Leonardo DiCaprio




You only have to take a cursory glance at the Internet to know that the generation who grew up watching Leonardo DiCaprio movies are utterly baffled that one of our greatest actors has yet to win an Oscar.

His performance in Django is incendiary - he literally shed blood for it.

He should have been nominated for that moment alone, the moment where he smashes his hand on the table, gets a shard of glass embedded in his palm, glances at it, and incorporates the subsequent wound into his performance.

Poor Leo, we hope that when he does eventually win his Oscar, it's ten times the size of a normal statue, to make up for all the times he's missed out



SNUB: Ben Affleck
Perhaps one of the biggest surprises this morning is Ben Affleck getting snubbed for best director for "Argo."

A masterfully made thriller about the 1980 Iranian hostage crisis, "Argo" was easily one of the most critically praised movies of the year. It also proved that the Affleck of 2012 was a far cry from the tabloid punch line that he was a few years ago -- remember "Gigli"? An Academy Award nomination would have cemented ...

SNUB: Kathryn Bigelow



One of the other big surprises of the morning was Kathryn Bigelow getting snubbed for best director. Bigelow won a best director Oscar a couple of years ago for “The Hurt Locker” and delivered a film this year – “Zero Dark Thirty” – that is just shy of being a flat out masterpiece. Just watch the raid on Osama’s compound sequence and tell me that Bigelow isn’t one of the best filmmakers

SNUB: Marion Cotillard"



Rust and Bone" was passed over as France’s official selection for best foreign language movie in favor of the insipid "The Intouchables." Yet there was still Oscar talk for this movie thanks to Marion Cotillard’s heart-breaking turn as an Orca trainer who suddenly finds herself legless and purposeless. But it seems that Emmanuelle Riva’s nomination took the French actress slot for the category....



SNUB: "Skyfall"
Heading into this morning, "Skyfall" looked like it might be a serious Oscar contender. After all, the movie garnered some surprise attention from the Producer and Screen Actors Guilds and it won a bunch of nominations from Britain’s BAFTAs. Sadly, it was not to be. The fact that "James Bond" and "Oscars" were getting mentioned in the same sentence at all is something of a surprise. Less than a decade ago, the franchise seemed to ... more





SNUB: "The Dark Knight Rises"
The culmination of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy received rave reviews, earned over a billion at the box office, and commanded ferocious loyalty from legions of devoted fans, yet it failed to nab a best picture nomination this morning. What's up with that? Irony alert: One of the reasons why the Academy expanded its best picture nominee list from five to up to 10 was that Nolan's "The Dark Knight" didn't get the... more





SNUB: "The Master"
When "The Master," P.T. Anderson's ambitious, elusive character study, won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and then was greeted with rhapsodic reviews by critics at Toronto, it seemed like a lock for Oscar gold. Yet when the movie was released outside the hothouse of film festdom, the Oscar chances for "The Master" quickly evaporated. Though the movie nabbed a trio of acting nominations – including a jaw-dropping turn... more



SNUB: Mary Elizabeth Winstead Playing drunk on camera is more often than not an excuse to chew the scenery. Getting it right is about as difficult as riding a unicycle after a couple of rounds of tequila shots. So that's what makes Mary Elizabeth Winstead's performance in "Smashed" as a hung-over teacher turned recovering alcoholic so remarkable. She is at times funny and heartbreakingly vulnerable, and she is at every point completely honest.... more




SNUB: Samuel L. Jackson


Samuel L. Jackson had perhaps the thorniest role to play in Quentin Tarantino's controversial spaghetti Western-***-antebellum revenge yarn, "Django Unchained," as Stephen, the house slave who upholds his master's brutal plantation traditions. Jackson is loathsome, charismatic, crafty, and obsequious -- hard qualities to pack into a role. But the academy didn't give him any love this morning. Of course, Jackson has been ... more



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And this gif goes so well

Marion.

she deserved a NOD tho

This, if only people actually saw her movie

SNUB: Wide Awake

Wide Awake

Ben Affleck, Kathryn Bigelow, and Marion Cotillard were certainly the most blatant snubs.

Wide Awake was not snubbed.

The Dark Knight Rises

Lol at TDKR. No.

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Leonardo dicaprio was not snubbed. All he had was a Golden Globe nomination!!!!

The biggest snubs were Affleck, Bigelow (who I though were the frontrunners) and Marion Cotillard.She had a nod at the globes, SAG, BAFTA and BFCA. the only other actor in history to miss an Oscar nomination with all those precursors is Tilda Swinton. (last year)

The female MJ was snubbed

Wide Awake wasn't snubbed

I love "Wide Awake" but that was not going to be nominated.

Ben Affleck and Kathryn Bigelow were the biggest snubs, IMO. Joaquin Phoenix surprised me with his nod. I was sure the Academy was gonna give him the middle finger after he said he didn't want any awards.

Wide Awake was snubbed

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Leo and Jackson deserved a nomination over freaking Alan Arkin in Argo, come on.