2011 was a painful year for many of us invested in the Academy Awards. Yes, this was the year that Meryl Streep (undeservedly) won her 3rd Oscar over Viola Davis, the year Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close got a Best Picture nomination, and the year Michael Fassbender's raw, haunting turn in Shame was ignored completely. But among the many heartbreaks listed and unlisted, possibly the biggest heartbreak was the exclusion of Kirsten Dunst's transcendent work in controversial Lars Von Trier's poetic masterpiece Melancholia.
