Watchmen should have been nominated (and won) for these categories:

Best Film
Best Supporting Actor (Jackie Earl Haley)*
Best Cinematography

*well to be fair, Waltz was very good too so this could have been a coin flip

Any other obvious snubbs this year?

I think Michael Stuhlbarg deserved a nomination for A Serious Man.

I loved Watchmen, but I only agree that Haley should have been nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Waltz should win.

Tilda Swinton for Julia.

Tilda Swinton (Actress) for Julia
Mélanie Laurent (Actress) for Inglourious Basterds
Sam Rockwell (Actor) for Moon
Matt Damon (Actor) for The Informant!
Where the Wild Things Are (Art Direction)
Drag Me to Hell (Sound Mixing)
The Coen Bros (Directing)

Acting:
Michael Stuhlbarg for A Serious Man,
Peter Capaldi for In the Loop,
Sam Rockwell for Moon,
and Mélanie Laurent for Inglourious Basterds.

Directing:
Joel and Ethan Coen for A Serious Man
and Michael Haneke for The White Ribbon.

Star Trek - Best Picture

Yeah. He should've gotten nominated but Waltz would win no matter what.

The Messenger

-Best Picture
-Best Director
-Supporting Actress for Samantha Morton

I am still hurting that Keenan and Kell were snubbed for Good Burger. Hell, the whole film was snubbed.

If Watchmen was snubbed for anything, it was the Golden Raspberries.

I would say that performance probably factored in to him getting a nod for Invictus.

I think similar things happened with Tommy Lee Jones when he was nominated for In the Valley of Elah and also appeared in No Country for Old Men. And DiCaprio's performance in The Departed may have helped him get in for Blood Diamond. Seems like voters take those into consideration if someone has a really good year.

Feel free to leave this thread hater, Watchmen is a masterpiece.

Watchmen isn't quite trash, but the idea of even considering the film for Best Picture is laughable, and considering the dozens of better films in 2009, a bit insulting.


The thread is asking for Oscar Snubs and isn't specifically a Watchmen thread. Please don't threadcrap.

Agreed on Picture and SA, but I'm not sure who I'd bump from Directing. Some would say Daniels, but I really liked Precious.

Masterpiece? You should have just made a "Watchmen got snubbed!" thread instead of an all inclusive Oscar thread. The movie it too ripe for ridicule.

^I haven't seen Messenger yet, but I didn't care for Daniels direction in Precious. He did a great job with his actors, not so much with everything else.

Ever since I've seen it, I've been torn between thinking Watchmen was either an ambitious but flawed masterpiece or pretentious horseshit. I've been leaning more and more towards the latter.

Best Supporting Actor: Jackie Earle Haley (Watchmen)
Best Actor: Matt Damon (The Informant!)
Best Picture: Black Dynamite
Best Picture: The Informant!
Best Director: Steven Soderbergh (The Informant!)
Best Original Score: Marvin Hamlisch (The Informant!)
Best Original Score: Adrian Younge (Black Dynamite)

I am of the belief that a picture is a thousand words.

Well this one is five in particular:



Best Actress: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist

A Single Man should have been nominated for Best Picture.

you took my answer

Really, The Blind Side was a better film? Really?

I didn't threadcrap, groucho did, and I started the thread so i can praise Watchmen as much as I please.

mark my words, no movie that ends with a song by my chemical romance will ever win best picture.

To be fair, Watchmen might have been Best Picture material, but it was brought down by the bad cinematography and the poor portrayal of Rorschach.

It's an open thread asking for opinions of which films were snubbed. If you wanted to be free of Watchmen criticism then you should've put your post in a Watchmen thread.

I don't think Watchmen was snubbed. I thought it was shit.

So there.