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Oscar Nominee of All Time Tournament: Round 1, Group A
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CATE BLANCHETT (1969-)
NOMINATIONS:
Lead- 1998 for Elizabeth, 2007 for Elizabeth: The Golden Age, 2015 for Carol, 2022 for Tar
Supporting- 2006 for Notes on a Scandal, 2007 for I'm Not There
WINS:
Supporting- 2004 for The Aviator
Lead- 2013 for Blue Jasmine
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MICHAEL V GAZZO (1923-1995)
NOMINATIONS:
Supporting- 1974 for The Godfather Part II
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Penelope Cruz pink gown by Atelier Versace at the 2007 Oscars.
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Nicole Kidman in Balenciaga @ 2007 Oscars
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Oscar Nominee of All Time Tournament: Round 1, Group A
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GEORGE BANCROFT (1882-1956)
NOMINATIONS:
Lead- 1928/29 for Thunderbolt
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RUBY DEE (1922-2014)
NOMINATIONS:
Supporting- 2007 for American Gangster
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2007 by by Nigel Parry
Photographed by Eric Charbonneau December 9, 2011 in LA
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A "I've been reading this book since 7pm and I'm not sure what in the world is going on in my life anymore" bitch's review of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Rating: 81/100
Summary: A book that made me root for a nerdy loser who's awkward and terrible with girls to an extent that could be perceived as creepy.
I don't even know how to summarize my thoughts on this book in a consistent way. The first chapter had me, hook line and sinker, although that might be bias from having just finished Magician: Apprentice and experiencing not-80s-fantasy prose for the first time in several days. I loved Lola, I loved Oscar, I liked all the chapters that centered around the two of them.
However, I did not particularly care for the extended family history chapters. They were very long, the mother's especially took me a very long time to read and after I finished it I thought I would put the book down for the night, but I realized that finishing it had put me basically halfway through and I should just keep going. I liked the chapter that followed, with Oscar and Yunior at Rutgers, didn't care for the next family history chapter, and have extremely mixed feelings about the ending. Obviously Oscar was always going to die at the end, it is called the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, so of course he was going to wind up dead but it was just. I mean I knew he was an idiot but wow he was an idiot. I was originally going to rate this book somewhere in the low 90s, but I knocked 10 points because I left the book with Mixed Feelings. But then if you know me you'll know that I love to complain about the endings of just about any work of fiction, so maybe it's not that bad after all.
I could go through and break the whole book down by category and talk about all the things I liked and disliked, but honestly I don't know how.
The writing was really good, if a little obvious that the author has probably been in academia for way too long. That's not entirely a bad thing, pretentious bitches everywhere love that kind of stuff, and I am not immune.
My main criticism is that the author referenced the Lord of the Rings every three pages basically, and there were a couple of those Lord of the Rings metaphors repeated several times throughout the book. Towards the end I wanted to say "read another book, dude". Also the Dune "fear is the mind killer thing" was referenced twice and WAY too close together to not be immediately noticeable that the author used the same line twice. It reminded me of that very particular kind of fanfiction written by sophomore English majors who make all of their characters inexplicably obsessed with Shakespeare, except it was with Lord of the Rings instead.
Final Verdict: This book had footnotes and I fucking love footnotes. I learned a lot about Dominican history that I didn't know, so that was really interesting. It was a much needed breath of fresh air after reading the two Magician books. I'd say it's a good book, but probably not suited to those of us who are not pretentious bitches.
Review Word Count: 524
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