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WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK

What happened with the Oscar nominations? I mean seriously, what happened?

Bigelow and Affleck both get snubbed in Direction.
I mean the Director lineup just in general. Fuck David O'Russell.
Moonrise Kingdom doesn't get a Picture nomination.
No Looper in Screenplay.
No John Hawkes in Actor.
Where the actual fuck did Jacki Weaver come from? I didn't really think Ann Dowd would get in, but no Ann Dowd and Jacki Weaver instead?
This isn't a surprise, because everyone knew Alan Arkin would get in, but he would have been the third most interesting supporting performance in Argo, under Bryan Cranston and John Goodman.
I literally cannot with Editing.
No Hobbit for Costume? (But Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman make it in.) Or for Sound Editing? Or Sound Mixing? (Lincoln for Mixing? Really? Really.) No nomination for "Song of the Lonely Mountain?"
And where are The Avengers' Sound nominations? Oh right, there are none.
I literally cannot with Documentary Feature, but I knew that when the first short-list was announced.
Hitchcock for Makeup over Lincoln? Anthony Hopkins literally looked like he was melting.
I fundamentally do not understand Life of Pi getting nominated for Production Design.

Bright spots:

Christoph Waltz.

I have seriously like been seething this whole morning. These are the worst. THE WORST.

In conclusion, GPOY:

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So glad I stopped caring about the Oscars when I stopped being able to stay awake to watch them over here. Like, I can stay up for a lot of other things, but the Oscars immediately put me to sleep now. And since award shows on principle ignore my favourite genre, ehhhhh.

♥ Have a cheer-up hug!

Yeah, I've been Oscarwatching for like fifteen years now, and while every year there are some disappointments, this is the first year where I was just like THIS IS BALLS, THIS IS LIKE GRAMMY-LEVEL NONSENSE. I'll still watch, but the most deserving people don't even have a shot now, and that's just weird. But yeah, it's like all the years I watched the Emmys when Battlestar Galactica wasn't even nominated. Like, whatever, most of these are technically invalid, Mary McDonnell for everything, etc.

♥ Yay for hugs! (Also, I'm going to try and comment on your post again, but it kept timing out on me earlier. Stupid LJ.)

Yup, right there with you. It's a pain in the ass to watch over here anyway because it starts at like, one in the morning and goes on to 6am (and always on a Sunday/Monday night, hahahahahah the number of times I went to school on zero minutes of sleep is really not funny I don't know why I'm laughing). And when it's mostly just disappointments, the effort is just not worth it. But then, I also don't really keep up with new releases anymore. I've found my little spot where 90% of TV shows I watch are older than I am, and the only films I watch are those that people I already love are in or that bf throws at me, lol. I used to be great at keeping up with new stuff. No idea what changed, really.

Like, whatever, most of these are technically invalid, Mary McDonnell for everything, etc.
AMEN.

(Urgh, shakes fist at LJ. It's been doing that to me so often lately. I think I've figured out how to give you access to my dreamwidth account, though, so if you want, I can do that and then you should be able to see my entries there with your LJ account? I don't know how exactly it works, it's that whole Open ID thing, but I know other people have done it.)

Man, one of the few things I miss about LA was watching the Oscars live. They started at 5pm, were over by 9pm, it was beautiful. Though this year I'm working the evening shift on Mondays so I won't go in till 12:30, so that will work out nicely.

Yeah, I've actually seen soooooo few of what's nominated. Like, I've seen Argo. Annnnnnd that's it. But that doesn't keep me from having very strong opinions about everything.

(I plan to see Les Mis this week or next because I have a pass, and Django for sure, and maybe Lincoln as well. Too much happens in December, sigh, and also I saw The Hobbit three times.)

That sounds nice! It's always gonna be weird to me that you guys are one country but have like, a million different time zones. /European

Psh, you can have Very Strong Opinions about everything even without having seen it. I don't think I've seen any of the Oscar things. I'm not intersted in Django because I don't like Tarantino (ducks flying tomatoes), and Les Mis-type things are not my cup of tea in general, and the rest I haven't even heard of, hah. ... /European ?

BB!DELENN! SO ADORABLEEEEE!

The /European tags are killing me.

My first semester in school - where I was two hours behind - my mom could not remember the time zone difference. So she would call me when she'd been up for an hour or two and thought it was plenty late enough - but it was still like 5:30 or 6:00 am for me. Finally she figured it out, thank goodness, but I could have hopped on a plane and throttled her a couple times.

I try.

Hahahahaha, oh my god. That's hilarious. My mother does that to me, too, except we're in the same timezone... But I'm glad yours figured it out eventually.

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