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re: Your best of the worst Oscar slights/oversights
Posted on 2/25/14 at 5:39 pm to RollTide1987
Posted on 2/25/14 at 5:39 pm to RollTide1987
I am still incredulous at the fact that Chariots of Fire beat out Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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Posted on 3/2/14 at 9:44 pm to Bluefin
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As for this year, it makes no sense that Daniel Bruhl wasn't nominated for his portrayal of Niki Lauda in Rush. It was as perfect a portrayal as I've ever seen.
I cant believe Rush didn't get nominated for anything. Everything was perfect about that movie.
Posted on 3/2/14 at 9:52 pm to sonusfaber
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe any of the Toy Story movies have been nominated for Best Pictures when each of them was at the very worst a top 5 movie in each of their release years.
Posted on 3/2/14 at 11:37 pm to SirSaintly
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Noah
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going to take scripture and make it their own story.
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Son of God
I have heard bad things about this movie. I think critics give it around 30% or so. May win some awards at the Christian movie awards
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Heaven is For Real
most evangelical movies are pretty crappy.
Posted on 3/2/14 at 11:38 pm to The_Man_of_Steel
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe any of the Toy Story movies have been nominated for Best Pictures when each of them was at the very worst a top 5 movie in each of their release years.
animated movies never get any respect at the oscars. That is why they added best animated feature.
Posted on 3/2/14 at 11:42 pm to catholictigerfan
Still can't believe that The Croods was nominated for Best Animated feature but Monsters University wasn't. Frozen was amazing, but I wanted Monsters University to win. Loved everything about that movie even the marketing campaign 
Posted on 3/3/14 at 1:23 am to RollTide1987
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1997 - Best Picture
Winner: Titanic
Should've won: As Good as it Gets or Good Will Hunting
As Good as it Gets is as overrated as it gets. Neither Jack Nicholson nor Helen Hunt should have won their Oscars that year. Good Will Hunting is a great movie but I prefer LA Confidential and Titanic over it.
although the love story was cheesy, what james cameron achieved with "titanic" was remarkable. the movie was truly epic, and is what I feel the winner of best picture should be. LA confidential was a phenomenal movie as well, but titanic deserved the oscar.
I feel the same way about forrest gump. I personally enjoyed shawshank and pulp fiction better, but I had zero problem with FG winning best picture.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 2:18 am to rebeloke
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My top of the list is the year they overlooked Russell Crowe in Beautiful Mind. They gave it to Washington for Training Day
Wow, actually never knew this. These are probably my 2 favorite actors, and I have never even seen training day, but I guess I just assumed Crowe won for A Beautiful mind. Absolutely incredible performance.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 7:19 am to Zephyrius
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Raging Bull should have won best picture over Ordinary People
Posted on 3/3/14 at 7:31 am to RollTide1987
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Outside of the first 15 minutes, SPR does absolutely nothing new. But a movie is more than an opening.
Since when does a movie have to do something new to win Best Picture? Shakespeare in Love was a clever film, I love it, but Saving Private Ryan has impacted the film industry more so than Shakespeare in Love despite doing "something new".
Saving Private Ryan is a technical masterpiece.
And I would say this year resembles that year, but the other way around.
Saving Private Ryan = 12 Years a Slave
Shakespeare in Love = Gravity
A historical drama with a starpowered cast, competently made, well written, hitting all the right marks for Oscar success. Taking on extremely tough material and doing it well. But overall, just bland.
Against, a crowd-pleaser genre film with a starpowered cast, going into different movie territory (SiL's fun meta romp through creativity and "film" making, Gravity technical and visceral focus), that is extremely successful and completely unique.
