My only reaction to them snubbing Oprah for Best Supporting and the main actor from Selma? SO NASTY...& SO RUDE.....

Oprah was great but she was only in the movie for about 3 minutes, and didn't do enough to warrant a nomination. Now, she was definitely snubbed last year for the Butler.

Actors who were snubbed

David Oyelowo was the only true snub.

Actors who shouldn't have been nominated

Steve Carell, Bradley Cooper, Meryl Streep

Actors I'm glad weren't nominated

Jennifer Aniston - I told you she didn't have a chance in hell, Vix.

Edited January 15, 201510 yr by Bright Eyes

Hey, she got a lot further than you assumed, though! Lol.

You really didn't think Steve Carrell was great?

Who would you have put in supporting over Meryl? I probably would go with Rene Russo.

For non-actors, I'm just ecstatic that the academy didn't throw in the awful Clint Eastwood. It's bad enough American Sniper and Cooper are wasting space for actual deserving nominees. More proof that having more than 5 nominees in a category, especially best picture, is completely ridiculous.

I have no idea why Bradley Cooper ever gets nominations. It speaks to the true desperate lack of leading men in today's Hollywood (that and the tedious fetishization of George Clooney and his ego).

Hey, she got a lot further than you assumed, though! Lol.

You really didn't think Steve Carrell was great?

Who would you have put in supporting over Meryl? I probably would go with Rene Russo.

Steve Carell was good for Steve Carell. Not an Oscar nomination.

Anyone remotely wading in the waters of supporting actress this year would have been better than Streep, who hasn't deserved the majority of her nominations and that third win was a complete embarrassment. Still, for me, as long as the right person wins, I try not to get too displeased with wrong nominations. Like this year, it definitely sucks that Oyelowo didn't get nominated, but him winning would not be the right choice at all. It's totally Redmayne vs. Keaton, with Benedict Cumberpath (hopefully) having lost momentum.

As for actual actresses: Rene Russo, Naomi Watts, Jessica Chastain, Carmen Ejogo, Tilda Swinton, Carrie Coon. There were so many better options, but at least she didn't take Laura Dern's spot.

Edited January 15, 201510 yr by Bright Eyes

Please tell me you mean Naomi Watts for "Birdman".

Please tell me you mean Naomi Watts for "Birdman".

Both, really. But not because I think she needed to be nominated, just that Meryl Streep shouldn't have. Personally, I'd even take out Emma Stone, too.

I would agree with the Jennifer Anniston snub were it not for the fact that Steve Carrell got nominated for more or less a make up job of ugly-fying himself. Isn't that what people are accusing Anniston of?

As for Oprah's short appearance in the film. Alan Arkin won for Little Miss Sunshine and he couldn't have been in the movie more than 10 minutes.

And I do really think the Selma backlash was an engineered effort to give a black eye to a film that was gaining momentum. Personally, I think the idea that LBJ was the impetus for the Selma march is laughable but in a world where the likes of Woody Allen and Roman Polanski can get nominated for an Academy Award, I can't imagine what duVernay could've possibly said that tarnished her prospects for a best director nomination.

David Oyelowo should have gotten a nomination.

I do think that the race is between Michael Keaton and Eddie Redmayne. I'm kind of in favor of Keaton. Redmayne has picked and succeeded in doing a lot of great work so far and I don't see that ending anytime soon. Although he does risk being like other British prospects like Jude Law and James McAvoy and being too many places at once and getting movie critics fatigued with him. We'll see.

Julianne Moore better win this year is all I can say.

Alan Arkin only one because Eddie Murphy pissed off the academy.

Alan Arkin only one because Eddie Murphy pissed off the academy.

I am not disagreeing with you about Oprah, but Dame Judi Dench was only in Shakespeare in Love for six minutes and beating her slightly is Beatrice Straight who won Supporting for Network after only being in the film for five minutes, so it can happen legitimately.

Edited January 16, 201510 yr by Bright Eyes

You're right. But I just didn't really see Oprah's performance as worthy, IMO. Very good. Great even. But oscar worthy? I don't know.

Critics Choice Movie Award Winners

Best Picture – “Boyhood”
Best Actor – Michael Keaton, “Birdman”
Best Actress – Julianne Moore, “Still Alice”
Best Supporting Actor – J.K. Simmons, “Whiplash”
Best Supporting Actress – Patricia Arquette, “Boyhood”

For a full list of winners - http://www.criticschoice.com/movie-awards/

With its win at the Globes and CCA, Boyhood is in the lead now. Let's see what the guilds do to make the race closer.

I have to just laugh at how hard Jennifer Aniston campaigned for an Oscar nomination and how desperate she was for one. No one campaigned harder or spent as much money for herself as this bitch did, and still, the Academy rightfully shut her ass down.

No one takes her seriously as an actress, and she's not a very likeable person, and her "snub" was perfectly justified.

12:00 in: Tom O'Neil talks about how Aniston scheduled a press junket to discuss her potential Oscar nomination, even though it's only typical for movies to do such things and not actors, and how she had to cancel the junket due to not getting a nomination. This woman REALLY though she was going to be nominated.

Edited January 17, 201510 yr by BetterForgotten