The nominees for this the 2016 Oscars were announced this morning and the very next thing most people want to know is “who got screwed?” As usual with the Academy Award nominations, the answer is “a lot of people and movies.” Find out which celebrities will have to fall back on the empty validation of fame, fortune, respect, success and constant attention to make up for the Oscar-shaped hole in their hearts. Here are the most egregious (okay, and a few funny, whiny half-snubs) 2016 Oscar snubs.
2016 Oscar Nominee Snub Zone
No ‘Carol’ Nomination for Best Picture
This one’s particularly surprising, since Carol But More Boring: The Movie, more commonly known as Brooklyn, did get nominated for Best Picture. It seems universal and rapturous critical praise isn’t enough to get you placed with Mid-Tier Spielberg and Look Here: Leonardo DiCaprio Got Really Cold Making This.
Snubbed: Ridley Scott for ‘The Martian’
The Martian is Ridley Scott’s first great movie in 24 years (Thelma & Louise), so it’s a bit surprising he wasn’t included among the Best Director nominees (but neither was Quentin Tarantino, Todd Haynes, or Ryan Coogler). This is the best evidence yet that the Academy has finally heard my pitch for an “Anti-Oscar that destroys normal Oscars” that could be given out exclusively to anyone who directed Prometheus.
Snubbed: People Who Aren’t White
No nominations for Michael B. Jordan in Creed, Idris Elba or Abraham Attah in Beasts of No Nation, Oscar Isaac in Ex Machina, or Kitana Kiki Rodriguez in Tangerine.
Would it surprise you to learn that members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences—your Oscar 2016 voters —are 92 percent white?
Did Star Wars: The Force Awakens get snubbed by the 2016 Oscars?
Despite my hilarious headline Snoke pun, no, not really. Unless you’re incensed by the Academy Awards’ decision to validate Disney’s slow erasure of the “Episode 7” moniker.
With four nominations in technical categories, plus a nomination for John William’s score, Star Wars: Episode 7 The Force Awakens got exactly everything it deserved.
So WTF is this bizarre argument that Star Wars: Episode 7 The Force Awakens’ massive box office should have qualified it for the Best Picture category?
In the Land of the Tweet, Everyone Is Snubbed
That about covers the major 2016 Oscar snub gripes, but there’s a whole world of pissed off people in need of Academy validation for their favorite 2016 movies.
You can see all of the 2016 Academy Award Oscar nominations right here and create your own snubs. But snubs are just the first step in an entire season of Oscars griping. It all culminates on Feb. 28, when Chris Rock hosts the Academy Awards and the world holds its breathe, waiting patiently for new Oscar winners to vehemently reject.