There are certainly people with more deserving OSCAR RANTS than your humble foreignfilmguy (#OscarSoWhite:TheSequel), but I have to admit I didn't see "Straight Outta Compton" or "Creed", so I cannot comment on those snubs. What I CAN and WILL comment on are the following outrageous SNUBS:
No Best Picture or Best Director nominations for perhaps (I don't want to give away my Top Ten List too early) the Best Movie of the Year: "CAROL"! WTF#1? It is clearly the class of the Oscar season (the backing of those no-good Weinsteins notwithstanding) Instead, we have to suffer the far inferior BRIDGE OF SPIES and THE MARTIAN as Best Picture (not to give away my Not Top Ten List).
"SICARIO" - snubbed for everything but Best Cinematography, Score, and Sound editing (it should win for all three).
Screenplays: Aaron Sorkin not getting nominated for "Steve Jobs" is a snub, especially since the lame script for "The Martian" did get one. I have yet to see "The Hateful Eight," but I am sure there is more wit and artistry in the first five minutes of it than in the entire patchwork, obviously written by several hands mess that is "Bridge of Spies."
Best Costume Design: NO recognition for the outstanding costumes in "BROOKLYN"?? WTF#2!
I am sure all five best documentary features are deserving, but to leave out MY two fave docs of the year -- "Best of Enemies" and "Listen to Me, Marlon" -- seems wrong.
Best Song: I'm sorry, Sam Smith fans, but as soon as I heard the opening song for the new James Bond film "Spectre" I was ready to declare it the WORST Bond Film song EVER! (And that is saying something!)
At this point in my annual RANT, you expect to hear me go off on my favorite Oscar whipping boy: JOHN WILLIAMS. Well, this year, I am not gonna do it! It's STAR WARS, after all. That is the man's bread-and-butter! Props to JW! In his stead, I am awarding the honorary John Wiliams Rant to another composer who is clearly a hack unworthy of Oscar recognition, and that person is . . .
THOMAS NEWMAN, "Bridge of Spies"! You, sir, suck as a composer! What an ingratiating, hackneyed, obvious and unrelenting score that was! No matter what the rest of the movie was like, I knew the score would ruin the entire movie for me. Have I mentioned that it's not that great a movie, anyway?
