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re: The greatest Oscar snub of all-time
Posted on 3/20/25 at 10:35 am to CocomoLSU
Posted on 3/20/25 at 10:35 am to CocomoLSU
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Jack is an actor named Chris Conrad. Ray is an actor named Burgess Jenk
i think they were the same dude in my mind as well, but i guess it makes sense that they arent - the movies are like a decade apart and the villain dude is the same age
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Posted on 3/20/25 at 11:49 am to RollTide1987
Russell Crow should have won the Oscar for A Beautiful Mind - 2001
One Golden Pond should have won the Oscar for Best Picture - 1981
One Golden Pond should have won the Oscar for Best Picture - 1981
Posted on 3/20/25 at 11:58 am to VolunGator
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One Golden Pond should have won the Oscar for Best Picture - 1981
You misspelled Raiders of the Lost Ark
This post was edited on 3/20/25 at 1:13 pm
Posted on 3/20/25 at 1:01 pm to H-Town Tiger
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You misspelled Raiders of the Lost Ark
True
Posted on 3/20/25 at 1:37 pm to H-Town Tiger
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Shakespeare in Love is actually a very good movie, I wonder how it would be looked at if it didn’t win Best Picture, that may be the worst thing to ever happen to it.
Agreed. Everyone hates it exactly for that reason. I’ve never watched it again for the sole reason that it beat SPR.
It’s a fun movie with great performances but it’s lightweight and silly when put next to SPR. I’m all for comedies winning BP, but 1998 was not the year for that.
The campaigning Weinstein did for SIL was so egregious, the Academy shortened the voting period the following year by having the awards telecast a month earlier.
This post was edited on 3/20/25 at 1:38 pm
Posted on 3/20/25 at 1:38 pm to RollTide1987
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2009 best picture winner
This post was edited on 3/20/25 at 1:41 pm
Posted on 3/20/25 at 1:57 pm to RollTide1987
Val Kilmer not even receiving a Supporting Actor nomination for his role in “Tombstone”.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 2:58 pm to bluestem75
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Agreed. Everyone hates it exactly for that reason. I’ve never watched it again for the sole reason that it beat SPR.
I’m sorry that’s just stupid
It’s not like that’s the first time or the last the Academy blew it. Besides Spielberg still won best director and Janusz Kaminski won best cinematography. It also won best sound and best editing quote:
The campaigning Weinstein did for SIL was so egregious,.
I know it’s a common trope to say SIL only won because Miramax promoted it so heavily but that’s overly simplistic do you really think people are that gullible? Shakespeare in Love was on most critics top 10 list that year as was SPR of course. I was down a Siskel and Ebert rabbit hole recently watching their top 10 for the year shows and both had SIL in the top 10 along with SPR, both had SPR higher but one had them back to back. It was a well received and liked movie at the time.
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the Academy shortened the voting period the following year by having the awards telecast a month earlier.
No they did not, the 1999 show (1998 movies) was broadcast on March 21, 1999. The next year was March 26, 2000, so actually longer
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This post was edited on 3/20/25 at 3:00 pm
Posted on 3/20/25 at 3:19 pm to iwyLSUiwy
I recently saw L.A. Confidential for the first time.... it blows my mind that it lost to Titanic for best picture. I also learned that not a single actor in that film was nominated for best actor/best supporting actor (well at least Basinger won Best Actress). An absolute travesty.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 3:39 pm to Johnson City Reb
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L.A. Confidential for the first time.... it blows my mind that it lost to Titanic for best picture
Or even As Good as it Gets. Even worse is The English Patient over Fargo the year before
Posted on 3/20/25 at 4:26 pm to CocomoLSU
Dude! I always assumed the same thing. No joke, that’s funny
Posted on 3/20/25 at 5:03 pm to H-Town Tiger
quote:It’s a common trope because it’s true. Weinstein openly campaigned for the movie and Spielberg refused to. Someone already mentioned it, but it’s funny that people on this board still rehash the “it’s just good the first twenty minutes” playbook. And they don’t even realize the inception aspect.
I know it’s a common trope to say SIL only won because Miramax promoted it so heavily but that’s overly simplistic do you really think people are that gullible?
And the voters are that gullible. The studios have been telling the Academy for two decades which movies to vote for. It’s called Oscar season for a reason. Look at the last couple of decades and see when the Oscar nominees were released. It isn’t a coincidence.
Shakespeare in Love was a fine movie and let’s not act like Paltrow didn’t get some flavor of the month treatment with her Oscar. There was plenty of campaigning involved.
SPR also suffered from the Academy’s habit of not choosing Blockbusters two years in a row. Titanic’s insanity the year earlier pretty much sealed SPRs loss of Best Picture before it was even released.
Is it the Biggest Snub ever? That’s subjective, but there’s a reason it always comes up and is on multiple lists.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 5:30 pm to alajones
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Weinstein openly campaigned for the movie and Spielberg refused to.
Spielberg absolutely campaigned for SPR, as he has campaigned for every one of his features in realistic contention for Oscars. What Weinstein did was orchestrate a series of smear campaigns against the other films, and put a new level of income behind the campaigns. He was generating timely backlash. He continued doing this until he was out of the industry. And the rest of the studios eventually adopted similar tactics.
It still happens. The timing of the article detailing Karla Sofia Gascon's tweets was no accident. Whether it was just the author or assisted by a rival studio's PR firm, they were waiting for the oscar nomination announcement to publish that. Same with the very specific information that came out about the use of AI in The Brutalist.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 5:30 pm to RollTide1987
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The greatest Oscar snub of all-time
David Cronenberg's The Fly.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 5:36 pm to Jay Are
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Spielberg absolutely campaigned for SPR
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Spielberg being a normal, well-adjusted good person who believed in the process [said] ‘No, I’m not going to campaign for my movie. I’ll do promotions for my movie, but I’m not going to try and charm people and send them things so they vote for my movie.’” Meanwhile Miramax started a whisper campaign saying everything good about Saving Private Ryan occurred within the first 15-20 minutes on the beaches of Normandy, and the rest was sentimental hokum. It worked. Spielberg did not campaign like it’s the Monday before election day, and Weinstein did.
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Posted on 3/20/25 at 5:44 pm to CU_Tigers4life
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The 1980's "The Color Purple".
Got shut out too.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 5:44 pm to CocomoLSU
Life Is Beautiful is also a better movie than Shakespeare In Love.
In my opinion.
In my opinion.
Posted on 3/20/25 at 6:40 pm to RollTide1987
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Herb Hancock's
Posted on 3/20/25 at 8:09 pm to CocomoLSU
I always thought True Romance got snubbed hard in general and definitely thought it warranted atleast an oscar nomination
Posted on 3/20/25 at 8:22 pm to RollTide1987
Pacino not getting a nod for "Best Supporting Actor" in "Donnie Brasco".
He played the part of Lefty Rugerio and stole the show in that movie.
He played the part of Lefty Rugerio and stole the show in that movie.
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