# Possible Academy Awards leak **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-academy-awards-leak/486653 "2009-02-20T01:41:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-academy-awards-leak/486653/21 "2009-02-21T13:42:17Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > See post #6. Some guy named RickJay. You’re a bit confused there, dude. I was responding to your “Ha ha ha” about The Reader winning Best Original Screenplay. I never said a thing about Best Picture. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-academy-awards-leak/486653/22 "2009-02-21T15:05:21Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > **fusoya** , why would you be in the minority for loving **Tropic Thunder**. LOTS of people loved it, here at the Dope and everywhere else. Look, it got nominated for an Oscar! It’s a wonderful movie, the funniest movie of last year, and one of the best, funny or not. It made a shitload of money too. You’re not in the minority at all. Nobody who I’ve talked to in person about Tropic Thunder liked it. My dad even complained that it was too violent… and for the record, I thought Crash was a MUCH better movie than Brokeback Mountain, and I picked it as my favorite movie of the year on Jan 1, before the nominees were even announced. And while I wouldn’t say Shakespeare in Love was my favorite movie of 1998, I greatly preferred it over Saving Private Ryan, which was nowhere near the best picture of that year (everybody seems to forget that like Full Metal Jacket, it’s a great 30 minute war movie, but there’s so much dreck in the rest of the film that it brought it down significantly). One of the reasons that I really hate award shows is because some people have nothing better to do than to complain about who won and who didn’t. Entertainment Weekly did an AWFUL and INSULTING article a couple weeks ago about who SHOULD have won the awards a couple years ago, and it seemed to be written only to complain about Shakespeare and Crash again (and Renee Zelwinger)… ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-academy-awards-leak/486653/23 "2009-02-21T18:55:22Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > 2003 is 6 years ago. Batman didn’t even get a nomination nod. Six years ago is still pretty recent in my reckoning. I don’t consider anything to belong to the true past until at least the Reagan administration – at least as far as annual events such as the Oscars are concerned. I guess I measure time differently than you. Ed ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-academy-awards-leak/486653/24 "2009-02-22T03:39:42Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > You’re a bit confused there, dude. I was responding to your “Ha ha ha” about The Reader winning Best Original Screenplay. I never said a thing about Best Picture. :smack: You’re absolutely right. I apologize. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-academy-awards-leak/486653/25 "2009-02-23T05:02:22Z")
Well, I guess this list is quite definitively proven wrong! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-academy-awards-leak/486653/26 "2009-02-23T06:02:19Z")
> [@Rodgers01](#): > > Well, I guess this list is quite definitively proven wrong! 🙂 I am sure a case can be made that the leaked list is correct but the televised awards were wrong. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/possible-academy-awards-leak/486653.md?page=1)