What's Your All-Time Oscars Grudge?
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I swear to God, we’re about to close the book on this year’s Oscars — although I’ve been singing “I’m Just Ken” since Sunday and I am not sorry — but I was reminded of one of my favorite rant topics this week: Long-Running Oscars Grudges. This is when you are mad, perhaps (even especially) irrationally, that someone did not win, or maybe even get nominated, for a particular performance or film and despite the passage of time, you have not gotten over it. I don’t mean that you’re angry with the person who did win or even with anyone in particular. You’ve just got free-floating, Academy-directed agita about what seems like AN INEXCUSABLE OVERSIGHT! The kind that leads to a rant beginning, “Don’t get me started,” and then goes on for ten straight minutes as your voice starts to reach Billy On the Street levels1. For example, a very reasonable Oscars grudge would be about Do the Right Thing losing Best Picture to Driving Miss Daisy. My own Oscars grudge2 is that Amy Adams, who should have w…