Snubbed
A Fandango poll is reporting that the biggest surprise, according to the majority (34%) of respondents, was the nomination of John Hawkes for Best Supporting Actor in Winter’s Bone. There was also a “Top 10 Oscar Nomination Snubs of 2011″ poll, and the results are as follows: (1) Christopher Nolan, Best Director, Inception (48%); (2) Tangled – Best Animated Feature (9%); (3) Mila Kunis — Best Supporting Actress, Black Swan (8%); (4) Despicable Me – Best Animated Feature (6%); (5) Ryan Gosling — Best Actor, Blue Valentine (6%); (6) Waiting for Superman – Best Documentary (5%); (7) Black Swan – Best Original Screenplay (5%); (8) Andrew Garfield – Best Supporting Actor, The Social Network (5%); Julianne Moore – Best Actress, The Kids are All Right (4%), and (10) Inception — Best Editing (3%).
Taking it out to 10 snubs is a huge stretch, and it is reflected in the fall off in percentage after the #1 snub for Nolan; everything else registers in the single digits.
Nolan is the only really legit snub, and the Fandango poll got that one right. Inception, in general, never really gathered any steam in the awards season.
WAITING FOR SUPERMAN really was kind of shocking once the dust settled. One of the more crucial documentaries in awhile and at the center of the most important domestic issue.
I’d guess the reason the percentages are mostly in the single digits is most Fandago users didn’t see any of those movies, most of which were total limited release arthouse fare that played in a handful of theaters in December and are just now going wide.
I’d wager not even 1% of Fandango users saw Winter’s Bone or Blue Valentine, probably not more than 5% even know who Andrew Garfield is… Mostly it’s a random poll asking, “Who do you remember from the Globes last week who’s not on today’s list?”
The reason most of those percentages are mostly in the single digits is because almost half of those polled chose Nolan as “the biggest snub.”
Simple math, is it not?
I don’t even get the Black Swan script being a choice.
Waiting for Superman got snubbed because it’s anti-union. And Hollywood is a union town. (Old article, but as true now as then.)
TRON not being up for Visual FX is a bit of a diss, I feel, especially when you look at some of the generic shit that did make the cut – Harry Potter, Iron man, and….HEREAFTER?
Martin Blank, very good point. To their eternal shame.
wait, can someone clear this up for me: i thought reznor and atticus ross were ineligible for best score since TSN used some of reznor’s pre-existing material?
for me, the biggest snub came in the best supporting actor category. how lotso huggin bear wasn’t one of the top 5 performances is truly beyond me…
Waiting For Superman is NOT an anti union movie. It’s an anti deadbeat movie. I talked to Davis Guggenheim about this at a film festival. He is not anti the teachers union and doesn’t feel the film paints all teachers as lazy. Their union however does support a system that let’s some teachers sit in a room doing crossword puzzles for three years while waiting for some bogus hearing that gets them another lazy teaching gig. The unions in Hollywood don’t support people who don’t work hard at their craft and that distinction I hope was obvious to them. I still think Superman is one of the best docs in the last ten years and am sad It didn’t make the cut. Maybe the nomination process needs a lottery.
Am I really so alone in finding the Daft Punk snub equally shocking to the Nolan snub?
Olivia Williams overlooked for The Ghostwriter, as was the film, itself. That’s the problem when you release in March.
Oh, wait, so was Winter’s Bone; there’s goes my argument… Bah! Williams was robbed.
ok can someone explain the end of Animal Kingdom to me. why doesnt jacki weaver react more viscerally?
Billy, fair point, we’re just talking backs against the wall knee-jerk perception, especially as fomented by Weingarten.
berkguru: To put it crudely, because J is the new alpha, and it wouldn’t be wise.
thanks Disco. I dug that movie and her performance but the end was off putting.
Mila Kunis deserved a nomination.
Why is that, Harry?
John Hawkes is really a best actor. I just like his style of acting. He is a great human being. I think Hollywood needs more John Hawkes!!
DuluozGray, I just thought she was tremendous in the film; diabolical at one turn, imminently fun yet manipulative at another. The film doesn’t work nearly as well if the actor opposite Portman, her rival, doesn’t match her talents every step of the way. I thought Kunis did that.
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