Rewrite Oscar history
As the winning names are pulled from sealed envelopes and announced at each year's Academy Awards ceremony, you probably say "Yeah, I expected that" almost as often as you let out a "Huh - Whaaaat?!?"
They say hindsight is 20/20 -- now's your chance to look back at the past quarter-century and see if the winners stood the test of time, or if you disagreed with them in the first place. Entertainment Weekly is running a "re-vote" with both industry professionals and the public to "Recall the Gold", beginning with the controversial 1998 awards where SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE successfully campaigned against the expected victor SAVING PRIVATE RYAN.
Source: EW
Extra Tidbit: I'm sure people are already cheering or contorting in uproar for when THE DARK KNIGHT wins/loses next year.







































































































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As much as I sometimes wish I could rewrite the Oscars, it kind of feels futile, as many of th emore infamous ones like "Shakespeare in Love" and "Dances With Wolves" don't piss me off nearly as much as some. (Shakespeare wasn't great, but I had problems with "Saving Private Ryan" portraying all Nazis as evil when it's supposed to be so...
As much as I sometimes wish I could rewrite the Oscars, it kind of feels futile, as many of th emore infamous ones like "Shakespeare in Love" and "Dances With Wolves" don't piss me off nearly as much as some. (Shakespeare wasn't great, but I had problems with "Saving Private Ryan" portraying all Nazis as evil when it's supposed to be some even-handed war-is-hell type thing like "Platoon" was for Vietnam)"
What the hell? Did you mean Germans (who, let be honest, were massively behind Third Reich) or Nazis? The nice folks did not become National Socialists in the Hitler's Germany. Or you want to re-write history? What's that non-sense about even?
As for Vietnam - do I have to accept Oliver's Stone's bullshit about that war? We know his pro-leftists point of view and I more agree with JFK. That war was about stopping worldwide Soviet expansion. Nothing even about it.
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I also would've liked to have seen Naomi Watts nominated for King Kong [she pulled off such a convincingly emotional performance considering she was acting against practically nothing] and Marcia Gay Harden for The Mis...
I also would've liked to have seen Naomi Watts nominated for King Kong [she pulled off such a convincingly emotional performance considering she was acting against practically nothing] and Marcia Gay Harden for The Mist. She is one of the best and most terrifying villains I've seen.
Dark Knight should a nom for Ledger and cinematography, but definitely not for best picture.
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And I would rather watch 'The Thin Red Line', 'Shakespeare in Love' or 'Elizabeth' (in that order) again before having to sit through anything other than the first half hour of 'Saving Private Ryan'.
And, even if that weren't the case, I wouldn't trade anything for the Wall-E, for one, was better than 'The Dark Knight.'
And I would rather watch 'The Thin Red Line', 'Shakespeare in Love' or 'Elizabeth' (in that order) again before having to sit through anything other than the first half hour of 'Saving Private Ryan'.
And, even if that weren't the case, I wouldn't trade anything for the [link] look on my Spielberg-fanboy friend's face when Ford opened that envelope and said 'Shakespeare in Love'. That, friends, was worth more than any useless awards.
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What I'll take issue with are a few more recent wins. "Triplets of Belville" Best Animated Feature
When Philip Seymour Hoffman won for "Capote," maybe I was just sick of biopics, but I knew it would happen, and I really think I would've felt better if Heath Ledger won it.
Toss up between Denzel Washington and Tom Wilkinson for "Training Day" and "In the Bedroom," respectively.
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Oh and the choice most people probably will talking shit about is Titanic, although that one deserved it. But yeah, what ever.
Oh and the choice most people probably will talking shit about is Titanic, although that one deserved it. But yeah, what ever.
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But I kind of agree about the Oscar's being worthless sometimes. Although, I get all excited when my own favorite films win, so maybe I don't know.
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Also, take that Best Picture award away from the abysmal "The Return of the King" an give it to "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" ASAP.
Best Picture 2005 needs to go either to "Munich" or to "Kingdom of Heaven" the director's cut.
"Training Day" i...
Also, take that Best Picture award away from the abysmal "The Return of the King" an give it to "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" ASAP.
Best Picture 2005 needs to go either to "Munich" or to "Kingdom of Heaven" the director's cut.
"Training Day" is a better movie than "A Beautiful Mind" any way you slice it. But my pick would be for "Hannibal" which is a much better film than the rather mundane "The Silence of the Lambs."
How "Traffic" lost to "Gladiator" I will never understand.
It's absolutely criminal that "American Beauty" beat out "The Insider."
"L.A. Confidential" kicks the ass of the bloated "Titanic."
The sheer audacity of Kenneth Branagh's "Hamlet" makes it deserve Best Picture over the bipolar "The English Patient."
Take the caveman, sausage-fest, melodrama "Braveheart" off that best picture mantel, take the cup off your tiny weiners, step up, be a man, and give "Sense and Sensibility" the award it deserved. And if you can't do that, at least give it to a manly movie that was actually good... "Heat."
Ditto "Little Women" or "Nobody's Fool" over "Forrest Fucking Gump." Or if you must give it to a movie that was nominated, give it to "Quiz Show." (All you "Pulp Fiction" fanatics can give it a rest).
As much as I'm not a fan of "Schindler's List" there wasn't a whole lotta competition that year. So even though "A Perfect World" was better, I'll allow Steven his little victory.
"The Silence of the Lambs" over "JFK"? Over "Grand Canyon"? Who was passing around the hash pipe that year? (How else do we explain the whole Marisa Tomei fiasco?)
And "The Dark Knight" can go away now.
And "Goodfellas" was a bore.
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If I could re-write history though, I would have had Goodfellas over Dances With Wolves.
Also Costner over Scorsese in Directing that same year. I'm not hating on Co...
If I could re-write history though, I would have had Goodfellas over Dances With Wolves.
Also Costner over Scorsese in Directing that same year. I'm not hating on Costner or his movie, DWW was really good...Just not nearly as good as Goodfellas.