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The Least Deserving Best Picture Nominees

Posted by Oscar Nazi on Friday, February 10, 2012, In : oscars

With the recent Best Picture nomination for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, a movie which had been critically savaged up until the nominations were announced, it seems like a good time to reflect on some of Oscars worst nominations in its most prestigious category. Now, let me qualify my list first by saying that - although I have seen all the Best Picture winners - I have not seen every Best Picture nominee, so the list is a little front-loaded. But seriously, who among us h...

How does your ballot stack up?

Posted by Oscar Nazi on Friday, February 26, 2010, In : oscars

Interesting grouping of Oscar "gurus" lastest guesses as to the current state of Oscar odds.

Why was I not invited?

Why I don't Want to see "The Blind Side"

Posted by Oscar Nazi on Monday, February 22, 2010,

Now - in writing this - I fully & freely admit that I don't know much more about The Blind Side than I've picked up from the trailer, but The Blind Side just seems so disgustingly over-simplified and sappy—and let's not forget - racist. What's that you say? How can this movie about uplifting an impoverished black man possibly be racist? Well,it plays the same old tired "magical African