Worst Oscar Winners

[Zed]

Ok my friends, I want to hear you.

Have you ever tought that a movie, an actor or a director does not deserves the Oscar?

There are some of my recent examples:

Best movie: Shakespare in Love (what was that?)

Best suporting actress: Angelina Jolie (I still think it most go to Chloe Sevigni)

Best movie: The English Pacient (I don't know what you think, but I can sleep watching this movie).

Best suporting actor: Michael Cane (The Ciderhouse rules).

Best actress: Jessica Tandy (Driven Miss Daisy, just look the other nominees).

Best suporting actor: Jack Palance (On a 10 minutes performance).

Best suporting actress: Marisa Tomei (What's next, Sarah Michelle Gellar?).

11 Oscars to Titanic????? (No comments)

Anyone else?

[TobyDammit]

Zed, there is already a thread on this subject out there now. Still a good topic though.

[Zed]

The last thing I want to be is a judge. Your personal opinions, that's all I would like to read.
I've give you mine, then I hope you all write about what you think.

[DaN]

How could ANY movie win over CITIZEN KANE? That's just wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Shakespeare in Love. No, sorry buy no.

And if Gladiator wins anything close to best Picture, Somethings going down. I mean, Gladiator kickes ass, but it's not the Oscar type of kickass.

[Jezka]

Michael Caine did NOT deserve Best Supporting. Michael Clarke Duncan or Jude Law did. MCD made me cry in Green Mile, and I just re-watched The Talented Mr. Ripley (for the millionth time--I love that movie) and went, "*damn,* Jude Law is good."

[love broker]

Caine is GOD

[Deckard]

Hands down Titanic & Forrest Gump as best picture.
For actors anyone of Tom Hanks oscars were the result of good PR not acting.

Female wise Marisa Tomei was never Oscar material. Personally Ive always thought Meryl Streep was a soapy actor who happened to do films, how can she be best actress ever.

So many Ill be back & rant later

[DireWolf]

Shakespeare in Love better than Saving Private Ryan? I want some of the stuff the Oscar people shoot.

The Oscars are like critics, sometimes they get it really right, and sometimes they don't.

Until they start respecting the Sci-Fi genre as a serious artistic genre they don't have much credibility with me.

[AntonioDelLago]

Michael Caine should NOT have won the 1999 Best Supporting Actor Oscar. Haley Joel Osment should have won for "The Sixth Sense", and Tom Cruise should have been nominated in the Best Actor category for "Magnolia".

Also, Annette Bening should have won for "American Beauty" instead of Hilary Swank for "Boys Don't Cry". Bening was also robbed of a nomination in 1991 for "Bugsy", but the Academy instead nominated Bette Midler in "For The Boys"? The Divine Miss M, she ain't! She looked more like the deceased John Waters staple DIVINE!!!

Nicole Kidman was robbed in 1995 for "To Die For". Ditto Rupert Everett for "My Best Friend's Wedding" in 1997.

Cate Blanchett should have beaten Gwyneth Paltrow in the 1998 Best Actress race.

Bill Murray should have been nominated in 1998 for RUSHMORE.

There's no way that Robin Williams should have won the Supporting Actor Oscar in 1997 over Burt Reynolds and Robert Forster.



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[KingKes]

The Postman (Il Postino) - Luis Enrique Bacalov over Apollo 13 AND (!) Braveheart by James Horner Best Original Dramatic Score. The biggest fault ever made. The two nominations obviously splitted the votes for James but this is just a big nightmare.

[Gore 4 All]

Have to agree on that.
Braveheart's score is some of the best movie music ever made. James Horner is one of my favorite movie composers ever. (Along with John Williams, Hans Zimmer and Danny Elfman)

[edonline]

One of the BIGGEST OscarTM ripoffs of recent years had to be "The Opposite of Sex". Christina Ricci should have been nominated for Best Actress, Lisa Kudrow for Best Supporting Actress and the film should have been nominated for Best Original Screenplay. Ricci did win a Golden Globe though, if that's any consolation.

[Zed]

Antoni, I've almost agree in all with you.
But I still think that Hillary Swank deserves that Oscar, and also deserves it Miss Chloe Sevigni.

[loner]

I'm going back a little farther than most of you have but Dances With Wolves winning best picture over Goodfellas is by far the biggest Oscar injustice ever. How can that movie (or any movie) be better than Goodfellas? Too many old ladies in the Acadamy I think.

