Another 12 years a slave thread...

She won that award before anyone even saw the movie

I don't even know who Lupita is, and the only really memorable performance in the movie was the actor who played Solomon Northup, as well as the first slave owner whose moral ambivalence struck a cord.

The film was without question the best film made in the last two years. Definitely deserving of the best picture.

I thought it was an amazing film. I thought everyone did an stellar job acting, and I feel Lupita and the other cast members gave us a very small, intimate, and un-sensationalized story. Much as it pains me to say it, my boy Benedict Cumberbatch was probably the weakest performance IMO. The success of the film was how understated and everday things appeared, no grand flailing(no pun intended) of the actors or overwrought sentimentalism from the director.

So who gets the award? Who would you give it to? I see controversy if this was best actress but this was best supporting actress. Also I am sure she had more screen time than Anthony Hopkins did in Silence of the Lambs.