My complaint is very specific. According to interviews about the script he wrote all the scene and action description in first-person POV, which is the most fucking aggravating thing I have ever heard about a screenplay.

it was by far nolan’s clearest movie.

The real snub here

Why have we all lost our avatars?

2023 is the best movie year I’ve personally experienced in my nearly 40 years, so I have a lot more sympathy than usual for the Oscar voters who only have so many spots to fill. In particular, I have to seriously ask anyone who says Margot Robbie was snubbed: Who exactly would you bump out of the list so she could get…

This doesn’t make much sense. The point of the movie is that Ken was being overlooked.

I hate that two of the most immaculately crafted films of the year - Asteroid City and The Killer - were completely shut out. They should have been locks for cinematography at the very very least, and editing and sound for the latter.

Exactly, and same for Leo. There can be only five nominees per category, and neither of them did better in their respective roles than the five actors whose performances got the nods. Both DiCaprio and Robbie are People’s Choice type actors whose “snubs” will always spur dumb lists like this one, but it’ll be the…

Right? How did anyone know what the screenplay contained, given that we couldn’t hear the dialogue?

Here’s a (technical and vocabulary) FYI… ‘Special Effects’ (SPFX) are FX which happen ‘live on set’, in front of the camera and ‘Visual Effects’ (VFX) are the FX which are created digitally on computer after the scene is filmed.

Get Bradley Cooper and his fake schnoz out of there and nominate Nicolas Cage for Dream Scenario, you cowards.

Here is the thing. Are they really “snubs” that would mean that someone got in that should nto have over them. I dont think that is the case for most of your list. This year was one of the strongest years in the history of film.

My Snub list:

Not to get all whataboutist on you but the fact that Nolan got a fucking screenplay nod is also DUMB.

I’m not saying one way or the other re: Gerwig as I’ve never quite understood what standards the awards use to determine these noms. But I will say that the qualities of the movie you’re discussing seem much more in line with the screenwriting as opposed to the directing. I totally agree with your assessment but it…

Margot Robbie didn’t get snubbed, I don’t think. She was perfectly good and did exactly what the role required, but it was hardly groundbreaking stuff. It’s exactly what you would expect from an A-list actor in a studio film.

The Gerwig snub is the worst of the lot. She did something that showed remarkable creativity and craft based upon a doll that already had a bunch of silly little-kid cartoons associated with it. The only anyone didn’t think it would be a disastrous idea from the very beginning was that her name was attached to it. 

Greta’s snub will be more and more shameful as time goes by.

Almost like the academy doesn’t like women directors

We’ve known for a while now that Oppenheimer would be excluded from the visual effects category, but I’m once again here to say that that is dumb. It’s best visual effects, not best special effects. If they achieve most of the effects practically, it should still count.