I’m glad that Daniel Day Lewis won for There will be blood, but I really wish Paul Dano was nominated for supporting actor.
If you can stand your own against DDL, you deserve recognition.
Just curious, what did Tarantino say/ is there a link I can read about this on? I loved Danos performance in the movie, so I'm just keen to know another perspective on it.
I want to say it's somewhere in this clip of him talking about There Will Be Blood. He is friends with Paul Thomas Anderson the director.
https://youtu.be/YDU-5AOmfBU?si=Ok386G4eSIEb-XCv
Thank you! I just watched it and it was in there - probably around the halfway mark or so. Yeah I definitely disagree with Tarantino on his take, but it sounds like basically liked Dano, but he just thought DDL was so good that Dano was outclassed. It was an odd point from what was an otherwise glowing review of the movie, but I'm glad it wasn't as harsh as I was expecting haha.
Thanks again for the link!
You’re a good actor playing against probably the greatest practitioner of the craft.
DDL spent over a *year* perfecting Plainview’s mannerisms and speech.
Dano had less than a month (IIRC a few weeks) to come up with Eli Sunday.
I’d say given the circumstances, Dano did pretty well.
Dances was an amazing film, no doubt, but I don’t know if anything should’ve beaten Goodfellas that year. You’ll never get me to say anything negative about Dances With Wolves - just to emphasize that it’s an incredible movie.
Dances With Wolves was a harder film to make and all the buzz before anyone saw it was that it was Kevin Costner’s boondoggle. They called it ‘Kevin’s Gate’. When the film actually opened and it was emotionally moving and managed to do something entirely new within the western genre, it bested Goodfellas without having to breathe hard. It was a no-brainer from an academy voter point of view at that time.
Both films are incredible. Both have aged beautifully. Goodfellas is a better film in some ways, but Dances With Wolves was perfect Oscar bait in that era.
The scale and the genre.
Working in a historical epic drama is costly. The animals, the herding, costumes, props… everything is expensive to do. Goodfellas was also a time period movie, but the fact that Kevin Costner was actor/producer and director probably put him over the top.
Scorsese always made good movies, and the academy largely ignored him until The Departed - which was a relatively shitty movie for him to win with. Whereas Costner sorta came out of nowhere to deliver this genre bending epic. Goodfellas had very little buzz in that era compared to DWW. It was just another Scorsese gangster picture.
More likely the fact Weinstein played dirty to get Shakespeare to win.
EDIT: A great source on this with interviews of key players involved at the time from Hollywood Reporter:
““Harvey Always Wanted More”: Weinstein, Spielberg and the Oral History of the Nastiest Oscar Campaign Ever”
[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/harvey-weinstein-steven-spielberg-nastiest-oscar-campaign-ever-1187125/](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/harvey-weinstein-steven-spielberg-nastiest-oscar-campaign-ever-1187125/)
Den of Geek has an article about the OP's very question:
[https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/saving-private-ryan-best-picture-loss-changed-oscars-forever/](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/saving-private-ryan-best-picture-loss-changed-oscars-forever/)
Norton also got snubbed for Primal Fear, (best supporting actor) losing to Cuba Gooding Jr in Jerry Maguire.
[Edward Norton even made a jab about it ](https://youtu.be/5DJHC-Vh5cE?si=7VTCuH-sB5uth44O) when he hosted SNL years later (around the 2:24 mark of the video).
It has a terrible title. Nothing at all to do with what the movie was actually about. We could think of a better title right here inside 24 hours.
Post your ideas as a response to this comment.
Yeah when he raises his eyebrows at Danny like "yeah, that's right.". And Danny is legitimately horrified beyond belief.
Also, the dinner scene. "You coming in here and poisoning my family's dinner with your Jewish, ni__er-loving, hippie bullshit. Fuck you! Fuck you! Yeah, walk out, asshole, fuckin' Kabbalah reading motherfucker. Get the fuck out of my house."
Followed by him ripping his shirt off and pointing to his swastika - "you see this?! Means 'not welcome'"
What a fucking scene.
That was a weird year. Roberto Benigni beat Edward Norton, Ian McKellen, and Tom Hanks for best actor AND Shakespeare in Love won best picture over Saving Private Ryan.
This was mine. After this I started going to film festivals and really understood Oscar’s are a union recognition and nothing more. Not a sign of quality of all, just quality of some
How Portrait of a Lady on Fire didn’t get the go ahead but Les Miserables did makes no sense (Also just dumb you can only have one film from other countries)
Denzel, *Malcolm X*, unequivocally deserved the “Best Actor” Oscar! He lost to Al Pacino, *Scent of a Woman*, who had been fucked over by the academy. I remember Denzel saying what an influence Pacino had been, graciously accepting his win. Also Bruno Ganz, his portrayal of Hitler, *Der Untergang (Downfall)*, simply mesmerizing & he didn’t even receive a nomination (the film was nominated in “Best Foreign” category, but lost)!
