As opposed to a factually based film about the holocaust?
Eh. I don't feel these were really deserving, as decent as the performances were.
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Actors/Actresses who were robbed of an Oscar
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As opposed to a factually based film about the holocaust?
Eh. I don't feel these were really deserving, as decent as the performances were.
Oh there was plenty fucked up about Brody winning for that dreck...
ResidentWeevil13
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A recent one ( and not a huge deal), but I think Mark Ruffalo deserved best supporting actor for Spotlight. Watch an interview with the guy he's portraying, and then watch the movie, and tell me he doesn't completely nail it. The verbal ticks are spot on
A Serious Man
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So nominations should be based on how awkward the acceptance speech might be? And I was highlighting the fact that it wasn't nominated for anything, not just acting categories.
30yearsofhurt
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My heart bleeds for all these overpaid actors.
I like her a lot. Still the movie was better itself, for its subject. Not really for her score.
TheChewyWaffles
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Maybe it was because of his hokey southern accent.
He was nominated. Then the winner ... Nobody gave you the % of vote for the winner. It is rarely a majority. Sometimes a few more votes than the others.
Sometimes one unknown wins, just because the 2 favorites are too much split among voters.
RipperGrim
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Ian McKellen didn't get one for Gandalf or any role he's been in which is a damn shame.
Both were good in 2 good movies. One was in a movie highly "positively regarded" movie. The fact that Gibson was nominated was already a big win considering how he is regarded by many people.
Al pacino should have won many times before. Many late actors got one just because this is their last chance.
George Oscar Bluth II
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This is why you shouldn't give a shit about the Oscars or awards in general, no matter the category.
I just watch the Oscars for the fuckery (and to see some great artists actually get recognition for once then get played off mid speech).
I just watch the Oscars for the fuckery (and to see some great artists actually get recognition for once then get played off mid speech).
torre_avenue
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Natalie Portman should have won for "Jackie." That was a much better performance than Emma Stone's one in "La La Land."
StWilson85
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The miscalculation was putting her for lead instead of supporting, she was never going to win that.
In terms of most annoying snubs that I personally remember, I'd go for these 3/4 being the most egregious (in no real order).
1. Heath Ledger losing for Brokeback
2. The entire 2012 best actress race. I like J-Law but winning for the dire SLP over Riva, Wallis and Chastain was just the worst.
3. Bill Murray for Lost in Translation to Sean Penn's dull performance in Mystic River.
4. David Oyelowo not even being nominated in 2014, which they awarded to the dullest man alive, Eddie Redmayne.
WaffleTaco
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Leo should have won a bunch of times before The Revenant. I wish he would have won for The Wolf of Wall Street. He was so absolutely insane and very funny. In the Revenant he was cold.
But it was absolutely spot on for the character.
Shakespeare in Love winning Best Picture over Saving Private Ryan. Shakespeare in fucking Love.
Def the most recent fuckery.
Def the most recent fuckery.
baddvision
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gary oldman
This is the one that bothers me most.
John Dunbar
correct about everything
saving private ryan didn't deserve to win shit with those horrible bookends ruining the movie.
???
Before starring in 2015's Wolf Hall, Rylance had done virtually nothing of worth in cinema. He's a stage actor.
Thin Red Line should have won Best Picture.
Ahaha,
Stallone was being Stallone in Creed. Why would he win an Oscar for that shit? Get fucked, Stallone.
DaBargainHunta
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I thought both of them (Robin Williams for One Hour Photo and Sharlto Copley for District 9) had the best performance of the year their respective years. Plus, District 9 was nominated for Best Picture, so whether or not you feel the movie itself was deserving, the Academy did. Besides, even if you think District 9 was terrible, good performances in bad movies win all the time - Meryl Streep for The Iron Curtain, for example. Horrendous movie but she was good in it.
One Hour Photo wasn't nominated for anything, unfortunately.
She's a stunningly beautiful British woman who transformed herself into a dowdy American professor. I thought it was a fantastic performance.
SolidSnakeUS
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How did it take this thread this long to get this post? Roberto Benigni (sp?) did not deserve that Oscar in any sense. Norton was fucking unreal.
