Submit Your: Top Ten 2012 Oscar Snubs

By Adam Kuntavanish
February 8, 2013 Top Ten 9 Comments

Since we’re in the last throes of Oscar fever following the nominations announcement, it’s time to vent our frustrations! Last year around this time I listed my snubs of the 84th Academy Awards, and this year will be no different, including the caveats that I’ll only choose reasonable nominees that had a snowball’s chance in hell of making the cut and furthermore who or what would need to be cast aside to still keep the same number of nominations. Let loose in the comments on your own unmentioned favorites as well, whether or not they ever had a realistic shot.

By Adam Kuntavanish
Sr. Staff Film Critic & Top Ten Guru: Cinema transcends boundaries of time and space and thought and emotion; at its best it communicates the experience of being truly alive. I've been transfixed by the material ghosts of the movies since an early age, and I can't seem to shake them. Since reading and writing and talking about films are the next best things to watching them, criticism became a natural fit. Whether new or old, foreign or domestic, mainstream or cult, all movies are grist for my mill. Be forewarned, I'm an inveterate list-maker, so look out for rankings, topics, and opinions of all kinds. The AFI's got nothing on me.
  • http://twitter.com/Pete_Volk Pete Volk

    My snubs:

    I have a bit too many in Best Supporting Actor and I wouldn’t know who to toss out in most of these, but these are the ten I felt deserved recognition.

    Kathryn Bigelow – Best Director – ZERO DARK THIRTY

    Ben Affleck – Best Director – ARGO

    Denis Lavant – Best Actor – HOLY MOTORS

    HOLY MOTORS – Best Foreign Film

    Matthew McConnaughey – Best Supporting Actor – MAGIC MIKE

    Rian Johnson – Best Original Screenplay – LOOPER

    Javier Bardem – Best Supporting Actor – SKYFALL

    Dwight Henry – Best Supporting Actor – BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD

    Samuel L. Jackson – Best Supporting Actor – DJANGO UNCHAINED

    Jack Black – Best Actor – BERNIE

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-D-Misch/28134555 Chris D. Misch

    The Impossible – Best Picture

    Michael Shannon in Take Shelter…..oh wait that was last year. Still bitter about that one.

  • http://twitter.com/laura_grande13 Laura Grande

    HA!!

  • http://twitter.com/laura_grande13 Laura Grande

    It was a snubby year, wasn’t it?

    1) Kathryn Bigelow – Best Director

    2) John Hawkes – Best Actor

    3) Samuel L. Jackson – Best Supporting Actor

    4) Leonardo DiCaprio – Best Supporting Actor

    5) Dwight Henry – Best Actor

    6) Jean-Louis Trintignant – Best Actor

    7) Rachel Weisz – Best Actress

    8) Quentin Tarantino – Best Director

    9) The Master – Best Picture

    10) Paul Thomas Anderson – Best Director

  • Daniel Tucker

    Kathryn Bigelow – Director
    Leonardo DiCaprio – Supporting Actor
    Django – Original Song (any)
    Quentin Tarantino – Best Director
    Perks of Being a Wallflower – Best Screenplay
    Jack Black – Best Actor
    Looper – Best Screenplay
    Ben Affleck – Director
    Logan Lerman – Best Actor
    Ezra Miller – Best Supporting Actor

  • acharlie

    In no order:

    Bigelow – Director
    Affleck – Director
    Tykwer and Wachowskis – Director
    Cloud Atlas – Best Picture
    Jean-Louis Trintignant – Best Lead Actor
    Denis Lavant – Best Lead Actor
    Marion Cotillard – Best Lead Actress
    The Intouchables – Best Foreign Language Film
    Cloud Atlas – Best Makeup
    Holy Motors – Best Makeup

  • http://www.facebook.com/irvin.malcolm Irvin Malcolm Contreras

    “Holy Motors”‘s snub in the Foreign Film category is not completely the Academy’s fault. France didn’t submit it for that category. Although it WAS eligible for all the other awards including Best Picture and Best Actor since it got the proper theatrical screenings.

  • acharlie

    Ah yes I always forget about that. Only one submission per country. I thought The Intouchables was a shoe-in for France.

  • http://twitter.com/Pete_Volk Pete Volk

    Yeah, I was more criticizing France for their snub of the film.