[*veers*]

The worst night in oscar was the 80/81 awards. David Lynch nominated for best director for The Elephant Man up against Martin Scorsese for Raging Bull.
And the winner is, Robert Redford for Ordinary People.
WTF???!!!

[Tadeas Petr]

I agree with the Shakespeare in Love, each of the other nominated movies was actually better (I would prefer Elisabeth)

Also, Gwyneth Paltrow won the most undeserved Oscar ever, beating the amazing performance of cate Blanchett.

In 1996, The English Patient won over Fargo. It was not that bad, but Fargo is a masterpiece.

If I remember it right, some time ago, Rocky won over Taxi Driver. Ugh.

And finally, as I expect, Gladiator will win this year and that will be quite undeserved , because this is just a cool action movie (although visually stunning) and no way deserves special attention like this. Why they didn't nominate Scott for Blade runner instead twenty years ago ?

The main thing that prevents this movie to be the Oscar quality is the stupid script and punny dialogues. Ironically, the script was nominated as well. And if it will win, well, than this will be THE MOST UNDESERVED OSCAR OF ALL TIME !!!

[Brother_Mark]

Best Actress: Helen Hunt
I have a thing against her.
Agree about Shakespeare in love -- over Saving Private Ryan, what was that about? Do they have something against Dreamworks or Speilberg?

If Gladiator wins this year (over Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Traffic) it would be a gross injustice. And what was the deal with Chocolat -- it is a down right bad movie. But Russel Crowe should win this year though -- for last year's performance in The Insider.

[Gia]

Gwyneth!
I still can't believe she won it. That is the biggest Academy's mistake ever...
And also Kim Basinger...OH MY GOD!
But I think that Angelina deserved her Oscar...Damn, she is GOOD!

[Ghostface 2000]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Zed:
Ok my friends, I want to hear you.


Have you ever tought that a movie, an actor or a director does not deserves the Oscar?


There are some of my recent examples:


Best suporting actress: Marisa Tomei (What's next, Sarah Michelle Gellar?).

</font>Leave sexy Sarah *ALONE*

[AntonioDelLago]

There's no way that Roberto Begnini should have beaten the likes of Tom Hanks, Nick Nolte, Ian McKellan and Edward Norton for Best Actor in 1998. Those four performances were excellent, and the Academy continues to include the obligatory foreign language actor, while ignoring the talents of American actors. Case in point: The inclusion of Javier Bardem in this year's Oscar race, while Hollywood royalty such as Michael Douglas was overlooked (for both WONDER BOYS and TRAFFIC).

[falconfilms]

Antonio, have you seen "Before Night Falls"? It may be the best performance by a leading actor EVER. Seriously, phenomenal work, and I went into it with the same attitude.

Past slights...

During the year of the Fisher King, everyone talked about how Robin Williams was robbed for best supporting actor. That may be, but in my opinion, the one robbed was Jeff Bridges, who turned in a phenomenal, nuanced performance that was so good and so subtle, most people didn't even notice it.

Same story for Tom Cruise in Rainman.

As far as Best Picture...

I'm not even going to go into "Titanic"
I understand that the Oscar tends to go to epic films...However, I for one do not equate the term "epic" with "quality". For example: How the hell did:

Chariots of Fire beat Raiders of the Lost Ark?

Rocky win over Taxi Driver?

Kramer vs. Kramer beat Apocalypse Now? (this is one I'll never understand as it defies even Oscar logic)

Ordinary People beat Raging Bull?

Out of Africa win over Witness?

Dances with Wolves beat Goodfellas?

AND OF COURSE - My own personal favorite...


How in the name of all that is holy did Forrest Gump win over Pulp Fiction AND the Shawshank Redemption?

Apparently Academy members all have the same IQ as the title character.


Before I go, and at the risk of being unpopular, I feel that I must step in and defend "Shakespeare in Love". In my opinion, overall, Shakespeare works as a film better than "Saving Private Ryan" does. Yes, the opening sequence to Ryan is the most exciting and disturbing thing ever recreated for the screen, and Yes, Ryan is a more "important" film. However, I believe that the overall pacing of the second and third acts of the film were way off, and the framing device of the gravesite was so overtly manipulative that I actually found it offensive. 50 years from now, I believe that "Shakespeare in Love" will still be remembered as a classic, timeless film, and that "Saving Private Ryan" will be a footnote in Steven Spielberg's career.

And to quote Dennis Miller...

Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.

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