This year’s Oscar nominees were announced yesterday. A little while later I read a headline that read – ‘Oscar Snubs: Martin Scorsese, ‘Sully’ & Taraji P. Henson Get No Academy Love’. And they weren’t the only ones snubbed. Not at all. A quick search found several articles about who got snubbed this year.

There’s no need for me to recount all the people who got snubbed this year because none of them were. Not a single one of them was snubbed.

The Academy Awards work by having its members complete a ballot on who should be nominated. Which means that those who were announced as nominated received the most votes in their particular category.

Saying that anyone who wasn’t nominated was snubbed is a complete falsehood. They just didn’t get enough votes to be nominated.

Snubbing is a deliberate act of choosing to ignore someone. Not something that happens incidentally because someone else was more successful. The Academy voters just didn’t think of the person when voting. Maybe because they hadn’t watched the particular movie or maybe because someone else impressed them more.

There are enough articles that can be written from the facts. No need for ‘alt-facts’. There’s enough of those already.