After a few days (and a weekend) to digest what the Academy did with their Oscar nominations, I wanted to chime in now with a look at the biggest snubs from that fateful morning. There has been a lot of attention paid to a handful of snubs, but there are plenty of them, both in terms of large and small films. Obviously I won’t be listing them all, but I do have ten specific ones in mind that I want to share with you now. I’ll also be looking at the surprise nominations in a day or two, but today is for just the snubs. Oscar voters did quite a job ruining a few folks’ morning last week, that was for sure…
Here now are ten of the biggest snubs from last week:
1. The Lego Movie in Best Animated Feature – Especially considering the somewhat weak field, it was an absolute shock that The Lego Movie wasn’t nominated here. Pretty much a lock to have won (or not, knowing what we know now), it would have been the only animated film nominated anywhere else, with its Best Original Song citation. What should have been an inspired choice by the Academy is instead an egregious snub.
2. David Oyelowo in Best Actor – We knew that no one was a lock in Best Actor, but still…David Oyelowo missing for Selma stings. Worse still, it’s possible that he wasn’t even number six, with the equally worthy Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler (consider him an honorable mention) right there with him. Best Actor was the bloodbath it was expect to be, but that doesn’t mean Oyelowo wasn’t a huge miss by voters, because it was.
3. Interstellar in Best Cinematography – My biggest personal snub, seeing Hoyte Van Hoytema’s incredible visuals in Interstellar left out of Best Cinematography is a borderline crime. Big budget science fiction filmmaking with an experimental twist from Christopher Nolan doesn’t come along every day, so while another honorable mention of mine would have been Interstellar missing in Best Picture (though we all knew that was happening), this snub is a real bummer in my eyes.
4. Ava DuVernay in Best Director – Obviously the most publicly derided snub, the writing was somewhat on the wall after the DGA snubbed DuVernay for Selma. Still, she deserved to be in the lineup over someone like Morten Tyldum for The Imitation Game, in my humble opinion. [...]
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