It's not like members of the Academy can nominate anything they want. Studios put forth the movies that they want to be up for consideration in each category.
really man.
Last I attempted watching TRL I didn't make it through the first hour.
It's funny, because that's one of those years they made it up to Pacino. Al Pacino for scent of a woman?
Then you had 1999, where both Crowe and Denzel gave fantastic performers.... and they give it to Spacey in midlife crisis.
So the next two years, gave it to Crowe and Denzel for two flicks where they were fine, but both deserved it earlier and won for worse performances
2004 is another were Dicaprio lost to Foxx for Aviator and began his quest. Then alongside his Wolf of Wall Street lost, again, they fucked up and gave it for a lesser performance like Crowe and Denzel.
2014 is another terrible as pick with Redmayne over Keaton.
2003 had another shit decision, Where they awarded the "I fucked up Oscar" to the bloated Return of the King, rather than Master and Commander. Because Felllowship lost to A Beautiful Mind.
Nah, I wanted Stallone to win, but a lot of people seem to misplace having a big dramatic scene needed to win. Rylance sold the shit out of his character in BoS. The entire film is based around you caring about a Russian spy who wants to go home, but doesn't want to betray his country either. So he has to play within a range of emotions and largely some how make you the viewer care about him. It was not a bad pick at all.
old manatee
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Its odd that neither Bette Davis nor Gloria Swanson didnt win an Oscar for their performances in All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard considering they are two of the most iconic performances ever. Had to have been vote splitting. I would have had a hard time deciding which performance I preferred too but...
Also: Emmanuelle Riva should have won over Jennifer Lawrence.
Also: Emmanuelle Riva should have won over Jennifer Lawrence.
Yeah of all the times Leo was deserving of an Oscar I don't think Revenant was one of them.
It seems people think Awards are a jury with a fine debate between the qualities of every performer.
Everyone within the industry vote in the final round (only the nominees are voted by profession). So, a costum designer has the same weight as any actor to vote.
So in the end, this is just random choice based also on the fact that most of the voters did not even see the movies they vote for
Everyone within the industry vote in the final round (only the nominees are voted by profession). So, a costum designer has the same weight as any actor to vote.
So in the end, this is just random choice based also on the fact that most of the voters did not even see the movies they vote for
The Artisan
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Denzel Washington should've gotten it for Malcolm X.
Will Smith should've gotten it for Ali.
Johnny Depp should've gotten it for Pirates.
Al Pacino should've been nominated & gotten it for Scarface.
Will Smith should've gotten it for Ali.
Johnny Depp should've gotten it for Pirates.
Al Pacino should've been nominated & gotten it for Scarface.
Acquiescence
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I wanted to see Stallone win for Creed. Was crestfallen he didn't. He'll never get another chance again.
Ehh Rylance was kind of a nothing, emotionless performance to me.
But I'm glad somebody else thinks Master and Commander was the deserving winner in 2003. Poor movie got all of its noms stolen by RotK, except for two.
ashecitism
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Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
Meh
Viola Davis should've won, certainly not Streep streeping out or Mara's tryhard performance.
Holy shit has norton never won an Oscar?
That's sort of the point. He's a spy who has his desires against loyalty. He's not supposed to be overly emotionally. He clearly wants to go home, but also doesn't want to betray his country, but he's also been in this country so long. He might as well be considered an American. The entire film is based around Hanks' character wanted to do what is right, and I feel Rylance did that. I cared about a Russian spy. He's forced to play in a limited spectrum of emotions, rather than Stallone who can have another great big scene chewing. Not saying it's bad, but it's fucking Rocky. His character has always been an emotional typhoon.
ROTK is a mess of a film and didn't deserve to win at all. The entire 2003 Oscars was a sorry for giving it Howard for a Beautiful Mind and half, we have to give it to this event flick. Master and Commander, I would put up as the greatest sailing movie, alongside best War Flick. Everything it did was master class. Pick a scene, everything leads up to it. The man being lost at scene? Themselves being lost? The suicide? Hitting Darwin's Island, etc. Every scene doesn't just happen either, it's driven entirely by what it adds to the character development.
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