No really inane Oscar nominations today, but the Academy's romance with Afflicted Guy is clearly in crisis. Over the past forty years, the Best Actor Oscar has rewarded portrayals of the mentally handicapped (Cliff Robertson in Charly, 1968; Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump, 1994), the mentally ill (ranging from faker Jack Nicholson in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1976; delusional William Hurt in Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1985; and knocked-off-kilter Peter Finch in Network, 1976; to the suicidally depressed Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas, 1995; to the obsessive Geoffrey Rush in Shine, 1996; and Jack again in As Good as it Gets, 1997; to the sociopathically homicidal Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune, 1990; Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, 1991; and Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland, 2006); the blind (Al Pacino in The Scent of a Woman, 1992; and Jamie Foxx in Ray, 2004); the war-damaged (Jon Voight in Coming Home, 1978); and victims of cerebral palsy (Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot, 1989) and AIDS (Hanks again in Philadelphia, 1993).
Sixteen afflicted guys in less than four decades, most than 40 percent of the Oscars. So who did Mathieu Almaric piss off to get snubbed?
Emojis for the end of history
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