- Joined
- Feb 25, 2012
- Messages
- 7,615
- Reaction score
- 0
Annie Hall over Star Wars
Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan
Chicago over The Two Towers
Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan
Chicago over The Two Towers
Worst Oscar winners/ Biggest snubs
- Thread starter LEWIS540
- Start date
- Joined
- May 4, 2012
- Messages
- 11,851
- Reaction score
- 7,804
didnt sandra bullock win one? i honestly think she's a bad actress
- Joined
- Feb 25, 2012
- Messages
- 7,615
- Reaction score
- 0
Yes, for her leading role in The Blind Side, over that black thing from Precious.
- Joined
- Feb 25, 2012
- Messages
- 7,615
- Reaction score
- 0
Let this sink in - Three 6 Mafia won an Oscar before Scorsese. 
- Joined
- Jan 14, 2010
- Messages
- 102,078
- Reaction score
- 32,397
- Joined
- Jun 10, 2011
- Messages
- 3,807
- Reaction score
- 0
Don't know if mentioned yet (after 29 pages, probably was), but Julia Roberts's generic "Strong Woman" performance in 'Erin Brockovich' over Ellen Burstyn brilliant performance in 'Requiem for a Dream'.
- Joined
- Jan 20, 2002
- Messages
- 35,824
- Reaction score
- 30,495
Literally 8 posts ago........ ;-)
- Joined
- Jan 26, 2009
- Messages
- 5,666
- Reaction score
- 0
I think world cinema has just as many (if not more) classics than American cinema, yet a foreign language film never won best picture, thats a joke.
Also, they have this trend that they give oscar some directors waaaaay after they made their best works. When the popularity of the brand of "Scorsese" started to get close to the brand of "OSCAR", they quickly threw one award to him, for Departed. Which was a great film, no doubt, but not comparable to the masters best work.
The question wasnt if Scorsese has an Oscar yet, but if Oscar has Scorsese. Watch out for Tarantino getting an Oscar for something thats not half as good or groundbreaking as Pulp Fiction.
Every now and then they get things right (this happened mostly around the 70s tho, but that year that had Black Swan was also strong. And so is this year), but overall too much politics, pretentiousness, USA-bias, and more than anything, business decisions to put any weight on the Academy Awards, in my opinion
Also, they have this trend that they give oscar some directors waaaaay after they made their best works. When the popularity of the brand of "Scorsese" started to get close to the brand of "OSCAR", they quickly threw one award to him, for Departed. Which was a great film, no doubt, but not comparable to the masters best work.
The question wasnt if Scorsese has an Oscar yet, but if Oscar has Scorsese. Watch out for Tarantino getting an Oscar for something thats not half as good or groundbreaking as Pulp Fiction.
Every now and then they get things right (this happened mostly around the 70s tho, but that year that had Black Swan was also strong. And so is this year), but overall too much politics, pretentiousness, USA-bias, and more than anything, business decisions to put any weight on the Academy Awards, in my opinion