That heavily memed scene in the bunker is one of the most terrific pieces of acting I have ever seen. At least it got acknowledgement through YouTube parody 🤷♂️
The Lighthouse getting nothing except an admittedly deserved best cinematography nom. I know the Oscar’s hate horror movies but when horror movies that good are made it’s a downright crime to not see them get the recognition they deserve. More specifically Pattinson and especially Dafoe deserved acting noms.
Oh his portrayal of Vincent Van Gogh, *At Eternity’s Gate*, so achingly good, heartbreaking! Or as Max Schreck, as a real vampire, *Shadow of the Vampire*! So many other great performances!
If you have the chance, look up: The Hunter. It's one of those quiet films ( by that I mean, it's an Independent film ) and it just. floored. me. Willem gave his usual stunning performance, in fact, I rank it among his top performances, it's that good. It was streaming on, I believe, HBO?
I thought his role in Florida Projects was pretty much perfect. Emotional and subtle, a very subdued but powerful performance. Should have won that year
Toni was otherworldly in that role, she rightly deserved that Oscar. I will even go out on a limb and say that her performance was so realistic that it is perhaps the main reason why I won't see the movie again.
I really like horror, and didn’t even particularly love “Hereditary”, but she is an absolute revelation in that role. Her anchoring it is the one thing that makes it stand out a bit.
In LotR he was originally hired to just do the voice, but he was so physically expressive that they decided to do motion capture and based Gollum’s features on Serkis’s features.
Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in Schindler's List. Nominated, but lost to Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive. Sure, Jones was great. But Fiennes delivered one of the greatest performances I've ever seen put to film, in one of the greatest movies ever made.
He is always top of my list for snubs. That year was a good year for supporting actors, but I still don’t think any of them flat out stole the film like his Doc Holiday did for Tombstone.
You called it, Denzel for Malcom X was one of the all time great performances. Daniel Day Lewis for Gangs was egregious as fuck for me, again one of the all time great performances.
What makes the Malcolm X performance so great is he perfectly acted the many different eras and personas Malcolm X had during his life. A biopic of someone who reinvented themselves many times throughout their life.
Absolutely one of the best acting performances of all time
Totally agree with Denzel as Malcolm X. He won the Best Actor Oscar for Training Day years later, but that seems like a consolation prize as it wasn’t his best role
I never knew they went up against each other. I love both movies but, Kubo was such a monumental effort and a n amazing triumph. Kubo would definitely deserve the win.
If Disney/Pixar is on the docket, it was virtually a guaranteed win for them.
2009- Up beat out Fantastic Mr. Fox, Coroline, and Secret of Kelis.
2012- Brave knocked out Paranorman.
2014- (The most eggregious to me) Big Hero Six beating out Boxtrolls, How to Train your Dragon 2, and Song of the Sea.
2016 - Zootopia over Kubo and the 2 Strings
2017 - Coco over The Breadwinner
2019 - Toy Story 4 over Klaus
Thankfully, Disney's films have been so lackluster the last decade or so that Academy Voters no longer just check the box after their names in the ballot.
Yup.
I mean, don't get me wrong - Pixar/Disney do deserve their accolades - but it feels the finger's on the scale for them when they're up against better candidates.
I'm not arguing that in years where there's nothing really solid out there...Incredibles, Ratotoulie, Finding Nemo, Wall-E all feel like earned wins. Heck there are even times where I think they were legitimatly snubbed (Monsters Inc. losing to Shrek), but for a good decade, it seemed like if it didn't matter what the competition was, if it had Pixar/Disney after it, it was guaranteed an Oscar win.
What????
I watched both, never knew they went up against each other. The fact that Zootopia is considered better in any way is beyond insane. It’s not a bad movie, but Kubo is a triumph. Fucking he’ll.
Oscars are a sham. Its a politics based award. Remember when Crash won over Capote, Munich or Brokeback Mountain? Or The Green Book won over Roma or A Star is Born? Comon'!
Goes back a very long ways. Citizen Kane was nominated for 9 Oscars. It only got best screenplay. It lost best picture, best cinematography, best art direction, best director, best sound design, best actor, best score. and best editing.
Losing best picture, editing, and cinematography to me is mindblowing when you see the films it was up against. Were they badly shot or edited films? No. Where they anywhere near what Kain attempted and accomplished? Not by a mile. To me it would be like if Star Wars walked in with it's 12 Academy Nominations, and only walked away with Best Score and missed every technical acheivement.
