How could happen that Ryan Gosling didn't get a Oscar's nomination?

Agreed. Simply an amazing performance. Very hard to sell a guy like Lars and Gosling was pitch perfect.

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I agree 100%, but the Oscar race is never about the five best performances in any category. So much is decided by timing, name recognition, genre, etc. There was a lot of buzz for Gosling and he was certainly deserving. Sometimes it is your year and sometimes it is not. He was great in Half-Nelson and got a nomination. He was great in Lars and the Real Girl and did not get one. That is the way it goes.

The Academy doesn't know sh-t, that's why. They always leave out stunning actors and movies.

Because you don't get an Oscar for impersonating David Arquette.

If that were the case David Arquette would win every year.

"Now take Berwhale the Avenger, go upstairs and wash your hands for lunch."

I don't mean to take anything away from Gosling's performance. However, I put this movie on and within the first minute (The scene between Lars and Karin) my ears perked up and I thought to myself:

"Hmm, I didn't know Gosling could act...Hmm this is like great old school acting....Huuhh I think he's going for it, I think Gosling is going for one of those once in a lifetime performances."

And then I felt like he lost his momentum for the rest of the time until he got Bianca. The scenes that I felt he lost it were the one at work, when Karen jumps on him in the driveway, and being at church. I just felt like he let us in too much. Almost like he got too normal, too relatable. It lessened the change he undergoes when he got Bianca. However, once the doll showed up, I once again felt him building towards something and found myself thinking again "huh this is great acting."

So to summarize my unintentionally long comment, I felt that Gosling's performance was very very good, but just short of one of those iconic roles. Feel free to disagree or perhaps even attempt to change my mind.

It was a crazy year of good performances for best actor.

Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises, Daniel Day-Lewis in There will be Blood, George Clooney in Micheal Clayton, Johnny Depp in Sweeny Todd.

The only one I can see him getting over was Tommy Lee Jones for The Valley of Elah. But Gosling wouldn't have won. Not against those nominations. And Daniel Day-Lewis took it in a walk because his performance just blew away the other nominees.

He certainly deserved it way more than Depp did.

I am a huge fan of Daniel Day-Lewis' performance but I feel that Ryan Gosling was miles better, it was just a perfect performance in every way, one of the best of all time, he really deserved to win, I honestly can't believe that George Clooney was nominated for his dull and uninteresting performance in Michael Clayton and Ryan Gosling was completely ignored, that has to be one of the worst mistakes the Academy has ever made!!