Films you can't believe weren't nominated for a single Oscar

[eleanorigby]

Can only think of one off the top of my head.

Moonlight Mile -with Dustin Hoffman, Susan Saradon, Jake Hy-something from Broke Back Mountain, and others.

rent it. Watch it–magnificent.

[Liberal]

Dog Day Afternoon

[Dr.Rieux]

Confessions of a Dengerous Mind

[Dr.Rieux]

@Dr. Rieux

Confessions of a Dengerous Mind

…or even a **Dangerous **Mind…
:smack:

[RealityChuck]

@Walloon

Then, as now, nominations were by individual ballot. Editors nominated editors, actors nominated actors, directors nominated directors. Studios were free to “tell” their employees whom to vote for, but the employees were under no obligation to listen. They were private ballots, after all.

Sure the voters were free to ignore the studio, but many were told that if a certain big picture of that studio didn’t get a nomination, there’d be pink slips the next day. Pretty effective threat during the Depression.

[Rufus_Xavier]

Once Upon a Time in the West
The Duellists
The Long Good Friday

[Rufus_Xavier]

@andrewdt85

Fight Club- was it nominated for anything?

Yes, it was nominated for Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing

@andrewdt85

Cast Away- nominated for anything?

Yes, Best Actor and Best Sound

[Rufus_Xavier]

@Liberal

Dog Day Afternoon

Won Best Original Screenplay (Frank Pierson).

Also, nominated for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Best Editing, and Best Picture.

[Rufus_Xavier]

@andrewdt85

Pleasantville- 98. Was this even nominated for anything? It was beautiful, and had some good ideas to it.

Nominated for: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Music - Original Dramatic Score

[RickJay]

@Rufus Xavier

Nominated for: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design, Best Music - Original Dramatic Score

As noted by yours truly in Post #2.

[Walloon]

If you want to know whether or which awards a certain picture was nominated for, look up the movie in the Internet Movie Database. The search field is in the upper left part of the page. Once the movie’s page is on the screen, look on the left side for “Awards & Nominations”.

[andrewdt85]

@RickJay

As noted by yours truly in Post #2.

Rick Jay, I salute you for being able to not blow up when people don’t read your posts.

[Malodorous]

@Sage Rat

Other foreign films made it in during the same time frame. No idea whether that’s Japan being cheap or the US not liking adult animation, but it still goes that those movies would have been able to win out over something in some category.

The foreign films that were nominated were shown in LA during that year, so they qualified despite not being American films in any other sense.

Moot point though, since Wallon pointed out that I was mistaken, and the anime films mentioned were in fact shown in theaters in LA.

Worth noting that the Animated Film award has only existed since 2001 so the older animes wouldn’t have had a chance to win it. And animation doesn’t really fit some of the other categories (best actor, special effects, costuming, etc.) so an animated film would have a disadvantage in many categories even if they technically qualified.

I predict that an adult animated film will win in the next couple years. I imagine Princess Mononoke would’ve at least been nominated if the award had existed in '97

[Liberal]

@Rufus Xavier

Won Best Original Screenplay (Frank Pierson).

Also, nominated for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Best Editing, and Best Picture.

Well. No wonder I couldn’t believe it!

[SentientMeat]

Clerks?

I know it won something at Cannes, but had no Oscar noms IIRC.

[andrewdt85]

@SentientMeat

Clerks?

I know it won something at Cannes, but had no Oscar noms IIRC.

Best Film By Someone Who Will Later Make Only Bad Films

(except Dogma)

[Necros]

@andrewdt85

Battle Royale- Best Foreign Film? Okay, maybe that’s pushing it- but the film is great.

You, sir, are clearly insane. The movie was just Not Good.