Despite the fact that movie theaters have been either closed or at minimum capacity for the majority of the year, IT'S OSCAR SEASON!! The Oscars are like my personal Superbowl, and nomination announcement day is always exciting. What made the cut? Who will go home a total loser? Getting an Oscar nomination cements one's movie cred in the history books forever, even during a weird COVID year, so a snub hurts extra hard! The following are what I consider to be the 10 biggest snubs of the 2021 Oscars:
10. The Invisible Man snubbed for Best Visual Effects, Best Actress, Best Sound
Horror movies getting respect at the Oscars is always the exception to the rule. Although Get Out, Silence of the Lambs, and The Exorcist show that sometimes a fright flick can cut through the sobering period pieces and family melodramas, it just wasn't The Invisible Man's year. Despite being a brilliant reinvention of the classic Universal Monster as a metaphor for hidden domestic abuse it earned no love this season. Elizabeth Moss delivers a fantastic performance essentially against "nothing" (I mean, it's an invisible man), the sound design was delicately calibrated for the perfect scares, and the visual effects were simple, but horrifying. I was hoping for it to sneak in there somewhere but oh well... at least this movie will definitely have a longer shelf life than most of the other nominees!