And when I say, "SPR does absolutely nothing new" I really mean in the context of the above. SPR is a film built to win an Oscar, much like 12 Years a Slave. It doesn't really push anything forward (again, outside of the first 15). It's a by-the-book war film. Well made, but by the book. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but it's a weakness.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 8:19 am to catholictigerfan
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Son of God
Son of God, is an extended version of the History Channel series, The Bible. Acting wise, it's not very good. Spiritually it's very good.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 8:30 am to Sus-Scrofa
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Can't really comment in this thread, I place Rocky Balboa (Rocky 6) in my top five all time movies.
Then you are a cinematic savant.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 8:34 am to GeauxPack81
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Wow, actually never knew this. These are probably my 2 favorite actors, and I have never even seen training day, but I guess I just assumed Crowe won for A Beautiful mind. Absolutely incredible performance.
Crowe was the favorite to win. Just before the oscar vote Crowe got in a [fist?] fight with a well known British producer souring the academy on him.
ABC News
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Posted on 3/3/14 at 8:35 am to Freauxzen
I, too, enjoyed SiL very much, but was surprised it beat out out SPL which, as was noted, was built for the Oscar.
The snub that will always bother me is that idiot clown Bernini beating Nick Nolte for best actor. Nolte was clearly the best that year in Affliction.
The snub that will always bother me is that idiot clown Bernini beating Nick Nolte for best actor. Nolte was clearly the best that year in Affliction.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 8:41 am to LuckySo-n-So
Johnny Depp not winning for his original Jack Sparrow was dumb. I know people see Sparrow now as dumb (due to 57 sequels), but at the time he was fantastic.
Depp completely created an ICONIC original character from the ground up and acted him out to perfection.
Who wins? Sean Penn because he cried in Mystic River. That was the "safe" choice.
But 50 years from now people will know Jack Sparrow (sounds like a quote from him in PoTC).
Hardly anyone remembers Penn's character's name from Mystic River even today.
Depp completely created an ICONIC original character from the ground up and acted him out to perfection.
Who wins? Sean Penn because he cried in Mystic River. That was the "safe" choice.
But 50 years from now people will know Jack Sparrow (sounds like a quote from him in PoTC).
Hardly anyone remembers Penn's character's name from Mystic River even today.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 8:47 am to VOR
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I, too, enjoyed SiL very much, but was surprised it beat out out SPL which, as was noted, was built for the Oscar.
I thought that was a good thing
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The snub that will always bother me is that idiot clown Bernini beating Nick Nolte for best actor. Nolte was clearly the best that year in Affliction.
Nolte's performance in that was awesome. And yeah, Begnini.. ugh.
In terms of acting, Ellen Burstyn not winning in 2000 for Requiem for a Dream. One of my all time favorite performances. I mean the field was loaded:
Julia Roberts Erin Brockovich (Winner)
Joan Allen The Contender
Juliette Binoche Chocolat
Ellen Burstyn Requiem for a Dream
Laura Linney You Can Count on Me
But still, Burstyn deserved it.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 8:58 am to LuckySo-n-So
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The Color Purple going 0-11.
You mean that it was nominated at all, right?
Posted on 3/3/14 at 9:00 am to Freauxzen
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Julia Roberts Erin Brockovich (Winner)
Joan Allen The Contender
Juliette Binoche Chocolat
Ellen Burstyn Requiem for a Dream
Laura Linney You Can Count on Me
She just swore a lot, right?
I'm selling it short. Good performance. Even though I never want to see Requiem again, Ellen probably should have won, though.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 9:48 am to sicboy
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She just swore a lot, right?
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I'm selling it short. Good performance.
Yeah, I won't argue. It was pretty good. In any other year I would say it was worthy, but...
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Even though I never want to see Requiem again, Ellen probably should have won, though.
Ellen's performance was both magnificent and courageous. There's never been something like that on film. And she won more than a few awards for it, just not the Oscar.
Posted on 3/3/14 at 11:11 am to The_Man_of_Steel
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe any of the Toy Story movies have been nominated for Best Pictures
Toy Story 3, the best of the lot imo, was nominated in 2010. But that was with the expanded nominations in place (10 total that year).
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