# Was "Legend" somehow ineligible for Oscars?

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**Created:** [January 20, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-legend-somehow-ineligible-for-oscars/743674 "2016-01-20T14:30:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-legend-somehow-ineligible-for-oscars/743674/21 "2016-01-21T23:48:19Z")

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Speaking as, I suppose in order, an identical twin, a Brit, and an adopted Londoner, I’m not sure the film was all that. The whole FX business of Hardy doing the dual roles was clearly the gimmick and he executed that nicely enough at that.  
I’d even argue that it got the factual aspects better than _The Krays_. But the whole thing just felt a bit samey after that previous go (amongst others) at the material.

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**Author:** ![Uniqueorn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uniqueorn/32/2807_2.png) [@Uniqueorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniqueorn)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-legend-somehow-ineligible-for-oscars/743674/22 "2016-01-22T00:03:14Z")

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Hardy ruined “The Dark Knight Rises”, so he will never get an Oscar. It’s only fair!

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**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-legend-somehow-ineligible-for-oscars/743674/23 "2016-01-22T01:11:08Z")

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> [@AlsoNamedBort](#):
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> They don’t show the full amount, but you can see it made $27 mil in the UK.

Exactly. Box Office Mojo’s web architecture appears to have been designed by a 12 year old, so sometimes data and pages are not linked together…as you noted, the ‘Foreign’ tab has international box office though the summary tab doesn’t.

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**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2016, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-legend-somehow-ineligible-for-oscars/743674/24 "2016-01-22T10:39:01Z")

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> [@EllisDee](#):
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> Recent years? Not to make you feel super old, but the Hannibal Lecter nomination was 25 years ago.

Make that not be true ☹

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