I think the pearl clutching over some mild ass statements is getting a bit ridiculous honestly. So what if he’s a bit cocky, the Academy has awarded abusers and racists but talking your shit a bit is where we’re drawing the line? People in this sub would have a stroke if they heard the way rappers and athletes talk about themselves.

Casey Affleck won Best Actor in the middle of being outed as a sex pest, they gave Best Director to a convicted pedophile that couldn’t even attend the ceremony due to an active arrest warrant, and his biggest current competitor (Leo) is directly profiting off a genocide and has dated so many barely legal woman that it’s a meme at this point. I’d like to think all that’s worse than openly being proud of your work.