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Biggest snubs for Best Director?
Posted on 4/26/12 at 11:50 am
Posted on 4/26/12 at 11:50 am
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.
1975 - 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?
1975 - 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 4/26/12 at 11:52 am
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Posted on 4/26/12 at 11:53 am to RollTide1987
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2010 - Christopher Nolan for Inception.
Coudn't agree more. The Coen Brothers REMADE a movie. Nolan brought something actually original to the table that year.
Posted on 4/26/12 at 11:54 am to RollTide1987
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What are your opinions on this?
How much time do you have?
Posted on 4/26/12 at 11:54 am to RollTide1987
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Apollo 13
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.
Posted on 4/26/12 at 12:08 pm to RollTide1987
Akira Kurosawa for Ran losing out to Sydney Pollack for Out of Africa
Scorsese for Raging Bull losing out to Redford for Ordinary People
Scorsese for Raging Bull losing out to Redford for Ordinary People
Posted on 4/26/12 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.
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.
Posted on 4/26/12 at 12:25 pm to Zamoro10
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.
Posted on 4/26/12 at 12:28 pm to constant cough
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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.
Posted on 4/26/12 at 12:31 pm to Superior Pariah
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.
It's all subjective anyway.
This post was edited on 4/26/12 at 12:33 pm
Posted on 4/26/12 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.
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.
Posted on 4/26/12 at 12:34 pm to Zamoro10
Well there you go. It's no different today either the academy awards are won by lobbying and politicking.
Posted on 4/26/12 at 12:36 pm to constant cough
Scorcese - goodfellas
Posted on 4/26/12 at 1:14 pm to RollTide1987
quote:Had no idea about this. Mind = blown.
1995 - Ron Howard for Apollo 13.
quote:Should have won IMO. Great movie, incredible direction.
2010 - Christopher Nolan for Inception.
Posted on 4/26/12 at 1:20 pm to RollTide1987
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
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
Posted on 4/26/12 at 1:26 pm to schexyoung
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Coudn't agree more. The Coen Brothers REMADE a movie. Nolan brought something actually original to the table that year.
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.
Posted on 4/26/12 at 1:26 pm to elprez00
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?
Posted on 4/26/12 at 1:33 pm to Superior Pariah
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If you notice the academy usually don't like to give the best director award for the same movie that wins best picture.
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:
If you notice the academy usually don't like to give the best director award for the same movie that wins best picture.
Really?
Posted on 4/26/12 at 1:36 pm to JaiEugenesTowel
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The Departed
Wasn't even his best film, IMO.
Posted on 4/26/12 at 1:39 pm to RollTide1987
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Really?
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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.
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