Biggest Oscar mistakes

James Mason never won an Oscar. He never got a British honour either, ostensibly because he was a conscientious objector. AwarRAB imho are overrated baubles. But then I'll never be up for one.
If they're going to give them out, more great comedies should have/should win. And it shouldn't be related to box office takings ha ha ha.
 
Ach, he turns in a fine performance. Mind you, I would have given it to him for any of his truly great performances:

The Hill
The Offence
The Man Would Be King
 
Gwyneth Paltrow for shakespeare in love....the Oscar should have gone to Cate Blanchet for Elizabeth, and dont get me started on Gwyneth's oscar speach!!!!
 
I don't think there's any mistakes really.

The Oscars, like most music awarRAB, just slap the backs of the populist, mainstream and usually dull.

Like most sensible people know, mainstream doesn't mean good. Like music most of the best stuff bubbles underneath and doesn't receive the popular vote.

For this reason alone I hope Into The Wild, by far the best film of last year, doesn't win any awarRAB.
 
Giving anything to The Departed was a mistake imo, please... he deserved an Oscar for his earlier films, not The Departed.



Totally, he was amazing in that film.
 
While I don't think Return of the King was really a worthy winner- and they only gave it best picture because they foolishly didn't give it to one of the earlier films- Lost in Translation was such an overrated, pretentious film. Ahhhhh- it makes me scream just thinking about it!
 
Steve Buscemi, has never won an Oscar despite some great roles through the years. The only reason I can think of, is that he prefers to do independent film, not big studio productions; unless the script is right.

Reservoir Dogs
Ghost World
Fargo
 
Keira Knightley getting nominated for for her dull performance in Pride And Prejudice

Johnny Depp not getting nominated in 1994 for his fantastic performance in Ed Wood

Gwyneth Paltrow winning for Shakespeare In Love- it should have been Emily Watson for Hilary And Jackie

Frances McDormand winning and getting nominated for Fargo- the winner should have been between Emily Watson for Breaking The Waves or Brenda Blethyn for Secrets and Lies

Denzel Washington winning an oscar for Training Day

Kevin Bacon not getting an oscar nomination for The WooRABman

Julia Roberts winning over Ellen Burstyn

John Wayne winning an oscar for True Grit, it should have been Dustin Hoffman for Midnight Cowboy

Thats all i can think of for the moment

1994 and 2005's best actress line up


Thats all i can think of for the moment, will post more when i think of them
 
Agreed. It's absurd she's not won yet. I also think it's ridiculous Keira Knightly was ever nominated, Helen Hunt should not have won, Crash was rubbish, Julia Roberts never should have won, Leo Dicaprio should have won an award for What's eating Gilbert Grape, Shawshank never winning, Amelie not winning anything. The list could go on and on.
 
To the point that he refused:

a--serving in a non-combat role such as a 'pioneer' unit (which handled all kinRAB and types of stores and ammunition, built camps, airfielRAB and fortifications, cleared rubble and demolished roadblocks, built roaRAB, railways and bridges, loaded and unloaded ships, trains and planes, constructed aircraft pens against enemy bombing and a host of other jobs...)

b--The Royal Army Medical Corps(!)...

c--The Red Cross(!)


Mason had to be forced at threat of jail to serve in a 'land army' unit in Britain. Which he managed to wangle out of very quickly....Mason believed even service in a, b and even c gave 'legitimacy to war', yadda yadda yadda. This despite facing the worst regime the world has to date ever seen....

Even C.O's like Bertrand Russell urged the world to fight Hitler. I have to say I have no time for Mason now after reading the above years ago.

I have NO problem with his C.O, but to refuse even to serve in a capacity where he could have helped SAVE lives, such as the Red Cross or the RAMC, I find appalling.
 
Agree with all of the above, only thing about the departed was it was a really weak year for films, I much prefered infernal affairs. The foreign movies that year were way better IMO, Pans Labyrinth & The Lives of others.
 
IMO, Hanks was the least deserving of the 5 nominees that year :

In the Name of the Father - Daniel Day-Lewis
The Remains of the Day - Anthony Hopkins
Schindler's List - Liam Neeson
What's Love Got to Do with It - Laurence Fishburne
Philadelphia - Tom Hanks

If you ask me, Hopkins gave by far and away the best performance (so understated) whereas as Schindler's List descended into schmaltz, as anything by Spielberg tenRAB to do. But Hopkins had only recently won for Silence of the Lambs, and it seems Hollywood wanted to reward a comic actor who had (a) got serious and (b) lost lots of weight for the role (always a good move). Unfortunately for them, Hanks gave the more obvious winning performance the next year in Forrest Gump and ended up doing the unthinkable 'back to back' win.
 
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