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Great Oscar Injustices: The Night the Clown Was Crowned
We have to say "The Academy Award-winning Suicide Squad", and we'll need to explain that to our children one day
Outrage over the Oscars is nothing new, and frequently, the fire and fervour we felt for films overlooked or beat out become dull and performative stories we tell, like lovers whose lustre has long been lost, tediously traipsing through the tale of their meeting without any real feeling.
There is, however, no Oscar oversight to boil the blood more than Suicide Squad beating Star Trek Beyond for Best Hair and Makeup. It is, in the words sung by Suicide Squad soundtrack's own Becky Hanson, a joke that started the whole world crying.
For those fortunate enough to have escaped experiencing the most egregious entry in the experiment that was the DC Extended Universe, David Ayer's Suicide Squad sees the introduction of various villains, both iconic and inconsequential, to the DCEU, all of whom have a coupon to a Hot Topic that's right next to a tattoo parlour — or so one would assume looking at the work of the film's hair and makeup team, led by…