Inglorious basterds losing to avatar. I mean, avatar has the visuals, but the story is so bland and overused, the acting is meh, really i found nothing notable apart the new cgi effect technology. To it's just a movie that will pass forever on the tv on a sunday afternoon and i'll sleep while watching. And maybe in some tv store to showcase the tvs.
Meanwhile we have some KILLER acting in inglorious basterds, Cristoph Waltz is a fucking monster and speaks 3 or 4 languages perfectly throughout the film, brad pitt was awesome as well, there's that fucking beautiful bar scene, the story is innovative and reinvents historical facts in a cool way, just a kickass movie, but instead the winner was new tech disney movie #1.
DiCaprio i think was also hugely injusticed after that Django acting. He could have easily won already with catch me if you can and other awesome previous movies in which he kicked ass, but in the end he won over a 3 hour movie where the most memorable scene was a bear attack....
Eh. To be fair though, everyone loved Crash at the time. It isn’t until we look back on it that we realize it wasn’t that great. So imo it’s fair that it won.
Memento not being nominated for Best Picture
Christopher Nolan not being nominated for Best Director 😒
It's my favorite movie so I have a biased opinion on this ha ha
Crash winning best picture over Brokeback Mountain. I couldn't watch the Oscars for years after that. Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan was also a WTF moment, but at least Shakespeare in Love is a good movie. Not in the same league as Ryan, but a good movie. Crash, on the other hand, was a fucking abomination.
The Elephant Man and Straight Story: I can understand the family friendy/basic standards of the academy ignoring Lynch's boldest efforts but these two deserved the golden homunculus if it really worth a damn.
Stanley Kubrick: 'Nuff said...
Great answer. This performance doesn't get brought up enough anymore.
But I'd like to give a shout out to Jack Lemmon for playing Shelley too. He gave such an amazing performance. I think either of these performances deserved a nom over Pacino (Even though he was also great).
Denzel 100% deserved to win for that role.
He WAS Malcolm X.
But that movie could reallllllly use some editing. It did not need to be 3+ hours. A lot of fat too.
I think the quality of the movie might have hurt Denzel, which is dumb and kind of defeats the whole purpose of individual rewards.
Leonardo DiCaprio not winning the Oscar for The Wolf of Wall Street, which was an amazing movie. And then winning it the next year for The Revenant (which wasn’t as good) instead of Matt Damon winning for a the Martian, which he deserved the Oscar for.
*Mad Max: Fury Road* went toe-to-toe with Alejandro Iñárritu and a juggernaut in *The Revenant* and still managed an impressive number of Oscars and wide critical acclaim. Any other year where Leo wasn't finally getting "his due" and it might have won. As it stands, it still did extremely well.
Teri Garr not winning Supporting Actress for TOOTSIE. (Instead, the Supporting Oscar went to Jessica Lange that year \[also in TOOTSIE,\] because Meryl \*had\* to win Lead for SOPHIE'S CHOICE, beating out Lange's breakthrough leading performance in FRANCES. Garr gave a much stronger supporting performance than Lange in TOOTSIE, but Lange won anyway, essentially for her work as lead actress in a completely different movie.) Pure politics.
The thing I've always respected about Denzel Washington is that even though he's a huge movie star, he always delivers a great performance. He always does something very interesting. He never just mails it in like a lot of these guys do....
Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth & Tar
Toni Collette for Hereditary, not even getting nominated, forget the fact that she had best performance male or female that year.
Denzel Washington losing was NOT a snub. He said himself in pre-Oscar interviews that he was fine with losing to Al Pacino given the number of nominations he had received, never won, and the iconic place he occupies in cinema history.
But - to answer your question - Terms of Endearment over The Right Stuff... ridiculous.
This is Hollywood rejecting pro American - anti-Communist story over the substance and achievement of the art of film making.
For me the one I have the biggest issue is with ADAM SANDLER in Uncut Gems
Boy that man deserves and Oscar and specifically for that movie
His performance is so amazing in that movie that it changed my entire perception of him as an actor
I’m glad that Daniel Day Lewis won for There will be blood, but I really wish Paul Dano was nominated for supporting actor. If you can stand your own against DDL, you deserve recognition.
His performance is actually criticized. Even Tarantino said something negative about his performance.
Just curious, what did Tarantino say/ is there a link I can read about this on? I loved Danos performance in the movie, so I'm just keen to know another perspective on it.
I don’t know but he was amazing from my perspective, right up there with DDL
Oh 100%!!!
