What I Really think of Oscar nominees, by an anonymous Academy Awards voter.

 

When most people think of the Academy Awards visions of red carpet glamour and long-winded acceptance speeches flash before their eyes as the entertainment industry celebrates itself on its biggest night of the year.
But little thought is put into what goes on behind the scenes to determine who gets nominated and why.
Now one of the Academy's 377 director's has spoken out anonymously - and hilariously - about his thoughts on Sunday's big award shows, including what he really thinks about some of Hollywood's biggest contenders.


The director sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to give his run down of this year's nominees.

While one of the favourites for Best Actress is of course Sandra Bullock for her highly celebrated turn as a scientist in the outer space drama Gravity, this particular voter was not impressed and considers her 'the weak link' in the esteemed category even going so far as to say 'she's just OK.'
The voter also slammed a kind of sacred cow in the acting community- Meryl Streep- for her role in August Osage County, calling it 'a bottom-drawer performance.'
He gives the Oscar to Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine.
But it was in the Best Supporting Actress category that real blood was drawn.
The director claimed that 'Julia Roberts was horrendous' in the star studded film August Osage County and that she did not deserve to be nominated.
He then went onto downplay the attention Lupita Nyong'o has received for her star turn in 12 Years A slave.
Of the actress he explained: '[She] was very good, but a lot of the commotion over her is attributable to people's tremendous empathy with and sympathy for the role she's playing.'
His pick for the category is Jennifer Lawrence, who won an Oscar last year for Silver Linings Playbook, for yet another David O Russell venture American Hustle.
In the Best Actor category, he claimed that Leonardo DiCaprio 'has been better' and wasn't deserving of an Oscar this time around for The Wolf Of Wall Street.

His pick for Best Actor is Christian Bale in American Hustle.
Meanwhile, in the Best Supporting Actor category he believes that Jared Leto will win, but only due to getting extra points for playing a transgender character, which he thinks 'is as close to pandering as you can get.'
His personal pick for Best Supporting Actor is Bradley Cooper in American Hustle.

In the Best Picture category he put American Hustle as the frontrunner with 12 Years a Slave a close second and The Wolf of Wall Street coming in third for most deserving of the Oscar win.
For Best Director he stuck with American Hustle for the sweep, which would be David O Russell's first win after three previous nominations.
He called The Wolf Of Wall Street 'bubble-gum Scorsese' while slamming Alfonso Cuarón as simply 'part of a committee of technicians who made [Gravity]'.
Adding that he has 'seen things at the planetarium that were at least as impressive.'