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An Oscars voter has revealed what they really think about some of the Academy Award nominees

ONE of the Academy members who gets to cast a vote for the winners has slammed Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Gravity and other nominees.

Oscars 2014: Movies the Academy Missed

JUST days out from the Oscars, one of the Academy members who gets to cast a vote for the winners has revealed what he/she really thinks of this year’s nominees.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, the “long-time member of the Academy’s 377-member director’s branch,” had some scathing comments about Gravity, Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep, just to name a few.

Here are some of the harshest comments:

Captain Phillips: “Struck me as a slightly hokey, overacted, not particularly gripping action movie.”

Tom Hanks in "Captain Phillips." (AP Photo/Sony - Columbia Pictures)
Tom Hanks in "Captain Phillips." (AP Photo/Sony - Columbia Pictures)

12 Years a Slave: “Contrary to what some have asserted, it’s not as if it required great courage to make that movie — maybe if you made it in Mississippi in 1930.”

Chiwetel Ejiofor in a scene from "12 Years A Slave." (AP Photo/Fox Searchlight Films, Jaap Buitendijk, file)
Chiwetel Ejiofor in a scene from "12 Years A Slave." (AP Photo/Fox Searchlight Films, Jaap Buitendijk, file)

Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity director): “Cuaron was part of a committee of technicians who made that movie, and I have seen things at the planetarium that were at least as impressive.”

Sandra Bullock in a scene from "Gravity." (AP Photo/Warner Bros Pictures, File)
Sandra Bullock in a scene from "Gravity." (AP Photo/Warner Bros Pictures, File)

Leonardo DiCaprio (nominated for Wolf of Wall Street): “DiCaprio has been better; this is a popcorn performance.”

Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort in a scene from "The Wolf of Wall Street." (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures and Red Granite Pictures, Mary Cybulsk, filed)
Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort in a scene from "The Wolf of Wall Street." (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures and Red Granite Pictures, Mary Cybulsk, filed)

Meryl Streep (nominated for August: Osage County): “For Streep, whom I love, this is a bottom-drawer performance.”

Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts in “August: Osage County”.
Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts in “August: Osage County”.

Julia Roberts (nominated for August: Osage County): “Julia Roberts was horrendous.”

Ouch.

Jared Leto (nominated for Dallas Buyers Club): “He’s getting tremendous points because of the person he’s playing more than the way he played it, which is as close to pandering as you can get.”

Jared Leto as Rayon in a scene from "Dallas Buyers Club." The film has six Oscar nominations, including best picture. (AP Photo/Focus Features, Anne Marie Fox, File)
Jared Leto as Rayon in a scene from "Dallas Buyers Club." The film has six Oscar nominations, including best picture. (AP Photo/Focus Features, Anne Marie Fox, File)

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