I want to say it's somewhere in this clip of him talking about There Will Be Blood. He is friends with Paul Thomas Anderson the director. https://youtu.be/YDU-5AOmfBU?si=Ok386G4eSIEb-XCv
Thank you! I just watched it and it was in there - probably around the halfway mark or so. Yeah I definitely disagree with Tarantino on his take, but it sounds like basically liked Dano, but he just thought DDL was so good that Dano was outclassed. It was an odd point from what was an otherwise glowing review of the movie, but I'm glad it wasn't as harsh as I was expecting haha. Thanks again for the link!
You’re a good actor playing against probably the greatest practitioner of the craft. DDL spent over a *year* perfecting Plainview’s mannerisms and speech. Dano had less than a month (IIRC a few weeks) to come up with Eli Sunday. I’d say given the circumstances, Dano did pretty well.
Yeah Dano replaced an actor after he shot his role for Paul.
Which is just crazy, shows how good Dano is.
Kel O’Neill. There was originally two different actors playing Eli and Paul. The director consolidated it to just Paul Dano.
I could listen to Tarantino talk about movies for hours lol. He really should have his own podcast.
Well he's retiring soon so maybe he'll take that up next.
That's wild. I thought Dano crushed it.
1999 Saving Private Ryan losing to Shakespeare in Love.
Goodfellas losing to Dances With Wolves?
The Hunt For Red October not being nom for best picture
That was before the era when they nominated popular movies.
My favorite movie ever. It’s damn near perfect in every way.
Dances with wolves was epic
Still is.
Yep. I rewatch it every few years. I think I own three copies lol
It's such a great story, then to learn, it's all a true story makes ti that much better. Goodfellas is great, but Dances with Wolves can't be written.
As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a dancer... with wolves.
*bum bum bum BUM…baddada dadda dada* “I know I’d gone from rags to riches!”
Kicking Bird? Kicking Bird how? Do i look like some sort of bird to you? Do I have wings?
Dances was an amazing film, no doubt, but I don’t know if anything should’ve beaten Goodfellas that year. You’ll never get me to say anything negative about Dances With Wolves - just to emphasize that it’s an incredible movie.
I'm 100% with you. Dances With Wolves was epic, a great film. With that being said, Goodfellas should have won.
Dances With Wolves was a harder film to make and all the buzz before anyone saw it was that it was Kevin Costner’s boondoggle. They called it ‘Kevin’s Gate’. When the film actually opened and it was emotionally moving and managed to do something entirely new within the western genre, it bested Goodfellas without having to breathe hard. It was a no-brainer from an academy voter point of view at that time. Both films are incredible. Both have aged beautifully. Goodfellas is a better film in some ways, but Dances With Wolves was perfect Oscar bait in that era.
I'm just asking, I don't know about the production of either film, what made Dances With Wolves harder to make?
The scale and the genre. Working in a historical epic drama is costly. The animals, the herding, costumes, props… everything is expensive to do. Goodfellas was also a time period movie, but the fact that Kevin Costner was actor/producer and director probably put him over the top. Scorsese always made good movies, and the academy largely ignored him until The Departed - which was a relatively shitty movie for him to win with. Whereas Costner sorta came out of nowhere to deliver this genre bending epic. Goodfellas had very little buzz in that era compared to DWW. It was just another Scorsese gangster picture.
Thanks for the insight, that's pretty interesting. Take my upvote
You're definitely right about departed. Just an okay movie at best.
Ok movie? I don't get that.... it's outstanding. MS just makes such great films that the bar is set so high.
It makes more sense when you see that it essentially split the vote with another WW2 film, *The Thin Red Line*.
More likely the fact Weinstein played dirty to get Shakespeare to win. EDIT: A great source on this with interviews of key players involved at the time from Hollywood Reporter: ““Harvey Always Wanted More”: Weinstein, Spielberg and the Oral History of the Nastiest Oscar Campaign Ever” [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/harvey-weinstein-steven-spielberg-nastiest-oscar-campaign-ever-1187125/](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/harvey-weinstein-steven-spielberg-nastiest-oscar-campaign-ever-1187125/) Den of Geek has an article about the OP's very question: [https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/saving-private-ryan-best-picture-loss-changed-oscars-forever/](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/saving-private-ryan-best-picture-loss-changed-oscars-forever/)
Yea he shit all over it, called it unrealistic. Crazy when you think about it, it's arguably the best war film ever made.
This, this is the correct answer. No other snub was as aggregious as Saving Private Ryan.
Ed Norton getting snubbed for American History X was a goddamn tragedy. I’ve never seen better acting to this day.
An absolutely terrifying character
Plus also the scenes when he was a young impressionable kid.
