u/Budget-Poem-2052

After seeing all the vitriolic reactions from fans to basically every TV series finale from the past 5 or 10 years, I'm genuinely questioning if it's even possible to make a series finale with positive fan reception. For the record, I'm sure some of these finales deserved the hate they got. Game of Thrones, for instance, was a bad ending by almost any objective metric. But even Succession, which I think had about as perfect a finale as possible, was lambasted in internet circles like reddit. So it really leaves me scratching my head.

Is Bradley Cooper the most over-nominated male actor in Oscar history? Even if we're ignoring other categories, he's already been nominated FIVE times for acting. This isn't meant to come across as an excuse to bash him, but does anyone else think that's a bit excessive? To put this into context that's only ONE nomination less than Daniel Day-Lewis, Anthony Hopkins, Sean Penn, Tom Hanks, and Michael Caine. It's also more than Christian Bale, Edward Norton, Gary Oldman, Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp, Joaquin Phoenix, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. And if I'm wrong, please tell me who you think the most over-nominated actor is.

Has anyone noticed that, for the last 10 years, there's a pretty consistent pattern where every even year has an overall bad selection of Oscar films, and every odd year has a good one? Think about it:

2025-- Generally considered a pretty good year

2024- Usually considered a weak year

2023-- Pretty good year

2022- I know a lot of people like this year just because of the EEAO sweep, but I think it's a pretty bad year other than Tar, which is probably the best movie of the 2020's

2021-- This is the one year that breaks the rule. A BAD, odd year

2020- Pandemic year. Not as bad a selection as it could have been considering the circumstances, but definitely not a great year

2019-- Very good year. Honestly, we might look back on this as the last truly great year for cinema.

2018-- A few gems like Roma and The Favourite, but still a bad year

2017-- Pretty good year. I don't think most of the films were great, but almost all of them were good

Before 2017, I don't think the pattern particularly holds, since I think 2014 is probably the best year of the 2010's (although 2019 gives it close competition) and 2010 is also strong. But I still think it's interesting how consistent the pattern's been.