Movies: What are the Biggest Oscar Snubs Ever?

[Ben Grimm]

What are the Biggest Oscar Snubs Ever? Whadda ya got?

Coppola not winning Best Director for the Godfather?

Shakespeare In Love winning Best Picture over American History X, Elizabeth, Life is Beautiful, The Thin Red Line, and Saving Private Ryan (just added to the Netflix instant que)?

Kramer vs. Kramer winning Best Picture over Apocalypse Now?

Dances with Wolves winning Best Picture over Good Fellas?

The English Patient winning Best Picture over Fargo?

Taxi Driver & Network losing to Rocky for Best Picture?

A Clockwork Orange not winning any major awards? Neither Director nor Screenplay (both were credited to Kubrick)

Pulp Fiction & The Shawshank Redemption losing to Forrest Gump for Best Picture?

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[Bee Sheriff]

Kanye West

 

[Warden of the North]

The Dark Knight should have won Best Picture, it wasnt even nominated

 

[BonMorrison]

I can't say ever because I am not a historian but in recent history:

- Brokeback Mountain losing to Crash
- Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) losing to Sean Penn (Milk)
- The Social Network losing to The Kings Speech (this one is more subject to debate than the two above)
- Michael Keaton (Birdman) losing to Eddie Redmayne (Theory of Everything)
- Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls) losing to Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

As someone who really really liked The King's Speech, history will look at it winning over The Social Network as one of the bigger snubs in recent times.

Also, the fact that none of The Godfather's THREE nominees for Best Supporting Actor won. I've never seen Cabaret so I can't attest to it specifically, but you gotta think that one of those three shoulda snagged it.

EDIT: BonMorrison beat me to Social Network. I also second his Michael Keaton shout.

 

[sully1410]

Brokeback Mountain was awful. There was no redeeming qualities. At all. Well then acting was alright I guess...but there was nothing else about that movie that made it good.

If we are talking about snubs though...let's take a look at all the historic roles that Al Pacino should have won for but didn't.

 

[Eisen]

I can't say ever because I am not a historian but in recent history:

- Brokeback Mountain losing to Crash
- Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler) losing to Sean Penn (Milk)
- The Social Network losing to The Kings Speech (this one is more subject to debate than the two above)
- Michael Keaton (Birdman) losing to Eddie Redmayne (Theory of Everything)
- Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls) losing to Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)

Honestly, I have no issue with all of the decisions you mention, especially Little Miss Sunshine.

 

[sully1410]

Honestly, I have no issue with all of the decisions you mention, especially Little Miss Sunshine.

I dunno. Alan Arion was pretty friggen funny in this one.

 

[BonMorrison]

Brokeback Mountain was awful. There was no redeeming qualities. At all. Well then acting was alright I guess...but there was nothing else about that movie that made it good.

Yeah but you also liked American Sniper.

(I'm just joking btw, don't get mad. )

 

[kihei]

The worst: 2008 in the "foreign language" best film category: Departures (admittedly a good little movie) winning over three exceptional films--Revanche, Waltz with Bashir and The Class.

I have big problems with:

Forest Gump winning over Pulp Fiction
Crash winning over Brokeback Mountain
Rocky winning over Taxi Driver
Titanic winning over LA Confidential
In the Heat of the Night winning over Bonny and Clyde
Gladiator winning over Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

I have zero problems with:

Shakespeare in Love winning over Saving Private Ryan (though I would have voted for The Thin Red Line)
The English Patient winning over Fargo (both fine movies)
Ordinary People winning over Raging Bull (both fine movies)

 

[Oscar Acosta]

Brokeback Mountain was awful. There was no redeeming qualities. At all. Well then acting was alright I guess...but there was nothing else about that movie that made it good.

If we are talking about snubs though...let's take a look at all the historic roles that Al Pacino should have won for but didn't.

Brokeback Mountain is a great movie.

 

[Belamorte]

What are the Biggest Oscar Snubs Ever? Whadda ya got?

Shakespeare In Love winning Best Picture over Saving Private Ryan?

Kramer vs. Kramer winning Best Picture over Apocalypse Now?

Dances with Wolves winning Best Picture over Good Fellas?

The English Patient winning Best Picture over Fargo?

Taxi Driver & Network losing to Rocky for Best Picture?

A Clockwork Orange not winning any major awards? Neither Director nor Screenplay (both were credited to Kubrick)

Pulp Fiction & The Shawshank Redemption losing to Forrest Gump for Best Picture?

1. Well, other than the first 20ish? minutes of Saving Private Ryan the movie is bleh (typical Hollywood movie that tries too hard past the 'shock value' of the first part). I have never seen Shakespeare In Love.


2. Apocalypse Now dragged and dragged, Yeah it had good performances but it was far too long and boring by the end (I have tried to watch it many times and it is a bore). Kramer vs Kramer I remember watching and it kept entertained (many years ago when movies came on TV).