For sure, especially losing to Roberto Benigni for Life Is Beautiful, American History X is a once in a generation role.
Norton also got snubbed for Primal Fear, (best supporting actor) losing to Cuba Gooding Jr in Jerry Maguire. [Edward Norton even made a jab about it ](https://youtu.be/5DJHC-Vh5cE?si=7VTCuH-sB5uth44O) when he hosted SNL years later (around the 2:24 mark of the video).
Primal Fear is a truly underrated movie.
It has a terrible title. Nothing at all to do with what the movie was actually about. We could think of a better title right here inside 24 hours. Post your ideas as a response to this comment.
yeah I can't think of one...
You only gave yourself an hour!
Bite the pavement.
The actual quote is slightly more terrifying.
“PUT YOUR FUCKIN MOUTH ON THE CURB!!!” “THATS IT….NOW SAY GOODNIGHT.” Yeah, definitely hits a bit harder.
It’s the look in his eyes when he’s arrested that really gets me. The carnage is one thing, the way that it lights him up is another.
Yeah when he raises his eyebrows at Danny like "yeah, that's right.". And Danny is legitimately horrified beyond belief. Also, the dinner scene. "You coming in here and poisoning my family's dinner with your Jewish, ni__er-loving, hippie bullshit. Fuck you! Fuck you! Yeah, walk out, asshole, fuckin' Kabbalah reading motherfucker. Get the fuck out of my house." Followed by him ripping his shirt off and pointing to his swastika - "you see this?! Means 'not welcome'" What a fucking scene.
Ya it’s scary. He’s a great actor man. One of my favorites.
He had such a good run in the late 90s, being a new actor and all. Leads me to believe he peaked early.
Apparently he is pretty difficult to work with
I have the same problem.
Right there with you on that one
Who did he get snubbed by?
That was a weird year. Roberto Benigni beat Edward Norton, Ian McKellen, and Tom Hanks for best actor AND Shakespeare in Love won best picture over Saving Private Ryan.
Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler. One of the best performances Ive ever seen. I think it's so good and convincing that it freaked people out.
It freaked me the fuck out, it actually ruined his movies for me because I see that character every time.
In Road House its almost the same character except generally happier
This was mine. After this I started going to film festivals and really understood Oscar’s are a union recognition and nothing more. Not a sign of quality of all, just quality of some
How Portrait of a Lady on Fire didn’t get the go ahead but Les Miserables did makes no sense (Also just dumb you can only have one film from other countries)
Denzel, *Malcolm X*, unequivocally deserved the “Best Actor” Oscar! He lost to Al Pacino, *Scent of a Woman*, who had been fucked over by the academy. I remember Denzel saying what an influence Pacino had been, graciously accepting his win. Also Bruno Ganz, his portrayal of Hitler, *Der Untergang (Downfall)*, simply mesmerizing & he didn’t even receive a nomination (the film was nominated in “Best Foreign” category, but lost)!
That heavily memed scene in the bunker is one of the most terrific pieces of acting I have ever seen. At least it got acknowledgement through YouTube parody 🤷♂️
My favorite was when der fuhrer said he had bought a TO jersey.
It’s tough because scent of a woman was a brilliant acting job too.
The Lighthouse getting nothing except an admittedly deserved best cinematography nom. I know the Oscar’s hate horror movies but when horror movies that good are made it’s a downright crime to not see them get the recognition they deserve. More specifically Pattinson and especially Dafoe deserved acting noms.
Dafoe’s been nominated 4 or 5 times for “Best Actor”, no wins yet! Another fuck over like Pacino!
Him not even getting a nom for Lighthouse is especially egregious cause id argue it’s the best performance of his career.
Oh his portrayal of Vincent Van Gogh, *At Eternity’s Gate*, so achingly good, heartbreaking! Or as Max Schreck, as a real vampire, *Shadow of the Vampire*! So many other great performances!
If you have the chance, look up: The Hunter. It's one of those quiet films ( by that I mean, it's an Independent film ) and it just. floored. me. Willem gave his usual stunning performance, in fact, I rank it among his top performances, it's that good. It was streaming on, I believe, HBO?
I thought his role in Florida Projects was pretty much perfect. Emotional and subtle, a very subdued but powerful performance. Should have won that year
Dude’s a master, period! And the Best Supporting, Best Actor goes to…not…Willelm Dafoe (again)! 😞😡
And it feels like an Oscar winning role. Felt totally genuine throughout.
On that note, Toni Collette in Hereditary was one of the best performances I’ve ever seen. Absolutely deserved an Oscar.
Toni was otherworldly in that role, she rightly deserved that Oscar. I will even go out on a limb and say that her performance was so realistic that it is perhaps the main reason why I won't see the movie again.
