Cellar Door: Academy gives bullshit excuse for Fassy snub

thethirdshift:

thelovehater:

normanreedus: scifantasy: betterthanurfaves:

” ‘He’s a guy who’s unfamiliar to a lot of people and did a movie that’s really intimate,’ one high-ranking academy voter told the Ministry. ‘That was a super-brave performance but … perhaps it inspired people to fantasize, and not actually vote.’ “

says an Academy voter to the Los Angeles Times
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This is such bullshit. The AMPAS are full of old men that don’t like to reward young “heart throbs” and give all of the best actor Oscars to Oldies. They’re afraid of penis, especially big penis that has made a name for itself. Halle Berry gets fucked over sideways/doggie style/missionary and back in Monster’s Ball to old ass Billy Bob Thorton and she wins the Oscar because the AMPAS members got to live out they’re old man fantasies. That’s also why they always reward younger actresses(Natalie Portman, Mira Sorvino, etc.) over older ones, because they have hard-ons for ingenues. But Michael is a young “heartthrob” male actor so he didn’t stand a chance. And Michelle will probably beat Meryl and Viola, because she’s younger~ and cuter~.

Not only that, but what about almost-unknown-before-a-few-months-ago Rooney Mara and her Dragon Tattoo nomination?  To reduce Michael’s performance to “fantasy fodder” is an INSULT of the highest order.   It’s an old boy’s club full of misogynists.

Hello. I’ve been saying this for like ever. Why do you think Leo has never won an Oscar? They always give them out to the older men and the younger women. It’s the epitome of Dirty Old Man Syndrome.

Not to disagree with the Fassbender point, but DiCaprio was nominated for both The Aviator and Blood Diamond, and neither were as Oscar-worthy as his role in The Departed, which got all the love for Scorsese (deserved) but not its actors at award time.

I don’t know how you can watch Shame and “fantasize,” but dick gets you an NC-17, while tits and sex scenes get you an R, and let’s not pretend that didn’t factor in. 

Not for nothing, but IRON LADY and THE HELP are pretty poor movies and frankly, Meryl doesn’t put in her best performance in IRON LADY. In my eyes, if she does win that’s the lazy old Academy vote. (For the record Streep was about 29 when she was first nominated for THE DEER HUNTER.)

Fellow nominee Glenn Close was 35 when she first nominated for THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP. Michelle Williams is going on 32, and an incredibly talented actress to boot. As much as pains me to say so because I hate the subject matter, she’s luminous in MY WEEK WITH MARILYN.

Basically, go stick your ingenue argument in a sack.