God those lists suck.  I want Cee Lo to win so he can say F*ck You to everyone at the show haha.  Seriosuly, if Bieber wins anything (he might win everthing)  I'm done lol.

Man, you guys hate every award show.

Crash won a Best picture Oscar, and The Blind Side was a Best Picture nominee last year (you copuld consider it the equivalent of Teenage Dream's Album of the Year nomination at the Grammys).

Plus the Oscars are too much of a political game (think of the smear campaign the producers of The Hurt Locker were using against Avatar last year), and become more like the presidential elections, rather than an awards show where they should award the actual quality and merit of a film, performance etc.

Some of those song's are okay,but man music sure does suck these days. You just need a pretty face and be able to sing just good enough to get praised. looking at that list I see 5% talent and 95% crap. lol

I'm well aware of the many mistakes the Academy Awards has made over the years (Gladiator over Wo Hu Cang Long being the most painful for me) but they are overall respectable at least. The Hurt Locker smear campaign was the work of ONE of the 3 producers and he was punished.

I like how unpredictable the Oscars can be and even though they fail to recognize some truly great cinema sometimes they do bring to light some under the radar gems (Hurt Locker is the lowest grossing best picture winner to date).

It was not much of a punishment. He was simply not invited to the ceremony. If he had been disqualified, now that would've been an appropriate punishment. An even better one would've been disualifying the whole movie, as the campaign went into effect and influenced people's decisions.

The Oscars have went the opposite route of the Grammys: they award small indie movies that no one watches, that are pretentious, and seem important because they're about major "issues" even though they can be of poor quality (Crash, The Reader), while ignoring mainstream movies, even if those movies are very good (Star Wars, E.T., Avatar etc.). At least the Grammys are less predictable though. My fav awards show last Year in terms of winners was the Emmys, Mad Men and Modern Family FTW!). The Grammys had OK winners (though I hate Taylor Swift), and the Oscars were simply terrible and predictable. I wasn't impressed with The Hurt Locker, and found it to be the standard war movie that wins a Best Picture Oscar (not to mention that I was simply disgusted by the fact that they nominated it for it's non existent score, and gave it the sound Oscars over Avatar, and the screenplay Oscar for it's terrible terrible screenplay, instead of Inglorious Basterds ).

You guys are saying these are shit nominations.

BUT

YOU

FORGOT

ONE

Divert your eyes to Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs." They're an indie band, and a helluva band, and thats on hell of an album. Realize that they, an indie band, are nominated for Album Of The Year.

Well, Katy Perry's Album of the Year nomination pretty much negates the prestige brought by Arcade Fire's nomination. Her nomination is the biggest WTF nom I've seen at an awards' show in a long long long time.

But Katy Perry is sexy. So its okay.