What the hell? How damn stupid is this? The Screen Actors Guild just released their nominations for this year’s SAG awards, and for the most part they all look ok (not great… but ok). But there is one huge thing on this list stands out to me like Doug Nagy teaching a sexual abstinence class.
The Departed is by far the best film of the year and will win the Oscar (and perhaps FINALLY give Martin Scorsese his Best Director trophy), and I’ve said from day 1 that it would be a crime if the star of the movie, Leonardo DeCaprio, didn’t get nominated for Best Actor. Well… SAG has nominated DiCaprio for his role in The Departed… but they fucking nominated him for Best SUPPORTING actor. WTF?!?! Are they high on huff???
For ANYONE who has seen The Departed, you know Dicaprio is the LEAD in the film. He has the most screen time, the most dialog, yadda yadda yadda… how the hell do they justify nominating him for the best SUPPORTING actor??? This is just plain stupid.
Yesterday I hear a reporter explain that THERE ARE NO RULES as to what defines a lead or supporting actor, and therefore they can put anyone in whichever category they want. That’s even MORE stupid.
So basically the lesson here today is that LEAD actor and SUPPORTING actor are all the same fucking thing. You just nominate the weaker ones for Supporting, and the better ones for Lead, and they both get to call themselves SAG winners. How utterly and mind numbingly fucking ridiculous.
HEY SAG… YOU’RE A BUNCH OF FREAKING IDIOTS. Now, would that be a LEAD insult, or a SUPPORTING one? Just curious.
