Because withThe Big Short, he’s graduated from wiseass to wise man.
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Best line:“We live in an era of fraud in America.
Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food, even baseball.
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What bothers me isn’t that fraud is not nice, or that fraud is mean.
It’s that for 15,000 years, fraud and short-sighted thinking have never, ever worked.
Eventually people get caught, things go south.
When the hell did we forget all that?
I thought we were better than this, I really did.”
Mark Baum (Carell)
Number of Oscar nods:Five, tying withSpotlightandStar Wars: The Force Awakens.
Lewis' two previous books adapted to the screen,The Blind SideandMoneyball, also garnered Best Picture nominations.
Vegas odds:6/1, according to Paddy Power, making it the third favorite in the race.
