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re: Biggest screw job for Best Picture Oscar
Posted on 7/8/09 at 1:40 pm to etm512
Posted on 7/8/09 at 1:40 pm to etm512
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they don't show it either because they don't any one will watch
Again, probably a good indication of it not aging well.
if that is the reason and its not because they no one has the rights to show it. I could sit here all and list great movies that are not shown frequently on cable channels and that people don't talk about much.
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Posted on 7/8/09 at 2:23 pm to Kafka
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but Now won in 1979, Jazz in 1980.
That's weird, because they were up for the Oscar the same year...
In any case - I also think Scheider gave the best male performance that year, though Hoffman and Sellers were great too.
Posted on 7/8/09 at 5:15 pm to glaucon
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..just not in a league with SPR...which is STILL the best war movie ever made.
Oh come on. D-Day was awesome but the rest if it does not hold a candle to any of the great Vietnam Films.
Wow...I cannot begin to express the extent to which I believe you are DRAMATICALLY mistake in this matter! Wow!
Posted on 7/8/09 at 5:19 pm to jbs780
Crash
Posted on 7/8/09 at 5:28 pm to shawshank39
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Slumdog Millionare beating out The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
I don't understand how anyone who actually saw both these movies could say this. I saw just about every major film this year - Slumdog, Button, Gran Torino, Changling, and Milk - and the other four came no where near Slumdog.
Posted on 7/8/09 at 5:30 pm to Antonio Moss
What did you like so much about Slumdog?
Posted on 7/8/09 at 5:30 pm to arrakis
Shakespear in Love beating Life is Beautiful
Posted on 7/8/09 at 6:17 pm to arrakis
IMO a good case can be made for Raging Bull over Ordinary People as well as:
A Clockwork Orange over The French Connection
Taxi Driver over Rocky
Apocalypse Now over Kamer vz Kramer
Dangerous Liaisons over Rain Man
Apollo 13 over Braveheart
Fargo over The English Patient
and certainly
Saving Private Ryan over Shakespeare in Love
A Clockwork Orange over The French Connection
Taxi Driver over Rocky
Apocalypse Now over Kamer vz Kramer
Dangerous Liaisons over Rain Man
Apollo 13 over Braveheart
Fargo over The English Patient
and certainly
Saving Private Ryan over Shakespeare in Love
Posted on 7/8/09 at 6:44 pm to arrakis
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Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan
Hands down
Posted on 7/8/09 at 7:40 pm to phatcat
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Fargo over The English Patient
oh, good one, I forgot about that:
add: The Right Stuff over Terms of Endearment
JFK over Silence of the Lambs
The Lion in Winter over Oliver
Posted on 7/8/09 at 11:35 pm to H-Town Tiger
Slumdog blew.
Posted on 7/8/09 at 11:43 pm to H-Town Tiger
Goodfellas losing to Dances with Wolves,
Right Stuff losing to Terms of Endearment.
Right Stuff losing to Terms of Endearment.
Posted on 7/8/09 at 11:47 pm to SerenityNow
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Titanic beating Good Will Hunting. To this day, I still have no idea why that movie is worshipped the way it is- yes the special effects are good, yes the story gets women all wet, but there is absolutely no way it's a better overall movie than Good Will Hunting.
I agree that Titanic shouldn't have gotten the Oscar, but I think L.A. Confidential is the movie that should have.
This post was edited on 7/8/09 at 11:48 pm
Posted on 7/9/09 at 12:34 am to RGCjr01
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
I could never get past the fact he also shrinks as he gets younger. It was just so weird. I did not think it was this spectacular movie. Very overrated IMO.
Posted on 7/9/09 at 12:39 am to lsutiger2486
it was horrible.
Posted on 7/9/09 at 1:28 am to arrakis
When Shakespeare In Love beat Saving Private Ryan.
You can end this thread now.
You can end this thread now.
Posted on 7/9/09 at 6:22 am to arrakis
I think Ordinary People is very good movie worthy of winning. The bigger screw job that resulted though was the nomination and win in the best supporting actor category. The Academy doesn't really have any criteria for determining which category a studio places its nominees, so they can do whatever they want. Clearly Hutton was a main character that should have been in the Best actor category, where in spite of a fine performance he would have lost. It was unfair to the best supporting nominees to have to go against him.
Posted on 7/9/09 at 6:27 am to H-Town Tiger
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OTHO I really liked Shakespeare in Love, at the time I thought it was tough to win over SPR, but to be honest, I'm think SPR isn't aging very well, the beach scene is great, but the rest?
I think you have to be more familiar with Shakespeare and his works than I am to fully appreciate Shakespeare in Love. However, I'm really in the minority because I think Elizabeth was the best overall picture that year.
Posted on 7/9/09 at 6:49 am to Indiana Tiger
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I think Elizabeth was the best overall picture that year.
Gets my vote....thought it was much better.
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