If you could take away an oscar from anyone who has won one, whose would it be and why?
Frances McDormand: FARGO- I just didn’t think she earned it.
F. Murray Abraham- AMADEUS- all he did was imitate Ray Walston.
Judi Dench- SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE- I like her, I liked the movie, but she was only on screen for 8 minutes and really didn’t do anything to warrant winning
Marlon Brando/George C. Scott- they didn’t want them anyway
Jessica Lange- BLUE SKY- the woman couldn’t act dead if she was run over by a buffalo herd
THE ENGLISH PATIENT- I just didn’t really “feel” this picture
Russel Crowe. That guy’s ego doesn’t need any more awards.
You’re so high. She should’ve gotten two.
My vote is for Halle Berry, if only to save us all from seeing her acceptance “speech.”
And I don’t have anything personal against the Topsy Turvy/Moulin Rouge guy, but I think his should’ve gone to the Gandalf/Magneto guy.
And his performance in GLADIATOR was just “okay”. (It wasn’t an Oscar caliber role no matter who played it; Oliver Reed was more deserving.)
Take the oscar for the Best Picture of 1977 away from Annie Hall.
That way, it can go to Star Wars, which was the movie that should’ve gotten it all along.
Easily ‘The English Patient’.
Well aside from the Best Picture fiascos of recent years:
Titanic over
As Good as it Gets
Good Will Hunting
L.A. Confidential
and Forrest Gump (ugh) over
4 Weddings and a Funeral
Pulp Fiction
Quiz Show
Shawshank Redemption
…it has to be…
Roberto Bug-me-me getting to clown around like the no-talent clown he appears to be while both Ian McKellen (sp?) for Gods and Monsters and Edward Norton for American History X being left to applaud politely in the audience. I have to say that still bugs me.
Yes… let’s give all the Oscars™ to crap movies.
While we’re at it, let’s only recognize directors for lifetime achievement awards if they really pack 'em in the theaters.
:rolleyes:
No one, NO ONE, not in a million gazillion years, can justify giving the 1940 Best Actress Oscar to Ginger Rogers for KITTY FOYLE.
Don’t misunderstand me; I ADORE Ginger, and her performance in that film is admirable . . . but that doesn’t change the fact that KITTY FOYLE is a shallow, soapy piece of third-rate melodrama.
And to think that she beat out Joan Fontaine in REBECCA and Katharine Hepburn in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY! Take the Oscar from Ginger and let Joan and Kate fight for it.
Nothing rivals the outrage I felt 1990 when some obscure Swiss movie got picked over Cyrano de Bergerac mostly because of a scandal that had erupted over Gérard Depardieu.
Mind you, this was the year when I had to watch Kevin Costner accept for Dances with Wolves…
I see your :rolleyes: and raise you a :wally
Annie Hall is one of my favorite movies, but Star Wars was, literally, a phenomenon. It was an epic presentation that combined the best of every aspect of filmmaking, except possibly for acting. And even though it wasn’t clear at a time just how huge it would turn out to be, it was plain to see that the movie was a Big Deal.
Annie Hall was a very well-done romantic comedy, and that’s it. And it was no Grand Work of Art, no matter what your lowbrow vs. highbrow comment at the end is supposed to suggest. Please.
Sol - I wasn’t really aware at the time, since I was a toddler, but from what I’ve read. Star Wars had most of the critics ho-humming. It would appear that the mediocre to atrocious acting that was in the movie really swayed a lot of critics away from the decent but not outstanding special effects.
It wasn’t a Big Deal until folks noticed that people were still going, in droves, long after it should have faded away.
I rewatched the original trilogy a few weeks ago after not seeing ot since the special editions were in the theatres. I watched it cause I was feeling a bit sad at how bored I am with the prequels and wanted to see how much truth there was in the fanboy cry that “the acting and dialogue has always been bad! cut it some slack!”
They hold up really well! The acting is good, the dialogue is funny, occasionally witty, Harrison Ford is really, really good. Moreso in Empire than in Star Wars, but all 3 are much better films than people nowadays seem to give them credit for. And I’m not just comparing them to the prequels, for me they stand up really well as movies on their own.
Unfortunately the special effects have really aged for me. I can see all the matte lines where the space ships are. 
Lord Vader, the rebels have hijacked the thread!!!
Yeah, sorry about that :). Back to the Oscar bashing!
I’d take it away from Russel Crowe for Gladiator, and give it back to him for A Beautiful Mind.
I have no hard and fast feelings for Mr. Crowe as an actor. I just thought his performance in Gladiator was good, but not spectacular. On the other hand, I thought his performance in A Beautiful Mind was phenomenal.
I’d also take the Oscar away from Helen Hunt for As Good As It Gets.
I do have hard and fast feelings about Ms. Hunt. I think her acting ability is … well it sucks. She has the range of a Daisy air rifle. I’ve only ever seen her do about … one emotion, and one character … just different lines.
I’d also take the statuette away from Gordon Wiles for his art direction of Transatlantic in 1931, just because I really felt like being obscure.
Surely you missed her stunning performance in “Quarterback Princess”! And what about that after-school special where she played the girl who jumped out of the window after trying PCP?
Star Wars was a hit from day 1, with Walter Cronkite doing a story about the lines that were going around the block for this new movie. It was also very favorably critically received, with most critics overlooking the films scripting and acting flaws in favor of the spectacle.
Me? I’d take the 1982 BP Oscar away from Ghandi and give it to ET.
I’d take away all of them, and give them to Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin, Stanley Kubrick, Howard Hawks, Robert Altman, Martin Scorcese, Ernst Lubitch, Fritz Lang, Richard Burton, Fred Astaire, Joseph Cotten, Albert Finney, Cary Grant, Robert Mitchum, Peter O’Toole, William Powell, Ralph Richardson, Peter Sellers, Lauren Bacall, Glenn Close, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Lillian Gish, Deborah Kerr, Angela Lansbury, Agnes Moorhead, Rosalind Russell, Gloria Swanson, and all the other extraordinarly talented people who never won a thing.