Comments on: A Glimpse Into The Mind Of An Oscar Voter’s Ballot Is Depressing, Hilarious & Eye-Opening

By: Stranger

Stranger — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

What a dipshit.

By: yer

yer — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

Yawn comments are obviously trying to be provocative. Whose ballot is this, Lars Von Trier?

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

Sounds like Brett Ratner to me.

By: Puaena

Puaena — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

I imagined Peter Bogdanovich talking as I read the article so he's my guess. I don't know but I loved the thought process with all its bias and humor. And points all over to the guy for choosing Phoenix for Best Actor.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

I was going to say Kevin Smith, but there's not enough of his panache in the writing here (I'd expect one "snootchi bootchies" to slip out)

By: Glass

Glass — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

Would shit myself if this was Sofia Coppola's ballot

By: Seti

Seti — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

The manner in which The Playlist just shamelessly regurgitates the content of other websites is quite amusing.

I wonder what sort of lies the staff tell their parents when asked about what they do at work.

By: THOR

THOR — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

The guy behind the comments is a disgusting populist who thinks he's a funny guy, and doesn't sound Jewish or British also. Probably some hack like Taylor Hackford or Rob Marshall.

By: coke

coke — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

I truly believe this is William Friedkin… And I have to admit, even though he sounds like a jerk sometimes the guy made some very good choices.

By: Real

Real — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

What an unpleasant person. Crap like this reminds me exactly what a joke the whole process is and how correct Katherine Hepburn and Woody Allen were not to take these awards seriously.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

I don't find this the least bit surprising.

By: SEAN

SEAN — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

This is so tasteless & classless in every sense of the words. I cant even fathom what I just read. LIKE WHAT THE FLYING FUCK?!?!??!

I'm really disgusted. Whoever this ass wipe of a person is needs to go away forever. Where is the thinking about the art? The commentary about the actual piece of work & the meaning these films have sent out to do…. His whole diagnosis is so disturbing, where is the sophistication in your replies where is the deep insight into the films & nominees?!?!

""I don't vote for anyone's name I cant pronounce"" WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?! Ru fucking kidding me u asshole, that's just pathetic…. Not to mention how he voted for a film to win not b/c he thought it was deserving, but b/c he wanted to BLOCK another film from winning…. WOW just WOW. No wonder some of the greatest actors EVER have reacted so harshly to the Academy members…

By: Oogle monster

Oogle monster — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

Anyone who finds ANNE HATHAWAY "charming" is immediately wrong.

By: ash

ash — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

I'm not a big fan of Amour,but this quote really….I don't know how to describe it,just makes me laugh so hard,I don't even know if it's in a good way or a bad way.

"'Amour' is immediately disqualifiedâitâs just a woman dying, and thereâs no real story, and it made me feel like shit. "

By: HEY BUDDY

HEY BUDDY — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

This is kind of how I imagined them picking the awards anyway.

By: CL

CL — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

Just read the entire piece and found it amusing and not at all disgusting, wrong or whatever. It's funny and just the way I always thougth it would be. There's a reason so many people in that town don't really care about the Oscars. If they don't care neither should you. What I would really like to read is the ballots for all those high minded, serious, it's all about the art critics awards because I don't really think they are all that different, but they like to pretend they are.

By: chris

chris — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

sounds more like Mel Gibson to me.

By: MJ

MJ — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

"'Silver Linings [Playbook]' is a screenplay; the direction is not particularly important" — yeah, one it isn't a visually inert film, but especially important: director's that time & time again get excellent performances from actors (especially those actors you don't expect to deliver) obviously have a real knack for direction.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

Is Brett Ratner a member of the Academy? Cause this sounds like it could be his his internal monologue.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 13 May 2016 10:35:16 +0000

A few posters have been "stunned" at how this voter actually voted for best picture just to block out other films from winning. Frequently studios "quietly ask" their talent to vote just for their film–and leave off other films. So if you liked or were involved in "The Artist" last year, for example, you purposely didn't select other films or vote what you thought was 2nd best…second. This isn't as rampant as in TV, when guild members of HBO shows were rumored to have not voted for any other networks' shows when sending in their Emmy vote. What the Oscars and Emmys should do is simply have a system of voting for a single film/TV show…the "rating" system they used is purposely manipulated so people don't vote for their competition. No one ranks their competition "2nd" even if they honestly believe it's the 2nd best work… System=failure.