserving as any movie. Unless you went for something creatively different (like Her) or someone else. Again the problem with most of the similarly highly regarded films is they were comedic or sci-fi movies, which don't win very often.
 
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