Oscar Nominations Reaction & Breakdown - Justice for Delroy Lindo! 

Toni Collette getting snubbed was the start of Dan's super villain origin story. This is one more chapter in the tale of Chart-Man and his heroic nemesis Scoops McGee.

They should add a new sound category just for Tenet called "Most Sound". Christopher Nolan would win every time !

"He'll play another old man, and he'll get nominated" Dan you're the man!

Dan Murrell is the Lorax of underappreciated actors.

Delroy lindo being overlooked is criminal, that speech where he looks at the camera still stays with me to this day

Sound of Metal losing Best Sound would be like if Phantom Thread had lost Best Costume Design.

Dan Murrel: Champion of Under-Appreciated Actors

Low-key disappointed that Palm Springs didn't get any love for Screenplay or something, I was really impressed with that one.

I knew it was a bit of a long shot since the Academy doesn’t reward comedies that often but I REALLY wanted Palm Springs to get nominated for Best Original Screenplay. That was my personal biggest snub.

Dan is low-key lobbying for a Delroy Lindo interview for the channel.

I'm starting to think the academy has something against Spike Lee telling certain stories about the black experience. Denzel was snubbed for Malcolm X, and Delroy was snubbed for Da 5 Bloods.

Dan: Gary Oldman was fine but Delroy Lindo should have been nominated instead and won. Oldman can be nominated again in three or four years for playing another old man. 😂 The shade, Dan. The shade...

Thanks Dan for mentioning that POC being recognized for good work isn't about being "woke" .

The most shocking nomination was Mulan for best visual effects.

I'm sooo happy for Youn Yuh-jung!! She deserves to win 100% in my book.

SO happy for "Sound of Metal". That was an incredible film.

I'm miffed Delroy Lindo didn't score a nomination too. But I am even more puzzled that Da 5 Bloods didn't get a Best Picture nomination either, considering only 8 films were picked.

Delroy Lindo's snub is totally Toni Collet in Hereditary. Very unfortunate.

Last time the oscars really hurt me with a snub was Lupita in “Us”. I legit thought she was gonna get to be the second black best actress winner.

Kaluuya's "I am....a revolutionary" speech might get him over the edge for the Oscar. First of all, he's amazing and I had chills, and then thinking about the ceremony when they clip out performances, that's the one scene to clip out and make everyone shiver.

Delroy Lindo is the best performance I've seen in years, not just this year. Easily deserved to be nominated and win

Honestly, I’m pretty happy with these. Aside from a couple snubs (Delroy Lindo), pretty much everyone here deserves it. Super exited to see Judas and Sound of Metal got a lot of love.

Another Round is such a good movie. Vinterberg deserves it! He is everything Von Trier wants to be, but Vinterberg is never pretentious.

I was a little disappointed that "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" didn't get even a nomination for best adapted screenplay. Such a great piece of art, yet snubbed by literally everyone everywhere. And cinematography was great there too.

Loved hearing your well informed thoughts! Thank you!

I know next to nothing about hollywood committees, critics, etc. so I always appreciate your viewpoint and insider knowledge. Keep up the good work!

Another Round was one of my favorite movies last year, so I'm happy it got some recognition. There's always more people I'd like to see nominated, though, but I'm happy about that one

When you said, you've had seen Mads Mikkelsen as a candidate to best supporting actor nom, you meant leading right? - Because he is the lead.

Hell hath no fury like a Murrell scorned.

Everyone else: Snyder Cut review! Dan: Here are my thoughts on the Oscar noms.

I can't believe I'm living in this reality where TENET Score didn't even get nominated!!! I get Academy always trying to snub Chris of other noms...but this one??? Maybe they thought, Ludwig has already has Won it for Black Panther...but still I have seen all the movies this year but No Other Score has come in as close to its ingenuity to the screenplay itself than TENET's.

I had no interest in Da 5 Bloods (I’m not the biggest Spike Lee fan), but you’ve single-handily sold me on it with your passion.

First? ________ I think we still got some good nominations in spite of everything. Judas and the Black Messiah was strange though. Two actors in supporting role, then who is the lead in that one? Agree about Delroy Lindo

I blame Netflix solely for Lindo (and the movie in general) getting snubbed or shut out. They should’ve fought harder for it. Stuff like this is why Marty left for Apple to do his next few movies (theatrical stuff too)

Whatever you think of the academy, the films on the list are incredible!

