I disagree, I thought Blunt was excellent right next to Del Toro. Of course, she's the only one that had anything to do outside of acting like a badass.

Agreed.

Has an action movie ever gotten this much love from the Oscars? Usually thats a genre where no matter how good, they are basically ignored come Oscar time.

I wouldn't say that. She played the patsy just right, which is what was intended.

Inception?

I fail to see how Bridge of Spies is an original screenplay.

It's like this : When people get together and write a screenplay and it's not based on an existing book, play or screenplay, it's an original screenplay even if it's based on factual events even if it's enhanced by research of existing sources.

Technically, Everest (criminally completely ignored by the Academy) had an original screenplay even though it felt like a direct adaptation of Into Thin Air.

now that soundmix and design was ten times more effective and stunning than that Star Wars movie.

I'm surprised Johnny Depp and Joel Edgerton weren't nominated for Black Mass.

Speaking of Edgerton, I thought "The Gift" was a film worthy of a few nominations.

Glad TH8 got shut out in most categories. It really wasn't that good a film.

Creed, Michael B. Jordan, Ryan Coogler...

Beasts of No Nation is about all I can think of, I liked Creed, but I didn't hold it in as high regard as some people seem to.

And that is his punishment for "Mortdecai."

And all those awful pirate films.

Don't forget The Lone Ranger & Transcendence, haven't seen them but from what I've heard...

No, I'd much rather forget them.

I guess I'm also not a huge Leo fan. I like him okay, but whenever he is on screen, I am always very conscious of the fact that he's "acting." Someone like Del Toro (who should have been nominated) always seems to just disappear into his roles.

I don't get the push for Leo to get an Oscar, he's usually good but rarely exceptional in his roles. As others have pointed out, Tom Hardy was actually superior in The Revenant.

Slow West, Bone Tomahawk, and Mississippi Grind were all worthy films as well.

Ah well. It's just a famous person circle jerk anyway.

Well, Tom Hardy is a far superior actor, so makes sense.

Oh, and I'm sure inri222 has heard this before, but I wish someone would nominate Ben Mendelsohn for something. Christ, he is in multiple great films every year, and could have easily been nominated for "Mississippi Grind" this year.

Doomed to forever be known as "that one guy." Fucking shame.

Starred Up, Lost River, Killing Them Softly, Slow West, The Place Beyond the Pines. That guy can do no wrong. Not a young pretty boy so he'll mostly be used as a character actor by Hollywood.

Star Wars, Avatar, LOTR: ROTK, Gravity, Gladiator, & Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Some of these may not be considered "pure" action movies, but they all fit the definition of what an action movie is - a genre of film where heroes are thrust into a series of challenges, typically physical, which they must overcome and defeat the villain. You could even throw in the second half of Titanic in there based on that.

Why? Because it was real life?

The King's Speech, Milk, Gandhi, Chariots of Fire and Patton all WON this award.