3. I am with you there.


4. Never seen The English Patient but I do not get the appeal of Coen Brothers movies (I have tried and while Fargo is 'ok' I do not get them).


5, Rocky was very good - perhaps it does not hold up but it deserved it at the time.


6. A Clockwork Orange is another that I do not get the appeal of (I know I am not artsy/film buff but outside of a few scenes it is a drag like most, actually all Kubrick films).



7. While Pulp Fiction and Shawshank are a couple of my favorite films ever, Pulp Fiction has very little appeal to the masses. Shawshank did but Forrest Gump had much more appeal.


Flame on....

 

[b1e9a8r5s]

Saving Private Ryan is an amazing movie.

I feel like it's become popular to **** on Forrest Gump. That was a really good movie. Yes, Shawshank and Pulp Fiction are better. But I don't think Forest Gump is on the level of the Kings Speech that people don't even remember anymore.

 

[johnny_rudeboy]

Was Shawshank redemption, Saving private Ryan and Forrest Gump released the same year? That´s like the instant classics.

Denzel Washington deserved an Oscar for his performance in Flight. Not only was the competition not very strong (Daniel Day-Lewis won in a rather boring Lincoln movie) but he had several snubs prior to this and deserved one. He did great in Flight.

 

[vdB]

The Wrestler shoulda won best picture.

 

[Sotty]

Sam Rockwell didn't even get nominated for his performance in Moon.

Ralph Fiennes should have won best supporting actor in 1993.

 

[Duke33]

The worst: 2008 in the "foreign language" best film category: Departures (admittedly a good little movie) winning over three exceptional films--Revanche, Waltz with Bashir and The Class.

I have big problems with:

Forest Gump winning over Pulp Fiction
Crash winning over Brokeback Mountain
Rocky winning over Taxi Driver
Titanic winning over LA Confidential
In the Heat of the Night winning over Bonny and Clyde
Gladiator winning over Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

I have zero problems with:

Shakespeare in Love winning over Saving Private Ryan (though I would have voted for The Thin Red Line)
The English Patient winning over Fargo (both fine movies)
Ordinary People winning over Raging Bull (both fine movies)

Good call on Titanic over LA Confidential. I thought LA Confidential was a great movie while Titanic was typical Hollywood slop, wrapping a nonsensical romance around the disaster. *Full marks to Titanic for the graphics, effects, etc. bringing the ship back to life, but way too much Hollywood cliché in that one.

 

[member 51464]

I think the gap between L.A. Confidential was smaller than the gap between Crash and literally any other movie made that year. My god, what an awful film. Saving Private Ryan was lame outside of the opening scene, but Shakespeare in Love had nothing at all going for it other than a topless Gwyneth Paltrow.

 

[Jumptheshark]

While the Godfather 1 and 2 are my fav movies of all time--Caberet is darn good movie and I think due to the subject matter not being of everyone's taste--it has hurt its reputation

 

[Ben Grimm]

...Ralph Fiennes should have won best supporting actor in 1993.

Agreed for Schindler's List. Ellen Burstyn should have won best supporting actress in 2000.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Saving Private Ryan is an amazing movie.

I feel like it's become popular to **** on Forrest Gump. That was a really good movie. Yes, Shawshank and Pulp Fiction are better. But I don't think Forest Gump is on the level of the Kings Speech that people don't even remember anymore.

I liked Ryan--but the end shot ruined it for me

 

[b1e9a8r5s]

I liked Ryan--but the end shot ruined it for me

End shot? Your talking about Ryan screaming scared or something else?

 

[Jumptheshark]

End shot? Your talking about Ryan screaming scared or something else?

the VERY last shot of the movie

 

[dogbazinho]

the VERY last shot of the movie

Him aging and asking him wife if he's been a good man? Yeah was pretty cringe worthy.

 

[chicagoskycam]

What are the Biggest Oscar Snubs Ever? Whadda ya got?

Coppola not winning Best Director for the Godfather?

Shakespeare In Love winning Best Picture over The Thin Red Line and Saving Private Ryan (just added to the Netflix instant que)?

Kramer vs. Kramer winning Best Picture over Apocalypse Now?

Dances with Wolves winning Best Picture over Good Fellas?

The English Patient winning Best Picture over Fargo?

Taxi Driver & Network losing to Rocky for Best Picture?

A Clockwork Orange not winning any major awards? Neither Director nor Screenplay (both were credited to Kubrick)

Pulp Fiction & The Shawshank Redemption losing to Forrest Gump for Best Picture?

Bad timing for Shawshank and Pulp was just way too out there for some people at the time. I think it was much more appreciated later on.

The Dark Knight should have won Best Picture, it wasnt even nominated

Umm no, outside of Ledger I don't think it's a great film.