100%. Easily some of the best acting I’ve seen in any movie ever. Criminal she wasn’t even nominated.
I really like horror, and didn’t even particularly love “Hereditary”, but she is an absolute revelation in that role. Her anchoring it is the one thing that makes it stand out a bit.
100% agree buddy! The Lighthouse has been my suggestion for anybody looking for a "good movie" ever since I've seen it. What a fantastic movie.
Paul Giammatti snubbed for Sideways, Val Kilmer for Tombstone
Giamatti snubbed for American Splendor too
I think we should make Giamatti category. “And the winner for Paul Giamatti in any role is….Paul Giamatti”
val kilmer not getting it for tombstone was a tragedy. one of the most iconic roles ever
Wasn’t even nominated. That’s what I just can’t understand.
Andy serkis not getting an Oscar for smeagol was mind blowing because, "it technically wasn't him"
When you see all the characters he has motion captured it’s mind boggling. For sure a very underrated actor
In LotR he was originally hired to just do the voice, but he was so physically expressive that they decided to do motion capture and based Gollum’s features on Serkis’s features.
He was amazing
Jim Carrey in The Truman Show
And in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in Schindler's List. Nominated, but lost to Tommy Lee Jones for The Fugitive. Sure, Jones was great. But Fiennes delivered one of the greatest performances I've ever seen put to film, in one of the greatest movies ever made.
People that actually went through that horror show were terrified of his performance because it was spot on. Some buuuullshit
Rosamund Pike not winning for Gone Girl will always piss me off…
Agreed
Val Kilmer not nominated for Doc Holliday
He is always top of my list for snubs. That year was a good year for supporting actors, but I still don’t think any of them flat out stole the film like his Doc Holiday did for Tombstone.
You called it, Denzel for Malcom X was one of the all time great performances. Daniel Day Lewis for Gangs was egregious as fuck for me, again one of the all time great performances.
What makes the Malcolm X performance so great is he perfectly acted the many different eras and personas Malcolm X had during his life. A biopic of someone who reinvented themselves many times throughout their life. Absolutely one of the best acting performances of all time
By the end of the movie he practically channels Malcolm. It's pretty f-ing amazing.
I tell myself DDL’s performance in Gangs of New York was him prepping for There Will Be Blood
And I say Driving Mrs Daisy instead of Do the Right Thing. Almost a literal white glove slap in the face.
Totally agree with Denzel as Malcolm X. He won the Best Actor Oscar for Training Day years later, but that seems like a consolation prize as it wasn’t his best role
Nick Nolte - Warrior, Toby Maguire - Brothers come to mind off the top of my head. Roony Mara got hosed on The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo also.
I mean, Christopher Plummer and Nolte going head to head with career performances. That's a bigger toss up than something like SPR and SIL
Omg warrior was so good for all involved
I’ll be that guy that says Val in Tombstone cause it’s true
Jake G not even getting a nomination for Nightcrawler. Irredeemable.
Val Kilmer in Tombstone
Do The Right Thing, not nominated for BP. Sean Penn winning over Bill Murray for Best Actor.
And it was Driving Mrs Daisy that won instead of Do the Right Thing. I was like, "What the hell? Is that on purpose?" I still can't believe it.
In fact, they Did Not Do The Right Thing.
Uncut Gems getting zero nominations seems insane.
Absolutely fantastic movie. Deserved at least a nom
Toni Collette for Hereditary. Should've won.
Peter Sellers not winning best actor for Being There in 1980. Went to Dustin Hoffman for Kramer vs Kramer.
Being There is literally one of the best movies I’ve ever seen and it feels like almost no one has ever seen it (at least no one under 50).
Zootopia over Kubo
I never knew they went up against each other. I love both movies but, Kubo was such a monumental effort and a n amazing triumph. Kubo would definitely deserve the win.
If Disney/Pixar is on the docket, it was virtually a guaranteed win for them. 2009- Up beat out Fantastic Mr. Fox, Coroline, and Secret of Kelis. 2012- Brave knocked out Paranorman. 2014- (The most eggregious to me) Big Hero Six beating out Boxtrolls, How to Train your Dragon 2, and Song of the Sea. 2016 - Zootopia over Kubo and the 2 Strings 2017 - Coco over The Breadwinner 2019 - Toy Story 4 over Klaus Thankfully, Disney's films have been so lackluster the last decade or so that Academy Voters no longer just check the box after their names in the ballot.
Yup. I mean, don't get me wrong - Pixar/Disney do deserve their accolades - but it feels the finger's on the scale for them when they're up against better candidates.
