(Yahoo) - Director James Wan agreed that “See You Again” was snubbed by the Academy, but he took larger issue with the film being left out of the Best Visual Effects category, particularly for what VFX house Weta Digital was able to accomplish in seamlessly keeping Walker’s character Brian O'Connor “alive” until the film’s poignant end.

“I thought we were guaranteed to get a nomination,” Wan told Yahoo Movies while appearing at CinemaCon in Las Vegas to promote his new horror sequel, The Conjuring 2. “One was for the song, and the other one was for the visual effects. Furious 7 would not have been able to be completed if it wasn’t for the amazing team that got behind it and finished all the visual effects.

"There were all these other great movies, but the movies that were nominated, I’ve seen all that stuff before. But we have never seen a movie where we took someone who was no longer around and kept him alive. Literally. So that was one that I felt cheated on.”

The Best Visual Effects nominations instead went to Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenant, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and eventual winner Ex Machina.

“We had to complete a performance — what Paul Walker would have done if he’d been able to continue,” Weta’s Joe Letteri explained. “And it had to be his performance.”

Couple of thoughts here. First, hats off for maybe the single greatest click bait headline ever. I saw it and dropped everything I was doing to click on the story.

Second, I find myself nodding in agreement with James here. I mean he's spot on. Did Mad Max complete a movie with a dead guy? Uh, no, no it did not. What about The Martian? See previous. Star Wars had Harrison Ford try to die in a plane crash, but he still managed to see the film through to the end. Ex Machina had a character that looked half alive, but a fully-alive actor.

Which brings us to The Revenant. Though it did make me want to die, the movie was lame with using dead guys as actors. However, we did learn an important lesson - if you play dead and learn to grimace while crawling in mud, people would call that brilliant acting. They will not only give you the sought-after Oscar nod, but also they will give you the statue too.

While some people may try to throw some shade at my boy PDubs and say, "What does it say about your acting that some software and your brothers with motion capture sensors can deliver an identical performance to what you 'worked' to give?", I'm not here to speak ill of the dead. In fact, I would counter and say that was part of his charm. Never once did he deliver some diatribe about how important acting and film is to social awareness. Rather he was completely aware of the fact that we watched his work and said, "I could do that if I looked like him,". Well guess what? We don't look like him, and that in and of itself was his gift. He knew those cheek bones and baby blues would never leave his dick dry again and never took that for granted.

RIP, O'Connor. You are missed, but your art lives on forever. Ride or Die.