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| Biggest snubs for Best Director? Posted by RollTide1987 There have been some pretty big snubs over the years in the category of Best Director. Meaning, directors who weren't nominated in the category who should have been nominated. I can think of three directors off the top of my head.  on 4/26 at 11:50 am1975 - Steven Spielberg for Jaws. To this day I think this is the greatest snub in Academy history. How do you not give this guy a nomination for Best Director when he shot an entire movie out at sea - one of the toughest things to do in film. Not only did he pull it off, the end product is about as close to perfection as a director can get. 1995 - Ron Howard for Apollo 13. You have a film nominated for 9 Academy Awards and, at one point, is a favorite to win Best Picture and you don't give a nomination to the man who made it all happen? WTF?! He shot most of the movie's spacecraft scenes inside an airborne KC-135 to simulate the effect of weightlessness on the actors. Once again...it was a near perfect end product. 2010 - Christopher Nolan for Inception. Love the guy or hate him, you have to admit that he deserved a nomination that year for his work. The Coen Brothers sure as hell didn't earn their Best Director nomination for True Grit and I will have words for any man on here who says otherwise. Nolan's use of practical effects and the way he filmed the weightless fight scene should have gotten him the nomination alone. But alas, the man was snubbed in favor of two directors who remade a John Wayne movie. I love the Coen Brothers but they shouldn't have gotten nominated over Nolan that year. What are your opinions on this? This post was edited on 4/26 at 11:52 am Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Coudn't agree more. The Coen Brothers REMADE a movie. Nolan brought something actually original to the table that year. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: How much time do you have? Reply • Back to Top |
Posted by Zamoro10 on 4/26 at 11:54 am to RollTide1987 quote: Don't think this was a snub. Doesn't feel like a Best Director movie - maybe others like it more...but the majority of the film is close up shots of dudes in a flying can. Reply • Back to Top |
| Akira Kurosawa for Ran losing out to Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa Scorsese for Raging Bull losing out to Redford for Ordinary People Reply • Back to Top |
quote: A tin can that was flying around at 10,000 - 15,000 feet up in the air while being filmed. LINK Reply • Back to Top |
Posted by Zamoro10 on 4/26 at 12:20 pm to RollTide1987 Orson Welles re-inventing the art and losing out in 1941. Biggest snub// Just shows how political it is. If he couldn't win Best Director then the award sort of meant nothing from then on. Studio politics and certain producers get all their films nominated. Reply • Back to Top |
| Citizen Kane won best picture that year though. If you notice the academy usually don't like to give the best director award for the same movie that wins best picture. Reply • Back to Top |
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| What didn't it win that year? I don't know I don't really follow it that closely since I don't care about the academy. It's all subjective anyway. This post was edited on 4/26 at 12:33 pm Reply • Back to Top |
Posted by Zamoro10 on 4/26 at 12:32 pm to constant cough Citizen Kane was nominated for 9 Awards and won 1 - and it wasn't Best Picture. It was apparently booed every time its name was called. Hearst had his Hollywood minions - it was so shamelessly political and they tried to bury the film. Reply • Back to Top |
| Well there you go. It's no different today either the academy awards are won by lobbying and politicking. Reply • Back to Top |
| Scorcese - goodfellas Reply • Back to Top |
quote:Had no idea about this. Mind = blown. quote:Should have won IMO. Great movie, incredible direction. Reply • Back to Top |
| Agree on all three. I dont feel too sorry for Spielberg, though. The Academy has more than made up for it. I really feel bad for Christopher Nolan. Inception was a great movie. I think not getting the nomination for Dark Knight was a snub as well. Superheroes or not, that's a damn fine movie, and included one of the most disturbingly awesome performances by an actor I have every seen. Nolan helped turn  into  Reply • Back to Top |
quote: They made a movie based off of a book that already had a movie based off of it  No joke though, they had no ties to The Dukes version, they did their interpretation on the book. Either way I agree about Nolan, just wanted to defend them a little. I'd have to wait till I get to a computer to give an answer, I got a bad memory so this question doesn't really cater to me like beyonce. Reply • Back to Top |
| Spielberg for Jaws is probably the greatest frick up the Academy has ever done (Next to Shakespeare in Love beating Saving Private Ryan) And lets face it Scorcese got fricked all the way until he won for The Departed. Hell look at the movies that beat his classics, Ordinary People over Raging Bull? Dances with Wolves over Goodfellas? Reply • Back to Top |
quote: 1990 Best Director: Dances with Wolves Best Picture: Dances with Wolves 1991 Best Director: The Silence of the Lambs Best Picture: The Silence of the Lambs 1992 Best Director: Unforgiven Best Picture: Unforgiven 1993 Best Director: Schindler's List Best Picture: Schindler's List 1994 Best Director: Forrest Gump Best Picture: Forrest Gump 1995 Best Director: Braveheart Best Picture: Braveheart 1996 Best Director: The English Patient Best Picture: The English Patient 1997 Best Director: Titanic Best Picture: Titanic 1998 Best Director: Saving Private Ryan Best Picture: Shakespeare in Love 1999 Best Director: American Beauty Best Picture: American Beauty 2000 Best Director: Traffic Best Picture: Gladiator 2001 Best Director: A Beautiful Mind Best Picture: A Beautiful Mind 2002 Best Director: The Pianist Best Picture: Chicago 2003 Best Director: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Best Picture: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2004 Best Director: Million Dollar Baby Best Picture: Million Dollar Baby 2005 Best Director: Brokeback Mountain Best Picture: Crash 2006 Best Director: The Departed Best Picture: The Departed 2007 Best Director: No Country For Old Men Best Picture: No Country For Old Men 2008 Best Director: Slumdog Millionaire Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire 2009 Best Director: The Hurt Locker Best Picture: The Hurt Locker 2010 Best Director: The King's Speech Best Picture: The King's Speech 2011 Best Director: The Artist Best Picture: The Artist quote: Really? Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Wasn't even his best film, IMO. Reply • Back to Top |
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