by: keaton marcus

WHO GOT SHUT OUT, AND WHO CAME WITH NOMINATIONS

A SOUR, SOUR SNUB: A QUIET PLACE COMES HOME WITH JUST ONE NOMINATION

After receiving an acclaimed 100% sweet on sweetandsourmovies.com, A Quiet Place scared up just one nomination from the 76th Golden Globes, for Best Original Score, and got shut out of the Best Drama section, most likely by competing blockbuster Black Panther. This modern-classic should have been nominated for much more.

2. A SWEET, SWEET SURPRISE: BLACK PANTHER NOMINATED FOR THREE

Becoming the first Marvel pic to be nominated, Black Panther received an 85% sweet approval rating on sweetandsourmovies.com, being praised for its almost all-black cast, powerful performances and thrilling special effects and was later nominated for Best Drama, Best Original Song (“All the Stars”) and Best Original Score totaling three. Overall, this is very, very impressive for a high-octane superhero flick.

3. A SOUR, SOUR SNUB: MARY POPPINS RETURNS SHUT OUT FROM BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Although having No Score currently, Mary Poppins Returns was thrown into the nomination bowl, after having received mixed social media reactions, the film was nominated for Best Musical or Comedy, Best Actress in Musical or Comedy (Emily Blunt), and Best Actor (Lin-Manuel Miranda), and Best Original Score, totaling a jumbo four nominations, however, its most relevant and obvious nomination Best Original Song, the Musical was shut out from which is very disappointing.

4. A SWEET, SWEET SURPRISE: ROSAMUND PIKE AND NICOLE KIDMAN NOMINATED FOR BEST ACTRESS

Rosamund Pike, acted in A Private War which scored 89% on rottentomatoes.com scored a surprising nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama, along with another surprising Best Actress nominee Nicole Kidman who acted in Destroyer which scored a solid 82% on rottentomatoes.com before being nominated.

5. A SOUR, SOUR SNUB: SAM ELLIOT SHUT OUT FROM BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

After delivering a somewhat electrifying performance in this year’s new Drama pic A Star is Born which received an impressive 80% sweet on sweetandsourmovies.com, was shut out from the Best Supporting Actor section in the Golden Globes, which was very unfair, although the actor was up against amazing performances from Adam Driver (BlaKkKlansman), Mahershala Ali (Green Book), Timothée Chalamet (Boy Erased), Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) and Sam Rockwell (Vice).

6. A SWEET, SWEET SURPRISE: BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY FOR BEST PICTURE, BEST DRAMA

After receiving an extremely disappointing 55% sour from sweetandsourmovies.com, being praised for an amazing performance by Rami Malek, and fantastic music, but was put down for its terrible directing and shortage of story. Despite that, Rhapsody still landed two nominations for Best Picture, and Best Drama which is similar to last year’s musical disappointment, The Greatest Showman which although scored just 60% sweet/sour, landed several nominations.

7. A SOUR, SOUR SNUB: RYAN GOSLING FAILS TO SHOW IN BEST ACTOR

Acting in this year’s First Man, about Neil Armstrong, and landing a 95% sweet with us, Ryan Gosling, who delivered a truly awesome performance failed to be nominated for Best Actor in a Drama Motion Picture, which is somewhat sad, however going up against Bradley Cooper and John David Washington from A Star is Born and BlaKkKlansman is very tough.

8. A SWEET, SWEET SURPRISE: LUCAS HEDGES NOMINATED FOR BEST ACTOR

Acting as Jared Eamons, the main character in drama pic Boy Erased which received a good 80% on RottenTomatoes, before being nominated for Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama, which was very surprising, going up against veteran actors such as Willem Dafoe and Bradley Cooper. And while we are predicting a win for Cooper for Best Actor, it is still impressive that young actors were included.

9. THE FINAL SOUR, SOUR SNUB: MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTTS NOMINATED FOR NOTHING

Starring impressive actresses, Saorise Ronan and Margot Robbie, Mary, Queen of Scotts after receiving a Certified Fresh score of 74% from RottenTomatoes, came home bereft from nominations, losing chances for Best Drama mostly, Black Panther seemed to be the surprise that kicked this historical drama from the list.