SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 2024
...more than they love life itself: Our mainstream journalists love the "snub" more than they love life itself.
This thought came to mind as we scanned this trio of offerings in today's New York Times:
By Brooks Barnes
Every year since the Academy Awards were invented, somebody has been overlooked, ignored, passed over, disregarded or brushed off. You know what they say about beauty and beholders.
But perceived Oscar omissions—snubs, as we have come to call them—have grown into a frenzied annual conversation, with people left off the nomination list, or nominated but denied a statuette, sometimes receiving as much attention, or more, as those who win. “Barbie” was nominated for eight Academy Awards, but Greta Gerwig’s exclusion from the best director lineup has been the headline (never mind that she is in the running for adapted screenplay). The academy and ABC, which will broadcast the Oscars on March 10, have been promoting the show with a commercial that pointedly references the lapse.
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A version of this article appears in print on March 10, 2024, Section AR, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: A Club Too Good To Be Ignored.
Spurned, Slighted, Rejected: 25 Oscar Snubs We’ll Never Get Over
Greta Gerwig, you’re not alone. These artists and films memorably—outrageously in our view—got the brush-off from the academy. We’re still in disbelief.
By The New York Times
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A version of this article appears in print on March 10, 2024, Section AR, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: A Club Too Good To Be Ignored.
13 Things We’re Still Mad About: Oscars Edition
We asked staffers in Culture and Books about the snubs from years past that still bother them, and they had some things to say.By The New York Times
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A version of this article appears in print on March 10, 2024, Section AR, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: Oscar Decisions That Still Bother Us.
We offer the first two paragraphs of the Brooks Barnes piece. For the other two compilations, we simply present the double headlines which sit atop the lists of alleged snubs from the past. We also present the online accounts of where these three items appear in today's print editions.
At any rate, our journalists seem to like nothing more than working up lists of "snubs."
It isn't enough to disagree with a selection which was made in the past. Here, as in so many other areas, we've agreed to settle on the use of a term designed to inflame.
Much of our discourse is like this today, thereby constituting what we'd call "imitations of life." Our discourse routinely heads off in search of perceptions of insult which thereby permit expressions of rage.
This seems to be the mindset we've chosen as a nation.
Full disclosure:
Among our own three favorite films of all time, Casablanca won for Best Picture in 1943. In 1947, then again in 1980, Notorious and My Brilliant Career didn't even receive nominations!
Additional full disclosure:
Unlike the journalists who contributed to that one piece today, we've somehow "gotten over it." With emotional balance as our watchword and our way of life, we aren't "still in disbelief!"
We aren't even "still bothered" by these so-called "snubs." We've even found our way past that!
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ReplyDeleteThe Nobel committee snubbed him.
DeleteEdward G. Robinson was never nominated for an Oscar. Everything about the Oscars is silly but, taken as fun, harmless.
ReplyDeleteRobinson won Best Actor at Cannes in 1949 for his work in House of Strangers.
ReplyDeleteThe Katie Britt performance came in too late to make the 2024 nomination deadline. Bob seems upset that critics feel other actors than those nominated should be acknowledged for their work. If an article or two of that kind provides him an outlet for his grievances, in this case regarding how easily other people are triggered, he gets the prize for " Best Performance in the Category of Irony".
ReplyDeleteI find it's helpful to remember that the Academy Awards are a movie industry event. It's about insiders congratulating each other for the work they do. By it's very nature, the voting is subject to cronyism, favoritism, and bias.
ReplyDeleteOne mustn't take it as a personal judgment if one's preferred favorite isn't recognized.
The Outfit should have won Best Picture in 2022.
ReplyDeleteNot even nominated.
DeleteLike totally snubbed.
DeleteDamn philistines.
DeleteThe Philistines were the Palestinians of yesteryear.
DeleteYesteryear?
DeleteThanks for the recommendation.
DeleteYesteryear is a synonym of yore. They both mean time past.
Delete“Unlike the journalists who contributed to that one piece today, we've somehow "gotten over it." “
ReplyDeleteYou’re a big man, Bob. Big.
Meanwhile, lots of film buffs, many of them average folks, have lively discussions about who should or shouldn’t have won, without it being a source of “rage.”
But nice try at being melodramatic.
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ReplyDeleteAnonymouse 7:19pm, oh, nice try at it not being “a source of rage”
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