Nic Cage winning Best Actor for Leaving Las Vegas over Sean Penn in Dead Man Walking.
Renee Zelwegger, Nicole Kidman, Penelope Cruz, Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry, Gwyneth Paltrow, among others, should have their Oscars revoked.
I actually agree with Crash as Best Picture. I was pleasantly surprised with its win.
I agree Burstyn was great in that role, but it was really more of a supporting role, IMO. Of course, it’s not her fault if she got nominated in the wrong category.
Also, don’t forget that Burstyn won before for Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore in 1974 whereas Roberts hadn’t at the time. Regardless of how good the comparative performances are, Oscar voters often use this as a reason to give someone the award over another.
I am still bitter about this. I didn’t like Forrest Gump then, and I don’t like it now and there is nothing anyone can say that will convince me it’s the better movie over not only Pulp Fiction, but Shawshank Redemption. :mad:
While I love Pulp Fiction, I can understand because of the violence it may not have a complete broad base appeal. Shawshank Redemption on the other hand was hands down the best picture that year - brilliant movie. It’s on my list of movies that I can’t help but finish watching if I stumble past it while channel surfing.
That may be a factor, but it doesn’t always happen or Peter O’Toole would have won at least once by now.
IMHO, Forrest Gump was five times the movie The Shawshank Redemption is. I honestly cannot fathom why anyone would think otherwise.
It’d be interesting to see if we could come up with any Oscar snubs we all actually agree on. I doubt it.
Shakespeare in Love winning over Saving Private Ryan.
That was kind of what I came here to talk about; I think Heath Ledger not winning a Best Actor award for his portrayal of Ennis DelMar in “Brokeback Mountain” was a massive outrage. A part of me thinks that his winning the Best Supporting Actor Oscar was in part to make up for this.
I do have to say, though, I haven’t seen “Capote” (with Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won the Best Actor Oscar that year); I do know that it would have to be a hell of a performance to beat Ledger’s.
Hoop Dreams not nominated for best documentary. They should have launched an investigation of the entire branch of the academy.
Quiz: Which of the following 1995 films received a Best Picture nomination:
Heat, Se7en, The Usual Suspects, Casino, 12 Monkeys, Babe.
Answer:
Babe. What the fuck?
Reminds me of another one:
Paris Is Burning not being nominated for Best Documentary.
I was doing some research unrelated to this thread earlier today and discovered that Norbit was nominated for an Oscar.
And that The Bourne Ultimatum won three Oscars. Don’t get me wrong, I like the Bourne trilogy just fine, but … three Oscars? No, I wouldn’t have thought so.
The fact that Barbara Stanwyck never won an Oscar.
Gloria Swanson should have won Best Actress Oscar for 1950. And this coming from someone who likes Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday.
Monsters Inc. is a much better movie in every respect than Shrek.
Hell, if you start talking about documentaries we might as well ask if the Academy has ever given out an Oscar to the right choice. Same thing with the foreign language nominees, although that’s not entirely their fault.
A perfectly deserving choice. It was a terrific movie, much better than at least three of your named choices, which were fine films but severely flawed in one way or another.
If you’re going to bump a 1995 movie I’d bump “Il Postino,” but that’s just me. It was a good year for movies.
Stupidest Best Picture mix-up ever.
Huge error.
Babe a better movie than Heat? Usual Suspects? 12 Monkeys?
Are you serious?
Some personl axes to grind. Most of the time, I don’t think the winners were undeserving, just not as deserving as some of the other nominees.
Children of Men not getting nominated for Best Picture in 2007.
Sean Penn winning Best Actor over Mickey Rourke in 2009
Leonardo Di Caprio never winning an acting Oscar.
Peter Jackson not getting nominated for Best Director for King Kong in 2006.
Philip Seymour Hoffman winning over Joaquin Phoenix for Best Actor in 2006.
Syriana not getting more nominations in 2006.
Paul Giamatti not being nominated for Sideways in 2005.
Closer, Collateral, Before Sunset, and Eternal Sunshine NOT getting Best Picture nominations over Finding Neverland in 2005.
Sean Penn winning Best Actor over Bill Murray in 2004.
Russell Crowe not getting nominated for Best Actor for Master and Commander from 2004.
Chicago winning Best Picture over LOTR: TTT, The Pianist, Road to Perdition, and Adaptation in 2003.
Just some from the past 8-ish years.
Well deserved nomination.
I’m surprised no one’s mentioned Dancing With Wolves beating Goodfellas for Best Picture.
Yes, Dances With Wolves was quite good but Goodfellas was one of the best movies ever made.