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#1: Jan 9th 2014 at 2:48:52 AM

Seriously, this is wrong. One of the nicest, most hardworking actors in Hollywood, every film he does is awesome, and he still doesn't get that Oscar. Why?!

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#2: Jan 9th 2014 at 2:51:12 AM

I'm kinda "meh" on him, myself, but is there a particular reason you linked to Know Your Meme?

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#3: Jan 9th 2014 at 9:39:19 AM

It doesn't help that he's always, always miscast. I think Scorsese assumes his name will add Oscar buzz (or Titanic mojo) to the project. But note that this never results in a win for Leo himself. If his contemporary and fellow golden boy Brad Pitt has never won, what chance does he have?

edited 9th Jan '14 9:43:49 AM by johnnyfog

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#4: Jan 9th 2014 at 1:31:22 PM

The Oscars aren't exactly an indicator of quality anymore.

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#5: Jan 9th 2014 at 3:24:45 PM

I'd wager he hasn't gotten one because he doesn't have mafia connections nor does he give blowjobs, lol.

Above post made as a joke.

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#6: Jan 9th 2014 at 3:49:51 PM

I wouldn't rule out mob connections. [lol] He must know a guy who knows a guy.

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#7: Jan 9th 2014 at 6:29:05 PM

I love that picture of Leonardo crying made up of other Oscar winners.

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#8: Jan 9th 2014 at 8:01:03 PM

I do think Leo has come a long way from Titanic but Oscars are over rated.

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#9: Jan 9th 2014 at 10:15:36 PM

Hey man, if Jim Carrey can't win an Oscar for his amazing performance in The Truman Show, then nobody can say that the Oscars are fair.

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#10: Jan 10th 2014 at 9:34:27 AM

He's a vastly overrated actor, at least by the people who think he deserves an Oscar. His career is based primarily on his looks, although that's not to say he has no talent.

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#11: Jan 10th 2014 at 11:31:44 AM

I didn't know Jim Carrey's career was mostly based on his looks. I thought it was the fart noises.

edited 10th Jan '14 11:31:54 AM by Canid117

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#12: Jan 11th 2014 at 5:08:19 PM

The Oscars aren't exactly an indicator of quality anymore.

As much as an Award Snub annoys me, this is the truth. The Oscars are based off of Hollywood politics. Seriously, it took Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese how many years to finally get a Director award?

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#13: Jan 11th 2014 at 5:25:59 PM

There are two things that ruin the credibility of the Oscars. One is the concept that someone can be "owed" and Oscar. Either your movie was the best example of the Award category or it wasn't. Giving awards to people who deserve recognition but never won an Oscar is what lifetime achievement awards are for. The second is that the studio's can campaign for an Oscar. The voting should be done by a rotating population within the Academy who are kept secret from the studios.

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WarriorEowyn from Victoria Since: Oct, 2010
#14: Jan 11th 2014 at 5:28:55 PM

Either your movie was the best example of the Award category or it wasn't. Giving awards to people who deserve recognition but never won an Oscar is what lifetime achievement awards are for.

I agree. A person shouldn't get an Oscar for lifetime performance. They should get it if their performance in a specific movie is the best one that year. For, example, this year Chiwetel Ejiofor deserves the Oscar for Best Actor.

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#15: Jan 11th 2014 at 7:22:07 PM

The voting should be done by a rotating population within the Academy who are kept secret from the studios.

Agreed

And I wish the Academy would make up their mind regarding Stop Motion. They have a nasty Double Standard about it; Andy Serkis doesn't get nominated for The Two Towers or Return of the King because "it's not really him" yet The Adventures of Tin Tin doesn't get a animation nod because that doesn't count either. <_<

edited 11th Jan '14 7:25:47 PM by Lionheart0

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#16: Jan 11th 2014 at 8:03:31 PM

I think you mean Motion Capture. Stop-Motion is animation like this.

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#17: Jan 11th 2014 at 8:06:32 PM

I think a friend of mine said it best today during improv: "I want a small statue of a naked man painted gold."

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#18: Jan 12th 2014 at 9:53:24 AM

I think Di Caprio will get an Oscar. But he'll get it for some movie in which he had a mediocre performance in. Like Whoopi Goldberg in Ghost. She should've gotten the Oscar for The Color Purple, but didn't. The Academy felt like she "deserved" an Oscar so she got it in a movie that was pretty forgettable.

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#19: Jan 12th 2014 at 12:36:15 PM

The Academy was a lot more rigid back then — screenings of predominately black films were cut short before the opening credits were even up (word is this is what happened with Color Purple), and documentaries were just plain tossed out. (Hoop Dreams, et al) Ghost got Oscars because the lead was white. Even today, you can't tell a story about black people without a white POV character. It's that simple.

Ebert later accused the Academy of being jealous of Spielberg's hot streak. I have no idea if there's any substance to it or not.

Hollywood gets perverse about situations like that. It understands very well why a man might spend a year making a movie that a 13-year-old would disdain as trash. But if a man blessed with great success tries to do something really wonderful, there is a tendency to slap him down. It is just too much of an affront to all the compromises and little ethical deaths that happen every day all over town.

edited 12th Jan '14 12:41:39 PM by johnnyfog

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#20: Jan 12th 2014 at 3:01:47 PM

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That's interesting; I'm surprised it was so blatant that they didn't give a shit.

Any recommendations on where to read more about racism etc in the Academy. I've always assumed, without really looking into it, that they're a bunch of hacks, but it would be nice to read something more in depth.

[down] Yes and no. It would be nice to have a bigger picture.

edited 12th Jan '14 3:17:08 PM by Achaemenid

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#21: Jan 12th 2014 at 3:05:28 PM

If only to confirm your completely correct opinion.

edited 12th Jan '14 3:05:38 PM by Mort08

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#22: Jan 12th 2014 at 3:47:49 PM

It's a fundamental problem that has existed since the beginning of film. To make movies require money, to get money forces you to promote it as though it is a business venture. Art and business really never goes together, but you can't separate them either.

Hollywood is not about art but about business and politics. It's not necessarily your talent but your connections. The most qualified for a role or the best candidate for an award often doesn't get it because of a hundred different factors that have nothing to do with the art.

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#23: Jan 13th 2014 at 1:33:39 PM

[up] Very true.

Ebert later accused the Academy of being jealous of Spielberg's hot streak. I have no idea if there's any substance to it or not.

Spielberg and Lucas were young upstarts who completely redefined Hollywood, so it wouldn't surprised me if the "old guard" were spiteful towards his constant success.

Even today you'll get people who adamantly believe those two ruined "American Cinema."

edited 13th Jan '14 1:41:08 PM by Lionheart0

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#24: Jan 13th 2014 at 2:22:23 PM

Depends on what one values in a movie. If its acting and dialogue, George Lucas essentially gutted the public's appetite for it. He and Spielberg really are more about spectacle, which the Academy was never about. There's a reason why "Oscar Bait" and "Blockbuster" have, by and large, been diametrically opposed since Star Wars came out.

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#25: Jan 13th 2014 at 8:02:24 PM

There was a time when they were one and the same.

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