@Background Pony #276A  
It was up for best picture.

@Macharius  
Look at how incredibly wrong you are. LOOK AT IT.

@The CLaUD  
True. Haven’t seen Ex Machina yet, so I can’t really compare them closely. I just know that Mad Max looked awesome. :p

@Japanese Teeth  
yeah, those aren’t visual effects. That’d be set design (or possibly prop design I guess). But honestly, I think Ex-Machina really deserved the award, considering how convincing that robot chick looks throughout the entire film. Not to mention that it wasn’t exactly a big studio that made the film. you really gotta give those guys some credit.

@Background Pony #09ED  
It totally got shafted out of the “Best Visual Effects” award though. The sheer fact that they actually built all of those contraptions and then actually blew them up deserved some recognition. Then again, maybe it doesn’t actually qualify as special effects when they basically just did everything for real and filmed it.

@Background Pony #276A  

 
Costume, sound, makeup - these all sounds like ‘fair enough’ wins for the film to me - it did put a lot of art and effort into how it looked and sounded.

@Macharius  
Yes, but you’re not… That is the distinction.

@The CLaUD  
If I was being paid Leonardobux, hell yes I’d crawl through some snow drifts and eat unidentifiable meat bits.

@Background Pony #276A  
>entertained
 
That how Fury Road got all technical awards. It was not aiming to be best film. It was aiming to be witnessed. Shiny and chrome.

@TheAntiCat
 
Choo choo!

You know, I have to be honest here. I enjoyed Mad Max: Fury Road. I was thoroughly entertained by it. But I honestly don’t think it was really an Oscar worthy film.

>a post about Mad Max  
>everyone talking about Leo
 
I’m glad y’all have your Derailment hats on.  

@Macharius  
Well, yes, you’re right that your friends could do that, but the question is: Would they?  
Or moreover, would you?

@The CLaUD  
But equally by that logic Bear Grylls is the most Oscar-worthy man on screens today.
 
It’s just so stupid and ironic that after decades years of acting and some really great performances he gets the best actor award for a film with barely any actual acting in it. Pretty much everyone I know can drag themselves through a snowdrift whiling looking downright miserable, because like you said - he’s not actually acting.

@Macharius  
@PwnyPony  
Also, as a film student, I feel obligated to point out that the award wasn’t for best picture, but best actor. The quality of the film has no effect on the award, as it’s all about how well DiCaprio did, despite film quality. And the majority of that film was as good as it could get… Because for the most part; he wasn’t acting. Through the majority of the film, he was actually crawling through the snow, and pulling himself from shallow graves, and eating real raw liver (or was it a diffirent organ?)… Of his own volition!
 
Despite how engaging the film was, you really have to admit:  
The man has balls.  
And that’s what the award’s all about.

And the winner for best short documantary is…
 
Maud Max-? No.

@Macharius  
It just shows Hollywood lacks taste. He did so many brilliant movies over the years and that snore fest is what wins him an Oscar.

@Xulious
 
Who knows? ¯*(ツ)*/¯

WITNESS ME  
WITNESS HIM  
WITNESSED!!

@iluvdawubz  
I bet he can’t get another ( ͡º ͜ʖ ͡º)

Looks like I’ll slowly learn the coming days about this year’s Oscar winners in tertiary ways like this.

@Macharius
 
I haven’t seen it.

@iluvdawubz  
And all it took was two and a half hours of crawling around in the snow, groaning and falling off of cliffs!
 
God, The Revenant was such a boring, boring film.

Leonardo finally received his first Oscar. RIP “Leo will never get an Oscar” meme.