Sometimes, it’s an honor just to be nominated for an Academy Award — and sometimes being passed over is a snub!
These are the most egregious errors on the part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, in order of outrageousness and indefensibility, from brain-meltingly inexplicable to bemusedly obtuse — according to me, at least.
Best Picture: American Hustle • Captain Phillips • Dallas Buyers Club • Gravity • Her • Nebraska • Philomena • 12 Years a Slave • The Wolf of Wall Street
Snubbed: Inside Llewyn Davis. On the surface, this story of a struggling folk musician in 1961 New York is just a small and quirky film, but the Oscar-winning Coen Brothers (Fargo, No Country for Old Men) have crafted yet another idiosyncratic movie about a particularly peculiar fellow moving through a world he barely comprehends — Llewyn Davis is a purist who refuses to compromise even one iota to claim the fame he desperately desires but which dangles just beyond his reach.
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