Well other than the fact it's up against Frank Langella as Nixon and Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, I don't think that appearing at WM is the killer of his chances. I think the fact that those two are portraying figures who the "Hollywood Elite" like to villify and glorify, respectively those are indeed the chance killer. This isn't like the situation from 2006 where Eddie Murphy was a lock for "Dreamgirls" and due to the release/negative buzz whathaveyou on "Norbit" tossed the Oscar into Alan Arkin's lap for "Little Miss Sunshine" (which was a good performance, but not as demanding as Eddie's). He was in a movie about wrestling and he's appearing at a wrestling event and he's Mickey Fucking Rourke, so many in Hollywood probably see it for what it is. Do I think that the situation cheapens the movie? No, I think it gives it some great exposure to a wider audience and will generate some better than average DVD sales, that said with both WWE's recent shift towards a younger demo and Vince's supposed hate of the film until the overall buzz got too large puts the WWE in a really bad position in marketing to a demographic that can't actually go see the movie and that they need to glom onto something when it becomes too large in order to generate ratings/buyrate.