Biggest robberies in Oscar history

[Joyner82reload]

What do you say? It will always be Kramer vs Kramer somehow beating Apocalypse Now for me. Apocalypse Now has an argument for the GOAT cinematic masterpiece, particularly given how well its cinematography holds up over time considering when it was shot.

Taxi Driver losing to Rocky is also pretty damn bad

[dazzer87]

1999 Best Picture.........Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan......

[Joyner82reload]

1999 Best Picture.........Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan......

Saving Private Ryan is an extremely overrated movie outside of the first 30 minutes. However you are right, Shakespeare in Love shouldn't have won. The Thin Red Line should have won.

[DeuceWallaces]

Goodfellas
Shawshank or Pulp
Citizen Kane
Wizard of Oz
Fargo
Foreign Correspondent
Double Indemnity or Gaslight
Spellbound
Wonderful Life

[pastis]

talking about actors
blood diamonds and shutter island..... dicaprio earned his oscar for one of those for sure.
or at least for his brilliance in departed as supporting actor.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

Saving Private Ryan is an extremely overrated movie outside of the first 30 minutes. However you are right, Shakespeare in Love shouldn't have won. The Thin Red Line should have won.

Shoot that was also a really good movie

[NBAplayoffs2001]

talking about actors
blood diamonds and shutter island..... dicaprio earned his oscar for one of those for sure.
or at least for his brilliance in departed as supporting actor.

Blood Diamonds was amazing but I don't think DiCaprio did enough for an Oscar. His accent though was spot on.

[Joyner82reload]

talking about actors
blood diamonds and shutter island..... dicaprio earned his oscar for one of those for sure.
or at least for his brilliance in departed as supporting actor.

https://taylory.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/blood-diamond-2.jpg

Had the better performance in BD IMO

[NBAplayoffs2001]

https://taylory.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/blood-diamond-2.jpg

Had the better performance in BD IMO

Had to think for a few moments... I actually agree:applause:

[Patrick Chewing]

Saving Private Ryan is an extremely overrated movie outside of the first 30 minutes. However you are right, Shakespeare in Love shouldn't have won. The Thin Red Line should have won.


To me, this is the perfect movie. Nick Nolte and Jim Caviezel were magnificent.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

To me, this is the perfect movie. Nick Nolte and Jim Caviezel were magnificent.

It was beautifully made. Some very iconic scenes.

[Sarcastic]

Alfred Hitchcock never winning an Oscar.

[Nowitness]

Alfred Hitchcock never winning an Oscar.

Or Kubrick.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

Or Kubrick.

Both are massively overrated so I think it's a given.

[LJJ]

This movie won best picture:

http://i.imgur.com/g9B0lRr.jpg

The same year 2001 won Best Special Effects. :oldlol:

Academy people clueless as always. Oscars hold no significance whatsoever.

[Cactus-Sack]

Rocky shits all over Taxi Driver

http://media.giphy.com/media/yoJC2JaiEMoxIhQhY4/giphy.gif

[Velocirap31]

The Oscars are crap. Too many feel good picks and 'it's hot right now' picks. The best picks aren't usually the winning ones.

[bigkingsfan]

Anyone can win an Oscar if they play a homosexual with ALS.

[Nowitness]

Both are massively overrated so I think it's a given.

:facepalm

[irondarts]

Art Carney won best actor over Pacino (Godfather), Nicholson (Chinatown), Dustin Hoffman (Lenny) in 1974.

What.

[Joyner82reload]

Art Carney won best actor over Pacino (Godfather), Nicholson (Chinatown), Dustin Hoffman (Lenny) in 1974.

What.

GOAT year for best actor

[Cactus-Sack]

Paul Newman for Hud.

[Andrei89]

Eddie Redmayne over Michael Keaton who had one of the GOAT performances.

[T_L_P]

Recent ones:

DLL winning Best Actor for Lincoln over Phoenix for The Master.

