2012 Oscar Nominations - also known as "what the what?!"

This morning the gorgeous star of the upcoming Hunger Games films, Jennifer Lawrence, announced this year's long awaited 2012 Oscar nominations. There is a ton of backlash and there very well should be. First off, I think the most heinous of all would be the Best Picture nomination for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Rotten Tomatoes currently has this particular film at a 48% rating. Mathematically speaking, that means that a little more than half of the people that saw the film did not like it while the next lowest rated film was The Help at 76%, meaning three out of four people like the film.  It is completely irrational that a film that ranks so low is up for Best Picture of the year especially since the Academy changed their rules the year that gave the ten picks more flexibility. Five percent of the voters must vote for a film in order to be eligible for a Best Picture nomination. Therefore, five percent of people in the Academy are complete dumbasses, excuse my language.

Here are some of the snubs that have been cited over the course of the day by myself and a few other cinephiles.

1. Michael Fassbender in Shame, he showed a lot of... emotion in this film (nudity jokes always welcome!)
2. The Adventures of Tin Tin in the animated category despite the fact that it won the Golden Globe and is really awesome, 
3. Tilda Swinton in We Need To Talk About Kevin being neglected for Rooney Mara in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Noomi Rapace did it better, just saying)
4. Ryan Gosling was not recognized for three highly acclaimed roles (Drive, The Ides of March and Crazy, Stupid, Love)
5. I personally would like to say how disappointed I was in the lack of awards the last few years for the Harry Potter series. David Yates did a hell of a job helming the last four films and its a true shame that they never recognized it.
6. Albert Brooks as his dark turn in Drive also has been said to be a snub though I have yet to see the film

I am loving the Octavia Spencer and Melissa McCarthy poopy nominations for Best Supporting Actress as well as the recognition of Demian Bichir in A Better Life which I have yet to see but hear is wonderful. "La Luna" by Pixar is a truly wonderful short as well as the documentary Pina really shows off its 3D chops. I also agreed with giving A Separation a nomination for Original Screenplay.

This year there are 60 films nominated, only 2 more than last year and granted I can count correctly, and I have seen 19 of them including:
The Help, The Artist, Hugo, Moneyball, The Tree of Life, War Horse, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Iron Lady, Bridesmaids, Puss in Boots, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2, Anonymous, Jane Eyre, Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, Pina, A Separation, The Adventures of Tin Tin, La Luna, and Margin Call.

Let it begin!