Biggest Oscar mistakes

A similar thing happens with Foreign Language films - they occasionally feature in Best Picture nominations, but how often has there been a truly wonderful film not in English ignored in this category?
 
Have to agree with all the posts on here re Munich - excellent film and every performance was oscar worthy.

Just watched Diving Bell and the Butterfly and The Kite Runner - again - excellent films that deserve an oscar nod..
 
I never did understand that especially when nearly every director today usually nominates him as the best of all time.

Also mentioned Peter O'Toole who should have won the oscar for Lawrence of Arabia.

Barbara Stanwyck for Double Indemnity.
 
Oscar sometimes acknowledges its mistakes the year after they occur...

Jeremy Irons was given his Oscar for Reversal of Fortune when he was criminally ignored the year before in his electrifying performance in Dead Ringers.

Dame Judi Dench got a best supporting actress Oscar for Shakespeare in Love in 1998 to make up for the travesty of her not winning a best actress Oscar for Mrs Brown.
 
I would certainly have given Julianne Moore the supporting actress oscar for the Hours over Catherine Zeta Jones but I cannot agree about Nicole Kidman, she was fantastic as Virginia Woolf whereas I got a bit annoyed with the Julianne Moore character in FFH.
 
Me neither. I still am annoyed. ;)

Also, Helen Hunt winning Best Actress. Should have been Judi Dench that year.

It's a travesty Hitchcock never won an Oscar. I don't count the honorary one he got.

I also think Nicole Kidman was lucky to get an Oscar for The Hours, when Julianne Moore was much better in that film. All Kidman did was have a daft prosthetic nose!

Neeson should have won for Schindler's List.

LA Confidential should have been best film over Titanic.

Marisa Tomei should never even have been nominated...let alone win an Oscar! ;)
 
I agree, I think The Lives of Others (and possibly Pan's Labyrinth) deserved Best Picture nominations last year but ended up relegated to Best Film Not in the English language.

Or they do what they did with Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and throw it the Foreign Language oscar so that an English language film can pick up the Best Picture Oscar.
 
I agree with you on that one - but the Academy doesn't take 'genre' films such as horror seriously - they usually acknowledge them with either a make-up award or a special effects award or a sound effects award. He should have won it, never mind been nominated!

See the competition - http://www.popculturemadness.com/Trivia/Oscars/Top-1986-O.html
(I see David Lynch got a directing nomination :))

I agree that Irons should have been considered for Dead Ringers as well.
Maybe one day director David Cronenberg will get some recognition from the Academy (to go with his 36 wins from other organisations!)
 
looks aghast! :D

i think it's a misconception about pulp fiction and reservoir dogs' violence, in that there's actually not that much.

what's great about pulp fiction is the dialogue, and the brilliant way the three stories intertwine.

but how much violence actually is there?

Iain
 
Lost in Translation won an Oscar for best screenplay :confused: and got nominations in other catergories....why??? It's awful - the script is so lame and nothing happens, I can't believe there were no other movies better than this one that year.
 
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