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Top 5 Academy Award Mistakes/Snubs/WTF's As a tribute to next Sunday, name some your favorite Oscar blunders over the years. I'll start:
1. Denzel Washington not being awarded Best Actor for "Malcolm X." I thought Al Pacino was terrific in "Scent of A Woman" but Washington's performance was nothing short of extraordinary.
2. Quentin Tarantino not being awarded Best Director for "Pulp Fiction." Really? Come on.
3. "The Color Purple" walking away with nothing out of 11 nominations.
4. "Song of the Heart" being snubbed from a Best Original Song nomination.
5. "The Departed" winning Best Picture. Just no. | |
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In no particular order:
That the brilliant Julianne Moore has never won an Oscar, even after being nominated twice in the same year (Best Actresss and Best Supporting Actress)
That the equally brilliant Jennifer Jason Leigh has only been nominated once
It took Jeff Bridges up until last year to win an Academy Award after an outstanding, decades-long career
Farrah Fawcett being overlooked in the In-Memoriam portion of the show last year
Ryan Gosling has never been nominated
(there are many more, but these are just the ones that instantly came to me)
[Edited 2/21/11 4:57am] "Get up off that grey line" | |
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I just realized I posted this in the wrong section. Is that a big deal mods? | |
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Academy Awards are the equivalent to the grammys to me. Whether they embrace a film or not is no concern of mine.
Chameleon Street is one of thee BEST films ever made, but its one of those movies that you'll never see a remote mention of in a million years among that crowd. I would've been happy if it got the recognition, but I don't think it will make a significant difference to me.
I just think its wise to look at the Academy Awards as just another form of entertainment, in a stiff, stick up the ass kind of way. | |
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who gives a fuck?
George C. Scott all the way  | |
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Ryan Gosling was nominated for Half Nelson.
One of his best performances was in The Believer, I think.
I love Ryan Gosling. He seems like such a nice guy. | |
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Diana Ross not getting the Best Actress award for "Lady Sings the Blues" Just like the white winged dove... |
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Oh, okay, I didn't know that. He really is a brilliant actor. "Get up off that grey line" | |
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Agree with Harle thoughts about the Oscar and the Grammy's, though it took me awhile to see in-terms of politics they are one and the same. I've always considered the Grammy's to be a joke.
That being said . . .
Paula Paul Newman got the Oscar for the wrong movie (Color Of Money), we've screwed you for so many years will give you one now. I don't blame him for not showing up to recieve it.
Glenn Close should've taken home an Oscar for Fatal Attraction, not Kat Hepburn for Old Golden Pond.
"Traffic was robbed of Best Picture, how won? Gladiator?
The self-importance of ignoring comedies in general.
The kid how played The Six Sense was robbed.
For all intense purposes since 1997, I stop going to the "show". If it comes on cable fine if it doesn't that's fine but it's hard to get me out of my home to see a movie.
========= nope paula newman never won an Oscar.
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I agree. Also, Linda Blair losing the award to Tatum O'Neal. Granted, it wasn't really Linda's speaking voice when she was possessed in "The Exorcist", but it was a powerful performance nonetheless. "Get up off that grey line" | |
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AMEN!!! | |
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Or Sally Menke (his twice-nominated longtime editor, who recently passed away | |
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) not winning for Best Editing.I think not nominating Song of the Heart was one of their good decisions...
But that piece of crap Crash beating Brokeback Mountain was definitely a Top 5 WTF. | |
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Amen to that. Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ πρὸς ὀλίγον ἐστὶ τὸ ζῆν τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ.” | |
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I assume you mean that Glenn should have won instead of Katharine, but they were nominated in separate years (Fatal Attraction - 1987, On Golden Pond - 1981). | |
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That's what she looks like in the limo on the ride home. | |
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Bless me Cher for I'm about to sin.
Cher winning best actress for Moonstruck when Glenn Close for Fatal Attraction and Angelica MF Houston (my personal choice that year) for The Grifters were her competition.
I will now go say twelve Gypsies Tramps and Thieves and hope nothing awful happens to me today. [Edited 2/21/11 9:04am] | |
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Morgan Freeman should've won Best Actor for The Shawshank Redemption. I like Tom Hanks, but that movie (TSR) and those acting performances were stellar.
*You know what I meant... [Edited 2/21/11 9:15am] | |
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I love Glenn Close, especially now on Damages. She's like 87, 88 years old now and she looks fabulous and she rocks that show. But anyway, she was good, really good, in Fatal Attraction, but I don't think she deserved an Oscar for it.
You may have a point with Anjelica Huston, though. She was pretty damn good in The Grifters. But are you sure that was the year she was up for the award for that? I thought that movie came out later.
Edit: I think you're thinking of Pritzi's Honor?
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I missed some words, VC. | |
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I was thinking of Grifters (one of my all time favorite movies) but you're right, she wasnt in it that year: Actress:
Grifters was 90 Actress:
And shit, I can't take it from Bates. She was brilliant.
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LMAO! "Get up off that grey line" | |
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Grace Kelly winning against Judy Garland especially when all the cameras were at Judy's hospital bed after she gave birth to her son. | |
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Giving the Oscar to bland ass Grace Kelly should've been a clue about how bogus that ceremony is - and it has been what? 57 years?
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This was my first thought when reading the thread title. Did the Academy really not want a gay movie to win best picture that badly? | |
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Yeah, I never got Kelly's appeal. Yes, she was attractive but her acting chops, | |
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Just one more digg at Ms. Garland, shame.
Dottie put her foot ever so firmly too, but realistically speaking, she would NEVER walk out of there with the "best actress" title". | |
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+1
Not that I think that Brokeback was a spectacular movie , but Crash was H.O.R.R.I.D. I can't believe it was even nominated. never mind won.
Ever since Titanic won best picture I've never looked at the Academy Awards the same way again.
For whatever reason, I started to think of the Golden Golbes as the real Academy Awards, and then Dances with Smurfs, I mean Avatar won best picture......
I don't want to say the whole thing is a joke as there is still some merit to the process, but for the most part it's gotten out of hand now. | |
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