Biggest Oscar mistakes

Anything won by "Titanic". The best character in the film was the boat, and that sank. The script was appalling, the main characters were utterly uninteresting and James Cameron's ridiculous antics on the podium were crass.

"Crass" leaRAB to "Crash". I quite enjoyed "Crash", but it definitely didn't deserve to win. Brokeback Mountain was far more profound and moving, Capote was excellent, Munich was plain brilliant and Goodnight & Good Luck was sublime. Any of those four would have been a deserving winner.

Nicolas Cage's Oscar for "Leaving Las Vegas". The man is an atrocious actor. His range is pathetic - all of his characters are the same. He played a moron in the reprehensible "Con Air", a moron in the soul-destroying "The Rock" and I'm sure he was in "Snake Eyes", but I can't for the life of me remember anything that happened in that film.

Gwyneth Paltrow was excellent in in "Shakespeare in Love", but Cate Blanchett was extraordinary in "Elizabeth" and should have won easily.

Naomi Watts ("21 Grams") losing out to Charlize Theron ("Monster"). Anyone starring in "The Italian Job" remake doesn't deserve an Oscar, but does deserve to be sectioned.

That Julianne Moore has been nominated four times and hasn't won yet. Equally, Peter O'Toole hasn't won anything, Audrey Hepburn only won once (whilst alive) and it took until "The Departed" for Martin Scorcese to win.

Why did Denzil Washington win for "Training Day"? Talk about eating the carpet.

"Gosford Park" should have won more than just a screenplay award for Julian Fellowes as well.
 
L.A Confidential should have won that year. Titanic was cheese, but I had major problems with Good Will Hunting because it wasn't half as clever as it thought it was.

I think however, worse was Crash winning over Brokeback Mountain. Crash was imo, a decent enough film, nothing more. Brokeback was exceptional.

Heath and Jake deserved more awarRAB for their performances.
 
Ghost was up against Goodfellas which should have won and Dances With Wolves which did, that was also the year Julia Roberts was nominated for Pretty Woman
 
I love Denzel, but he shouldn't have won it for Training Day, he should have got it for The Hurricane...

Color Purple has to be one of the biggest Oscar travesties, all those noms and not one single award.
 
Remember 1992 when Marisa Tomei won Best Supporting Actress for My Cousin Vinny as "Mona Lisa Vito"
The losing nominees were-:
Judy Davis - HusbanRAB and Wives as "Sally"
Joan Plowright - Enchanted April as "Mrs. Fisher"
Vanessa Redgrave - HowarRAB End as "Ruth Wilcox"
Miranda RicharRABon - Damage as "Ingrid Fleming"

WHAT happened that year?:confused:
 
I dunno. There is something about Juno. Yeah it may not have that certain banging storyline like some films, but the writing is brilliant.
 
Anything that beat There Will Be Blood to anything. No Country for Old Men is fine, aimless and unsatisfying perhaps, but stylish and engaging no doubt.

But better than There Will Be Blood? No way.
 
Judi Dench winning for Shakespeare In Love

Richard Harris should have won for The Field

Gloria Stuart and Kate Winslet should have won for Titanic. Lenardo Di Caprio and Billy Zane should have been nominated.
 
you are obviously not one of those who actually read the behind the scenes books or look at the extras disc on the dvd otherwise you would have not made such an absoluty knowledgeable observation would you my dearie!!! bless you!!:D;):rolleyes:
 
Finding Nemo deserved the nod!

Lost in Translation won the Oscar it deserved (screenplay) and it did deserve the nominations but I cannot agree that it should have beaten LOTR.

I do think that Bill Murray was robbed of his Oscar though by Sean Penn who phoned in his performance for Mystic River and was outacted constantly by Tim Robbins.
 
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