I'm disappointed Never Rarely Sometimes Always wasn't nominated for anything. Sidney Flanigan was excellent.

Fuck Yeah! ANOTHER ROUND!

Great Oscars breakdown, keep up the good work 👍

Lon had a good " nominate Delroy Lindo you cowards" shirt. I vibewith both your energy on that

The academy ignoring campaign placement has happened twice that I recall. Winslet (The Reader) and Hughes (Whale Rider), both campaigned supporting, but they both got into the lead category. I’m not sure if Shire was in this situation for “Rocky”, she won critic awards for supporting, but was nominated in lead for it at the Oscars.

New category coming in 2021 after intensive lobbying by Warner x Nolan: "Best a lot of sounds"

Thanks for great content as always Dan

Great episode Dan!

Do the numbers, then, and find out if a movie is actually less statistically likely to get nominated if it's released early in the year.

Honestly this year was the first that I can think of that I ever thought every movie in the Best Motion Picture category deserves it. Surprise noms were Farmageddon and Another Shot for sure. But I really like Shaun the Sheep so you won't catch me complaining

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gary oldman could've easily been swapped out with delroy lindo, same goes for glenn close with literally any other actress who was in a supporting role that year - I was really holding out hope that ellen burstyn could squeeze in, but alas!

So many snubs for Spike Lee and "Da 5 Bloods", Regina King and "One Night in Miami", and George C. Wolfe and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom". The number of nominations for "Borat" and "Mank" are disheartening.

Promising young woman nominated for editing, writing, directing, actress and movie is making me very happy. The ones you need to win best picture 🤞🏻🤞🏻

The best part about the oscar nominations video on youtube was tha at Bruce the Shark model made a cameo in the first 10 seconds.

Dan called another surprise nominee back in a review over the summer, and it’s one I was very happy to see get a nomination after being snubbed at the Golden Globes... Best Original Song: Husavik (My Home Town) - Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga I hope when they announce the song right before the performance on the Oscar telecast someone in the audience yells “NO! PLAY JAJA DING DONG!”

Voters should be given a window to vote on a film when it's released by score. Give it an out of 100 score, submit it securely to the Academy within 2 months or something. Then have a quota to make sure people actually watch and vote, make them earn the right rather than just looking good on their resume. And then no campaigning. It shouldn't be a popularity contest or voting for your mates

My favorite Delroy Lindo performances: Crooklyn (my favorite), Clockers, Malcolm X, Gone in 60 Seconds, The One, Ransom, Da 5 Bloods. He's a great actor. I'm not surprised he didn't get recognized unfortunately. I'm just glad I've been able to see his performances.

Keisha Castle-Hughes was campaigned in the supporting actress category (even though she WAS the Whale Rider) and the academy, said NOPE (and she ended up in Lead). It does happen, though as you said, it is rare.

Love the passion!

The quarterly Academy screenings starting for the 94th Academy Awards may help with the end of year bias in nominations.

DELROY....totally F'D OVER ..AGAIN! HE WAS BRILLIANT.on every level you could ask for an Actor to give you, and for the role he portrayed, just STELLAR!..DA 5 BLOODS was also amazing...and while I fully admit I have not see every film, and others have...I just can't see how DA 5 BLOODS wasn't nominated.

I think one night in miami deserved that picture nom, happy that sorkin didn’t got directing

I cannot believe Lindo has been so disregarded. I don’t think Da Five Bloods in general has received enough acclaim :/

Totally right Dan about Delroy not being nominated.

You should really watch Garrone's Pinocchio, it's a very interesting take on the novel but very faithful in terms of contents and look. So stunning to watch. It really deserves those two nominations. The english version has been adapted and dubbed in Italy with Italian voice actors too. So if someone want to watch it in English (I understand who don't want to deal with subs) that's a faithful and very well made version too.

Indeed many including myself are disappointed that Delroy got snubbed. What the Academy should do is give him an Honorary Oscar!!!

