Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin in It's Complicated (top); Penelope Cruz, Lluís Homar in Broken Embraces (middle); Agnes Varda in The Beaches of Agnes (bottom)
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's Broken 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 were Julianne 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.
Photos: Broken Embraces (Emilio Pereda & Paola Ardizzoni / El Deseo / Sony Pictures Classics); It's Complicated (Melinda Sue Gordon / Universal); The Beaches of Agnes (Cinema Guild)
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Robert Downey should have been nominated insted of Morgan Freeman.
can't believe they didn't nominate (500) Days of Summer for best screenplay.