Nolan's Oscar snub remains awards season's biggest head-scratcher. It arrives as a kind of slap in the face for a filmmaking wunderkind whose meteoric rise from art house auteur to Intelligent Action Ace has made him, arguably, the hottest director in town. ...Personally, I think this is the reason that the Oscars seem to be less relevant every year. (Am I allowed to say that?) Joe Public doesn't want politics and snootiness - he just wants the actual best movie/actor/director to win. Why is that so hard to understand? But, I guess that's why we have the People's Choice Awards.
Nolan's exclusion from the Best Directors Club throws into stark relief some of the tricky social mores and you-just-haven't-earned-it-yet-baby groupthink governing the annual popularity contest that is the Oscars.
The article goes on to examine a few other possibilities for why Nolan may not have been nominated - take a peek.
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