Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" has been polarizing audiences who have seen the movie in advance of its Christmas theatrical opening.

'Wolf of Wall Street' at the academy: What really happened - latimes.com

As we've exhaustively reported, the motion picture academy is on the older side. The average age of eligible Oscar voters is now 63. And as much as we'd like to picture these people as open-minded and artistically adventurous, reality just keeps slapping us in the face. To put it another way: We want to picture academy members as being like this guy when, in some cases, they're more like him.