All you can ever really do after a major awards snub is ask "what the hell happened?" and try to move on. When this year's Oscar nominations for Best Actor were announced, the lack of a Jake Gyllenhaal had many rubbing their eyes and double-checking whether the name 'Bradley Cooper' had just gotten on there by mistake. The biggest Best Actor Oscar omission of 2015, however - even bigger than the Gyllenhaal/Nightcrawler neglect - didn't even seem possible. David Oyelowo was not nominated for playing Martin Luther King, one of the greatest men of the 20th century, in an acclaimed, ultra-current biopic about his life. Not getting by just on playing a real-life historical figure alone, unlike some (*cough* Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game *cough*), Oyelowo went fully method for Selma, and the result is astonishing: Oyelowo speaks, moves and appears to think like MLK. It seems so unlikely that anyone else will interpret the man better, even Steven Spielberg has asked Oyelowo if he'll play King again for him.
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