I'm glad TENET didn't get nominated for much. *Exposition* (but you can't hear or understand any of it) *: The Movie*

Another Round is fantastic. Easily the best movie of 2020 for me. I still think about the movie even though it is months since I saw it. It is really more about life than drinking. Also, Mads Mikkelsen should have been nominated for best actor. Over the course of the movie he goes from depressed middle aged man to dancing jazz ballet in the streets (oh, yes, Mikkelsen was trained in jazz ballet before taking up acting). His character is evolving scene by scene.

you should check out Garrone's Pinocchio, from a visual standpoint it's a delight. I liked it less than Garrone's previous movies, The Tale of Tales and Dogman, but still a very solid watch!

Sure the eligibility window has been longer this year, but surely it's also been less packed. There's no excuse for the academy members to have not gone back and watched films from earlier in the year. It's not like they've been busy making movies themselves.

I think Dominique Fishback was overlooked

I knew it would never get nominated, but I was really pulling for 'Never Rarely Sometimes Always'. It was a beautiful film that I knew had a 0% chance of being nominated for anything, which sucks.

I'm never going to get over the Lindo snub. Unforgivable!

In the documentary/international film categories there’s a bit of history made this year. Collective is the first Romanian production to ever be nominated for an Academy award! As much as it saddens me that it stands on the shoulders of such a tragedy, I’m happy for my home country to finally be recognised. And in case you’re wondering if the name sounds a bit familiar, President Obama put it on his top film of 2020 list at the beginning of the year.

18:20 All In was fantastic but I'm at least glad My Octopus Teacher got in

Delroy Lindo's snub is a shame, as our other snubs like Ma Rainey and One Night in Miami missing Picture and Director and Picture and Screenplay, respectively. but I'm happier with the Academy's surprises than I am disappointed by their snubs. Lakeith Stanfield's nomination is something that I have been predicting for a while now, and even though his inclusion in the Supporting Actor category is odd, I'm super happy that he surprised everyone and made it in. His performance was phenomenal and I'm so happy he received recognition. Judas in general overperforming might be a surprise for many, but it was something I predicted for ages and I'm so glad I was correct about that because it's a phenomenal film. Also, Sound of Metal's many nominations were surprising to me: I didn't expect it to be embraced so warmly by the Academy but I'm very happy it was, since it was one of my favorite films of the last year. There were also some snubs I was happy about this year like Aaron Sorkin's mediocre direction for The Trial of the Chicago 7 missing out on a nomination and Chadwick Boseman's nothing performance in Da Five Bloods being snubbed after making Critic's Choice and SAG. But mostly I'm happy for Lakeith, Judas and the Black Messiah, and Sound of Metal.

Fascinating to see the technical awards without the blockbusters in the mix. Ww84 didn’t get anything and Tenet certainly got less than expected before it came out. Should be fascinating to see how the winners end up.

I saw "Mank", and I was just underwhelmed by it. It seemed like it was artificially created in a lab to win Oscars. But it just wasn't that compelling. Especially compared to Citizen Kane. And can Hollywood become obsessed with a different old movie for awhile? There are plenty of great ones. Some of them even have women in them who aren't 'the wife' or 'the mother'. Having seen Citizen Kane again in preparation of seeing Mank, I gotta say, I'm over it. I was struck by how the 'great man' narrative of Citizen Kane was largely played straight, it fell short of really criticizing and deconstructing and subverting that idea.

Comedy historically does very well in the Supporting categories. See Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny, Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda, Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite, Whoopi Goldberg in Ghost. A stand-out comedic performance can not only get nominated but win.

Sidenote, but I love the artwork on the nomination-cards.

Frankly, TENET wasn't very good. The choreography for the fight scenes and FX deserve recognition, but once you get past the gimmick, there just isn't much else there.

Another Round is a fantastic movie that i really hope will win

While I would have liked to have seen more nominations for Da 5 Bloods, I thought the score nomination was a genuine welcome surprise. I was figuring that 5th slot was going to be Alexandre Desplat for Midnight Sky or Ludwig Goransson for Tenet.

The fact that Dick Johnson is Dead and All In got snubbed in favor of The Octopus Teacher is probably my biggest frustration. Aside from that I'm happy with the nominations for the movies I've seen. I'll be checking out the other ones I can in the next few weeks.