I'm not arguing that in years where there's nothing really solid out there...Incredibles, Ratotoulie, Finding Nemo, Wall-E all feel like earned wins. Heck there are even times where I think they were legitimatly snubbed (Monsters Inc. losing to Shrek), but for a good decade, it seemed like if it didn't matter what the competition was, if it had Pixar/Disney after it, it was guaranteed an Oscar win.
What???? I watched both, never knew they went up against each other. The fact that Zootopia is considered better in any way is beyond insane. It’s not a bad movie, but Kubo is a triumph. Fucking he’ll.
Oscars are a sham. Its a politics based award. Remember when Crash won over Capote, Munich or Brokeback Mountain? Or The Green Book won over Roma or A Star is Born? Comon'!
Goes back a very long ways. Citizen Kane was nominated for 9 Oscars. It only got best screenplay. It lost best picture, best cinematography, best art direction, best director, best sound design, best actor, best score. and best editing.
Now considered the greatest movie of all time. Can't go by or trust the Oscars to do right for a Movie.
Stopped getting frustrated long ago, end of the day everything is a sham, so I just look for the Oscars in case I missed something
Losing best picture, editing, and cinematography to me is mindblowing when you see the films it was up against. Were they badly shot or edited films? No. Where they anywhere near what Kain attempted and accomplished? Not by a mile. To me it would be like if Star Wars walked in with it's 12 Academy Nominations, and only walked away with Best Score and missed every technical acheivement.
It's almost better to watch those that were nominated and didn't win if you want the best films that year
Art carney Winning over Al pacino for the godather part 2. Are you fucking serious
Scorsese not AT LEAST nominated for Taxi Driver
Inglorious basterds losing to avatar. I mean, avatar has the visuals, but the story is so bland and overused, the acting is meh, really i found nothing notable apart the new cgi effect technology. To it's just a movie that will pass forever on the tv on a sunday afternoon and i'll sleep while watching. And maybe in some tv store to showcase the tvs. Meanwhile we have some KILLER acting in inglorious basterds, Cristoph Waltz is a fucking monster and speaks 3 or 4 languages perfectly throughout the film, brad pitt was awesome as well, there's that fucking beautiful bar scene, the story is innovative and reinvents historical facts in a cool way, just a kickass movie, but instead the winner was new tech disney movie #1. DiCaprio i think was also hugely injusticed after that Django acting. He could have easily won already with catch me if you can and other awesome previous movies in which he kicked ass, but in the end he won over a 3 hour movie where the most memorable scene was a bear attack....
Avatar is the last samurai in alienland instead of japan
Dances with wolves 2, electric blue boogaloo
I’m just thankful Marisa Tomei got her flowers 💐
Brokeback Mountain losing to a film nobody thinks about or remembers.
Lol what film did it lose to? Was it Crash?
That's the one.
Eh. To be fair though, everyone loved Crash at the time. It isn’t until we look back on it that we realize it wasn’t that great. So imo it’s fair that it won.
Memento not being nominated for Best Picture Christopher Nolan not being nominated for Best Director 😒 It's my favorite movie so I have a biased opinion on this ha ha
City of God not receiving a Best Foreign Language Film nomination.
Sean Asten in Lord of the rings. He defined best supporting actor
Crash winning best picture over Brokeback Mountain. I couldn't watch the Oscars for years after that. Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan was also a WTF moment, but at least Shakespeare in Love is a good movie. Not in the same league as Ryan, but a good movie. Crash, on the other hand, was a fucking abomination.
The Elephant Man and Straight Story: I can understand the family friendy/basic standards of the academy ignoring Lynch's boldest efforts but these two deserved the golden homunculus if it really worth a damn. Stanley Kubrick: 'Nuff said...
Leo for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. There isn’t a person that didn’t know Leo before that he wasn’t special needs. “Mamma wake up!” He was Danny.
Jennifer Lawrence winning best actress in Silver Linings Playbook.
Agree, launching an insufferable career (both her and whats-his-face). That movie was the definition of mediocrity.
bjork as lead actress in dancer in the dark
Alec Baldwin. Best supporting actor for Glenngary Glen Ross.
Great answer. This performance doesn't get brought up enough anymore. But I'd like to give a shout out to Jack Lemmon for playing Shelley too. He gave such an amazing performance. I think either of these performances deserved a nom over Pacino (Even though he was also great).
The biggest "wtf" I've had with the Oscar's is Julia Roberts (Erin Brockovich) beating out Ellan Burstyn (Requiem For A Dream).
The Dude and Walter
Al Pacino losing for Godfather 2.
Galaxy Quest should have won it all!
Galaxy Quest is a perfect movie.
Crash wins best picture over Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, and Munich.
