Michael Fassbender's Penis Caused Oscar Snub?

Lost in all the hysterics over Albert Brooks's unbelievable snub by the Academy Awards on Tuesday morning was the fact that Michael Fassbender got dinged too! After all, the breakout leading man -- who appeared in four movies in 2011, including "X-Men: First Class," "Jane Eyre" and "A Dangerous Method" -- was expected to earn Oscar plaudits for his bracing work in "Shame," the sex addiction drama from Steve McQueen. Why was Fassbender left off the list, despite a performance that was well-loved by everyone and featured the type of risks (full-frontal nudity) that usually point to Oscar gold? Well, he might have been a victim of his own endowment.

"He's a guy who's unfamiliar to a lot of people and did a movie that's really intimate," an unnamed Academy member told the Los Angeles Times gossip blog, The Ministry. "That was a super-brave performance but ... perhaps it inspired people to fantasize, and not actually vote."

To that end, it seems that all the attention recently focused on Fassbender's Fassmember was a detriment to his campaign.

"Really Michael, honestly, you can play golf like this with your hands behind your back," George Clooney joked about the star's anatomy during his acceptance speech at the Golden Globes earlier this month. Probably not true, George! But it's a trick Fassbender can try to perfect while you're winning Best Actor during the Academy Awards ceremony on Feb. 26.

[via LAT/Ministry of Gossip]

Comments

[splenetic]

06:39 PM on 02/07/2012

What's the big deal? Or, is that the big deal?

[savvysearch]

04:09 AM on 01/28/2012

"That was a super-brave performance but ... perhaps it inspired people to fantasize, and not actually vote."

That quote makes no sense at all. I guess Fassbender is so hot that people forgot to vote. Idiot.

[Alessan]

06:25 AM on 01/27/2012

Maybe George Cooney knew how snobby Oscar voters can be and decided to mention Michael's body.(jealous). Even though it was making a joke at Michael's expense. Michael Fassbender is a better actor than both George Clooney and Brad Pitt and a trained actor. George and Brad are very goodlooking have had luck to star in many of the movies they were in. Both George and Brad are eye candy mostly. Michael Fassbender has class, and yes, there were other movies to show his talents like Jane Eyre and X Men. The Golden Globes shouldn't have given the Globe to Clooney, it is the foreign press. Michael I don;t is American. Leonardo DiCaprio got snubbed also. The biggest mistake was the nomination of a silent movie and the actor in it.l "The Artist. Maybe next time Michael is in a good movie members of the Academy will think twice and not play favorites and look for real talent. I was looking forward to seeing Fassbender at the Oscars, too bad.

[Wookiee1972]

10:24 PM on 01/26/2012

There's deifinitely a double standard here. Halle Berry won for Monster's Ball, and she had a rather memorable naked scene.

[libwithaclue]

05:33 PM on 01/26/2012

The strongest Best Actor/Actress performances I saw in 2011 were Michael Fassbender in "Shame" and Elizabeth Olsen in "Marcy, May, Marlene". Both were mesmerizing, brave and haunting. Both were snubbed. Hollywood is becoming really boring, trite and predictable.

[eskeeemo]

01:31 PM on 01/26/2012

How stupid, if this is true.

[VoteOrDie]

01:15 PM on 01/26/2012

Damn I hadn't heard of this movie, but will looking for it now...comic book nerd love for him as Magneto and full frontal!!

[jjgg5]

12:22 PM on 01/26/2012

He makes George Clooney and Brad Pitt look like yesterday's mashed potatoes.

[AnitaMan]

11:02 PM on 01/26/2012

no gravy needed
thank you

[gemini68]

12:10 PM on 01/26/2012

Which only further proves that the Academy is made up of old prudes.

[Fyona]

01:48 PM on 01/26/2012

True That!