I continue to by mystified by peoples reaction to Da 5 Bloods. I thought it was awful. For me White Tiger is the ultimate snub of this year. Just an amazing film, that also said so much about class and the way humans treat each other. I think Hailey Bennet deserved a nom for best actress in Swallow. I think I agree with the consensus that Mank really shouldn't have gotten any of these noms. It's not bad, but definitely not Oscar caliber.

My biggest takeaway was Andra Day. Such a fantastic performance from her she really blew me away, I was a bit surprised Tigress and Tweed didn’t get an original song nomination but otherwise really happy to see Andra Day there. I believe it’s only the second time in history where 2 Black women are competing in the same best actress category too

My Rants: - No Delroy Lindo for Best Actor - No Soul for Orig. screenplay - No Tenet Score nomination - No "Im thinking about ending things" nomination for adapt. screenplay - No First Cow nomination for cinematography - No noms. at all for Never rarely sometimes always

Imo this year had the least amount of snubs because I can only think of 3 that were big snubs imo. Delroy Lindo should've gotten nominated for best actor and soul should've gotten nominated for best original screenplay and best picture imo. One other one is WW84 for best hairstyling and makeup if you count that as a big award.

I’m realizing I missed a ton of good movies this year. P.S. I only saw Hereditary because of everyone talking about Toni Collette’s performance. Absolutely loved it. She was amazing!

People can't complain about "forced diversity" when the Academy left off Delroy Lindo for Leading Actor and One Night/Ma Rainey for Best Picture.

Pinocchio was a big hit over here, in Italy. It’s, of course, very far from Disney’s approach, more faithful to the original novel. It’s also directed by Matteo Garrone, director of Gomorrah, an author You should look into, Dan. I think you might enjoy his Tale of Tales and Dogman. Expand your movie boundaries! 😁

Tenet would be valid for best Sound Editing, but not Mixing. However, I’m glad that they’ve combined the categories.

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Hey Dan, check out My Octopus Teacher in the Best Documentary Feature. I know it wasn’t a snub, but might be cool giving some love to the lesser know categories in a separate vid :)

Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee, and Da 5 Bloods in general not getting any of the major nominations is puzzling. Granted I do think Best Actor will go to Chadwick for Ma Rainey and rightfully so, but Delroy not getting any nomination in either best or supporting, and no director nom for Spike is sad. And yes, the Academy really does overlook and ignore films released prior to October and that’s stupid.

I was shocked as well Delroy Lindo wasn't nominated and I watched Da 5 Bloods twice in Netflix, the first time I watched it I was in awe moments for Delroy strong and powerful performance and the second time I watched it on Christmas holiday and I get emotional because Chadwick Boseman latest performance and there's one film that didn't get nominated was My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising for best animated film and for original song.

Gotta shill for Another Round for a bit. Fantastic movie. Cannot recommend it enough, and I’m really happy to see it get more love then expected.

Like the video based on the thumbnail 💜💜💜💜

Seriously, what was borat 2’s screenplay adapted from? Borat 1?

Another Round was best film I saw last year.

3 Thoughts. 1. Given the academy's long proud tradition of aggressively snubbing Spike Lee projects, I'm not surprised Da 5 Bloods didn't get the love. I actually predicted that would happen last summer. And though I love the idea that it would have done better released this fall, I don't believe it. As we saw with Moonlight/Barry Jenkins, the Academy seems to have a problem nominating Black directors on back-to-back features. 2. The rage that you feel for the snub of Delroy Lindo is the rage I feel toward the snub of Boys State. If Time, one of the best movies of last year, loses to My Octopus Teacher, I'm going to LOSE IT. 3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always was a painfully snubbed film. Even in October, I thought it had a real chance, but the super long Oscar season and the late window--Kirby taking Flannigan's spot?--did it in. Still, my rage shall burn for its snubbing till the end of time.

JUSTICE FOR DELROY LINDO

Glad I'm not the only one really sad about Delroy Lindo getting snubbed. I knew it was a long shot because of the lack of attention for him at other awards but I was holding out hope until they read them out. I thought Elisabeth Moss was brilliant in The Invisible Man but I knew she had no shot at a nomination.

How you feel about the Delroy Lindo snub is how I feel about Mads Mikkelsen getting snubbed for Another Round.