Topic: Snubs

Melancholia More Than Deserved An Oscar Nomination For Best Picture

And Kirsten Dunst deserved one for Best Actress! More »

Patton Oswalt Is Hanging Out On Twitter With His Fellow Oscar Snub-ees

Patton Oswalt is reacting to his Best Supporting Actor snub the only way he knows how: by retreating into a fantasy land where all of his fellow snub-ees are hanging out and drinking with him. As is to be expected of the prolific funny man, he’s sharing this fantasy with us via Twitter. More »

The 5 Biggest Emmys Snubs

The entire cast of How I Met Your Mother

The Emmys have kind of popped up at us, but here’s the strange part: What’s most captivated us is not the nominees, but who got overlooked. More »

The 5 Biggest Tony Award Snubs

Chris Rock, The Motherf*cker With the Hat

Robin Williams, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

Daniel Radcliffe, How to Succeed in Business Without Ever Really Trying

Benjamin Walker, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

All awards shows can be problematic. The Oscars, the Emmys, the Tonys… no matter what the medium, the politics involved often determine who gets nominated and who wins more than the art itself. It’s true that the Tonys usually aren’t quite as bad as, say, the Oscars can be, largely because Broadway is a little more of a niche world than Hollywood; but snubs still happen, though, and this year, there are some pretty spectacular ones in terms of high-profile celebrities getting zilch for their efforts. More »