Christoph Waltz winning for Inglourious Basterds (in a film called Django Unchained) over Phillip Seymour Hoffman for The Master.

Jared Leto winning for Dallas Buyers Club over Fassbender for 12 Years A Slave.

The academy doesn't appreciate performance art.

[SugarHill]

Recent ones:

DLL winning Best Actor for Lincoln over Phoenix for The Master.

Christoph Waltz winning for Inglorious Basters (in a film called Django Unchained) over Phillip Seymour Hoffman for The Master.

Jared Leto winning for Dallas Buyers Club over Fassbender for 12 Years A Slave.

The academy doesn't appreciate performance art.
:biggums:

Leto >>>>

surprised you didn't mention Schindler's List :oldlol:

[StephHamann]

Alfred Hitchcock never winning an Oscar.


Or Kubrick.

/thread

[Nastradamus]

Recent ones:

DLL winning Best Actor for Lincoln over Phoenix for The Master.

Christoph Waltz winning for Inglourious Basterds (in a film called Django Unchained) over Phillip Seymour Hoffman for The Master.

Jared Leto winning for Dallas Buyers Club over Fassbender for 12 Years A Slave.

The academy doesn't appreciate performance art.

Leto was a better performance than Fassbender and all 6 performances listed here are elite and award worthy. No need for the comment at the end, even if sometimes true

[T_L_P]

Leto was a better performance than Fassbender and all 6 performances listed here are elite and award worthy. No need for the comment at the end, even if sometimes true

I agree that DDL's performance was Oscar worthy so it isn't exactly a robbery (though the character he plays couldn't be farther from reality).

Waltz played the same quirky, un-nuanced character he played in Basterds (though he was actually somewhat frightening in the latter so it deserves more credit). We get no real sense of why the character does what he does. There were multiple more deserving candidates. I don't know, maybe my distaste for the performance stems from the fact that Tarantino has become a movie-making caricature, repeating the same old tosh every movie (I count five revenge fantasies in a row now, all saying the exact same thing; that violence is the motor of life).

Leto was not better than Fassbender. Again, part of this is to do with the script (the character serves to amuse us half the time and the other half it's Leto condensing every known stereotype we have of transgender women into one role). The only scene that took any guts, or was performed with the same level of talent that Fassbender displayed throughout 12 Years A Slave, was when Rayon went to visit her father (that was Oscar-worthy acting).

I have no problem if you disagree (I actually really liked Dallas Buyers Club aside from the self-serving revisionism, and DDL is one of the acting greats). That's just how I feel. :confusedshrug:

[SunsN07BookIt]

What do you say? It will always be Kramer vs Kramer somehow beating Apocalypse Now for me. Apocalypse Now has an argument for the GOAT cinematic masterpiece, particularly given how well its cinematography holds up over time considering when it was shot.

Taxi Driver losing to Rocky is also pretty damn bad


Kramer vs Kramer was a juggernaut not to be denied that year. Best actor for Dustin Hoffman, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress for Meryl Streep, Best Screenplay, Best Picture. It seems a robbery now because Apocalypse Now has aged so well, while the cultural impact of Kramer vs Kramer is insignificant now. No one blinks an eye at families separating, brutal divorce, father's rights, etc anymore.

[CP343]

https://taylory.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/blood-diamond-2.jpg

Had the better performance in BD IMO

I didn't think his South African accent was good.

[CP343]

Rocky shits all over Taxi Driver

http://media.giphy.com/media/yoJC2JaiEMoxIhQhY4/giphy.gif

I agree with this.

[Top Gun]

Tom Cruise losing in 1990 and 2000. Travesty.

[KirbyPls]

Saving Private Ryan is an extremely overrated movie outside of the first 30 minutes. However you are right, Shakespeare in Love shouldn't have won. The Thin Red Line should have won.

I like your perspective on movies. :applause:

[ThePhantomCreep]

Vertigo, a GOAT-caliber film, failed to secure a nomination for best picture.