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Purple Monkey
May 5, 2014

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dont even fink about it posted:

I will just say, with the caveat that I have hardly seen everything nominated, that I am rather tired of Hollywood showering the most awards on movies about Hollywood and acting. At a certain point it's like, get over yourselves.

Given the Oscars is just a huge Hollywood circle jerk it's hardly surprising these kind of films always do well

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Purple Monkey
May 5, 2014

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Is it just a British thing where the media gets some bizarre national pride whenever a national receives an acting nomination or does it happen elsewhere as well?

Purple Monkey
May 5, 2014

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It does kind of feel like it's gotten to the stage where Meryl Streep could just walk onto screen, fart and then walk straight off again and never appear for the rest of the film and still get at least a best supporting actress nom

Purple Monkey
May 5, 2014

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Pirate Jet posted:

Spotlight isn't a bad movie but I feel like there's something really strange about it winning Best Picture and nothing else.

It's like, if we're not awarding movies based off of the things that make them movies, what are we awarding them for? A certain je ne sais quo?

Even if they didn't want to give it to an action movie last year, Room was still more deserving.

Spotlight probably won because best picture is decided by a ranked/instant runoff vote which is why middling but inoffensive films often win. This video does a better job of explaining it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfIxihGOaQ8

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