Oscars 2012: ‘Snubbed’ Albert Brooks, Patton Oswalt tweet woes
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‘You don’t like me, you really don’t like me,’ Albert Brooks tweeted Tuesday, a few hours after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences failed to recognize his performance as brutal gangster Bernie Rose in Nicolas Winding Refn’s ‘Drive’ with an Oscar nomination. Those nine words were all that fellow rejected actor Patton Oswalt (‘Young Adult’) need to get him going on a Twitter rant that pretty much encompassed every overlooked actor in this year’s Oscar race.
It began with Oswalt asking Brooks to join him for a drink at the Drawing Room. ‘Me and Serkis have been here since 6 am,’ he tweeted, referring to Andy Serkis and his failure to obtain an acting nod for his motion-capture work in ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes.’
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‘See you later tonight,’ he continued. ‘Serkis has Pogues on the jukebox and Fassbender just showed up in a pirate hat.’ Michael Fassbender was also ignored, with academy voters not recognizing him for his role as a sex addict in the harrowing drama ‘Shame.’
Oswalt was not content to settle with the actors. ‘We’re definitely going to run out of booze. Charlize & Tilda just pulled up in a stolen police car.’ Neither Charlize Theron nor Tilda Swinton was rewarded for her work in such prickly films as ‘Young Adult’ and ‘We Need to Talk About Kevin.’
His absurdist scene continued, begging Brooks to meet him. ‘Dude, get down here. Gosling is doing keg stands and Olsen and Dunst literally just emerged from a shower of rose petals.’
Ryan Gosling received no love for either of his compelling roles in ‘The Ides of March’ and ‘Drive.’ Elizabeth Olsen (‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’) and Kirsten Dunst (‘Melancholia’) were unable to crack the competitive lead actress category.
Oswalt then invoked Dunst’s controversial director Lars von Trier, who made waves in Cannes last year with some ill-considered remarks on Nazism: ‘Von Trier just pulled up in a pass van dressed as Goering. ‘Let’s go to Legoland! With a boozy hurrah, we’re out.’
Looks like Brooks missed his chance to accompany his fellow snubbies with Oswalt’s final tweet. ‘Oh. My. God. Just pulled up to Legoland. DiCaprio’s rented the park for the day. Dibs on the Duplo Gardens!’
It’s a shame we won’t get more commentary from Oswalt. His voice on the campaign scene was, to say the least, quite refreshing.
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-- Nicole Sperling