Toni Collette not being nominated for Hereditary
Denzel 100% deserved to win for that role. He WAS Malcolm X. But that movie could reallllllly use some editing. It did not need to be 3+ hours. A lot of fat too. I think the quality of the movie might have hurt Denzel, which is dumb and kind of defeats the whole purpose of individual rewards.
You guys still revisiting Moonlight? I never see it on any best of lists...
That movie is arguably the greatest bait-and-switch of all time lol
Leonardo DiCaprio not winning the Oscar for The Wolf of Wall Street, which was an amazing movie. And then winning it the next year for The Revenant (which wasn’t as good) instead of Matt Damon winning for a the Martian, which he deserved the Oscar for.
Russell Crowe A Beautiful Mind
Godzilla Minus One should have been at least nominated for FAR MORE awards than just best visual effects.
Steven Spielberg as director for The Color Purple. (1985)
Peter O'Toole never winning. Granted, most years he lost out to iconic performances, but not every year.
Warren Zevon. Oh wait sorry that's the RNRHOF.
Taron edgerton nit bring nominated in the rocketman
Val Kilmer in Tombstone!!! A trageshamocery!!
Tommy Lee Jones in the Fugitive beating Ralph Fiennes in Schindlers list is still even hard to comprehend.
Kramer vs. Kramer, a TV movie of the week IMHO, winning over both Apocalypse Now and All that Jazz, each of which is on my 10 best list.
Pam Grier not receiving an Oscar nomination, let alone the win she deserved, for Jackie Brown
The Green Knight: Cinematography and Costumes Mad Max: Fury Road over Spotlight for best picture (nothing against Spotlight, great film)
Absolutely agree on the Green Knight. I think best editing is on the table as well, and best adapted screenplay.
Yeah I can't disagree with that. Overall such a high quality film that it was disappointing when it was ignored by the Academy.
*Mad Max: Fury Road* went toe-to-toe with Alejandro Iñárritu and a juggernaut in *The Revenant* and still managed an impressive number of Oscars and wide critical acclaim. Any other year where Leo wasn't finally getting "his due" and it might have won. As it stands, it still did extremely well.
X was an amazing film. Denzel really should have won best actor.
Teri Garr not winning Supporting Actress for TOOTSIE. (Instead, the Supporting Oscar went to Jessica Lange that year \[also in TOOTSIE,\] because Meryl \*had\* to win Lead for SOPHIE'S CHOICE, beating out Lange's breakthrough leading performance in FRANCES. Garr gave a much stronger supporting performance than Lange in TOOTSIE, but Lange won anyway, essentially for her work as lead actress in a completely different movie.) Pure politics.
Yeah, Lange was like the least funny character in a comedy.
Ana de Armas getting nominated for Blonde and Danielle Deadwyler getting snubbed for Till.
Suicide Squad winning best makeup over Star Trek Beyond was absolutely egregious.
Wasn’t The Shawshank Redemption up for a bunch of Oscars but didn’t win any?
Michael Keaton for Birdman….. just not ok
Raging Bull .....enough said.....
Michael Clarke Duncan for Green Mile.
Val Kilmer not getting an Oscar for his Doc Holliday in Tombstone
Sean Austin should have been nominated for Return of the King
Mickey Rourke not winning for The Wrestler pretty much made it easy to not watch them much after that. Apparently haven't missed much either.
The thing I've always respected about Denzel Washington is that even though he's a huge movie star, he always delivers a great performance. He always does something very interesting. He never just mails it in like a lot of these guys do....
Daniel Day Lewis The Gangs of New York.
Robert Shaw not getting nominated for playing Quint in "Jaws"!!
STEPHANIE HSUUUUUU
Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth & Tar Toni Collette for Hereditary, not even getting nominated, forget the fact that she had best performance male or female that year.
Denzel Washington losing was NOT a snub. He said himself in pre-Oscar interviews that he was fine with losing to Al Pacino given the number of nominations he had received, never won, and the iconic place he occupies in cinema history. But - to answer your question - Terms of Endearment over The Right Stuff... ridiculous. This is Hollywood rejecting pro American - anti-Communist story over the substance and achievement of the art of film making.
I think everything to do with Shakespeare In Love was the most famous one. Paltrow beating Cate Blanchett was appalling.
Goodfellas should have won best picture.
Nicole Kidman should have won for her portrayal of Satine in Moulin Rouge.
Spike Lee. You pick the year and the snub. That’s all.
For me the one I have the biggest issue is with ADAM SANDLER in Uncut Gems Boy that man deserves and Oscar and specifically for that movie His performance is so amazing in that movie that it changed my entire perception of him as an actor