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<\/a>Leonardo DiCaprio in Killers of the Flower Moon.<\/p><\/div>\n
So I figured it’s time to share my rant on the topic.<\/p>\n
Idiots both in and out of the biz like to dub some of the nominations \u201csnubs and surprises\u201d for the alliteration. But\u2014and I cannot stress this enough\u2014they are not snubs<\/em>!!! Some may be surprises<\/em>, (like that Leonardo DiCaprio’s brilliant performance in Killers of the<\/em> Flower Moon<\/em> did not get nominated; in my<\/em> opinion, he should always be nominated, even when he doesn\u2019t make a movie!,) but no one is snubbing<\/em> anybody here. To \u201csnub\u201d is to \u201crebuff\u201d or \u201cspurn\u201d or even when it is used to denote being ignored, it means to do so \u201cdisdainfully.\u201d<\/p>\n In the case of awards nominations, all that\u2019s happening is that the voting bodies feel that a handful or so of other performances (or directors or creative works) are better than others! That\u2019s it. No one is snubbing anyone. Example: the Oscars choose five Best Actor nominees by a vote of their Academy members. The top five vote-getters are in. Period. Someone else may come in a close sixth, even by one vote, but five is all\u00a0they take, so that\u2019s it for that category of nominees.<\/p>\n Plus, each awards body has a different system of voting, both for the nominations and the winners themselves. Sometimes it\u2019s flat-out one vote a person, and the entity with the most votes wins. Period. At other times, each member has to list their Top Five, say, and there’s a point system. Someone who has all second place votes may win out over someone who had more first place votes, but also some fifth place ones! (If you’re really interested in exactly how each awards-bestowing group works, look it up.)<\/p>\n If the Academy Awards voters were truly snubbing someone, they would have to get together and decide that, no matter what, they were going to ignore what that artist had done. And, as far as I know, they’ve never done that. To have \u201csnubbed\u201d Margot Robbie, for example, (as all these morons keep saying they did,) that’s what they would have had to do, which, of course they did not.<\/p>\n Yes, some of the omissions for all<\/em> the major awards have been questionable. I can’t understand how the Oscars voters found five performances that are better than Leo’s. Or how the Golden Globes voted Lily Gladstone’s one-note performance better than Annette Benning’s brilliant portrayal of Diana Nyad. A lot of choices are head-scratching for me.<\/p>\n But again, no one was snubbed<\/em>! Please keep in mind that in the concept of the first five or six or seven works being nominated, (each awards body has a different number of nominees that is set ahead of time,) the others, no matter how good they are, just don’t get in. Don’t be a fool yourself just because some writers, pundits, creatives, and members of the public are.<\/p>\n