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Which movies were totally ignored by the Academy? Which performers
and filmmakers were ignored? The list is quite long, of course. Below
are the most notable omissions from the Oscar 2010 shortlist.
Marc Webb’s (500) Days of Summer, Pedro Almodóvar’sBroken Embraces, Todd
Phillips‘ The Hangover, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story, Duncan Jones‘
Moon, Cary Fukunaga’s Sin Nombre, Sebastian Silva’s The Maid, and Olivier
Assayas‘ Summer Hours were totally left out.
And so were Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles, Nancy Meyers‘ It’s
Complicated, Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant!, John Hillcoat’s The Road,
Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo, Jim Sheridan’s
Brothers, Roland Emmerich’s 2012, and Grant Heslov’s The Men Who Stare at Goats.
Among the individuals left out wereJulianne Moore (A Single Man), Samantha
Morton (The Messenger), Michael Stuhlbarg (A Serious Man), Robert Downey Jr
(Sherlock Holmes), Marion Cotillard (Nine), Catalina Saavedra (The Maid), Clint
Eastwood (Invictus), Michael Haneke (The White Ribbon), Emily Blunt (The Young
Victoria), Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw (Bright Star), and Diane Kruger and
Melanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds).
Also, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel ((500) Days of Summer), Sam
Rockwell (Moon), Alec Baldwin (It’s Complicated), Saoirse Ronan and Susan
Sarandon (The Lovely Bones), Christian McKay (Me and Orson Welles), Nora Ephron
(Julie & Julia), cinematographer Dion Beebe (Nine), plus A.R. Rahman’s song "Na
Na" (Couples Retreat), Agnes Varda’s documentary The Beaches of Agnes, and
Warwick Thornton’s best foreign language film semi-finalist Samson & Delilah.
It’s always good to remember that all of the above may — and likely
did — get a number of votes. Some may even have showed up on a majority
of the ballots — but as a result of the preferential voting system
their potential nominations went kaput.
