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22 Incredibly Shocking Oscars Injustices
We attempt to right those Oscar wrongs
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Best Actress (1941)Who should have won: Rosalind Russell (His Girl Friday)
Who won: Ginger Rogers (Kitty Foyle) Machine-gun dialogue? Check. Smouldering chemistry with Cary Grant? Check. Razor-sharp wit? Checketty check. Rosalind Russell’s ace reporter, Hildy Johnson, had all these things and a very cool hat, so stone us if we can explain why the Academy forgot to nominate her, especially as Howard Hawks’s improv-heavy approach brought the best out in Russell. She wasn’t his first pick for the role – she wasn’t even on the shortlist – and the two shared a frosty antipathy for much of the shoot, but Russell had an innate gift for screwball that elevated her exchanges with Grant’s editor/ex-husband to a thing of wise-cracking genius. Grant’s on-screen partners never had much luck at the Oscars, however worthy. Others in the almost-but-not-quite bracket included Deborah Kerr (An Affair To Remember), Ingrid Bergman (Notorious) Katharine Hepburn (The Philadelphia Story) and Irene Dunne (The Awful Toast). Russell, who never won an Academy Award, was the best of the lot. And as good as Ginger Rogers was as the non-singing, non-dancing Kitty Foyle, Russell was better.
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| 1 | | Munich a "lesser Spielberg"? I seem to remember your review describing it as Spielberg operating at his peak. Don't worry, I appreciate that there is more than one Empire writer. It's just that I absolutely adore Munich and I consider it one of his best. So, needless to say, I would've given it the main prizes, however Brokeback Mountain would have been a worthy winner and GNAGL was excellent as well. Absolutely ridiculous that Crash won over all of them. Even the not-nominated comic book classics that year like Sin City and A History Of Violence were waaaaay better. More
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Posted by Mr Gittes on Friday April 5, 2013, 14:07 |
| | 2 | goodfellas!! | Martin scorsese should've won the Oscar for "Goddfellas" i think.
He also didn't accept the Oscar when he had made "Raging Bull" More
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Posted by movielover28 on Thursday February 23, 2012, 19:29 |
| | 3 | Shawshank! | Shawshank should have got best picture at the 67th Awards. Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction are both brilliant but Shawshank is EPIC! More
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Posted by guysalisbury on Friday February 17, 2012, 09:48 |
| | 4 | RE: 22 Incredibly Shocking Oscars Injustices | How about The best visual effects win for The Golden Compuss when Transformers should of won they were first rate effects. More
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Posted by NCC1701A on Monday March 14, 2011, 14:37 |
| | 5 | Kramer vs Kramer vs Apocalypse Now | Describing Kramer vs Kramer as a "courtroom drama" only serves to demonstrate that whoever wrote this copy hasn't actually seen the film. The award was for best director, not "most complicated production", "most gruelling shoot", or "most impressive film". Robert Benton's work on Kramer vs Kramer was nothing short of astonishing. The Academy didn't get that one wrong at all. More
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Posted by byronbache on Saturday February 26, 2011, 04:34 |
| | 6 | 1999: "The Insider" scandal... | Sorry,but what about the great Michael Mann ??Oh yes he's just a "minor" director: "last of the mohicans","collateral","public enemies","heat"...and his masterpiece,"the insider".In 1999, "American Beauty" had scandalously stolen all the statues that "the insider" deserved.It's for me the bigest scandal in Oscars history so far.
The victory of "Titanic" over "L.A. Confidential" comes in second.
The fact that "Seven" has received only the Editing Oscar comes in 3rd. More
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Posted by tylerseven on Wednesday February 23, 2011, 12:00 |
| | 7 | The Oscars are mostly a farse | The reality is that the Oscars are not given out to whom deserves them, but to who's politically relevant at the time, or who's due one after all these years.
Take Morgan Freeman: He was given one for million dollar baby because they owed him one for Shawshank. Or Hitchcock who never won a Oscar probably because he just made thrillers, and they're not "deep". (even though he rewrote Freud with his work)
Let's face it: If you're an ethnic, disabled midget, with learning difficulties you might as well prepare your speech now.
What annoys me the most is that the Oscar don't usually go to the best films, but to the ones that tick the most political boxes. A film about croutons and their interaction with soup should beat a film about apartheid if it's a better film. Nuff said. More
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Posted by David Hirst on Monday February 21, 2011, 21:57 |
| | 8 | Judi Dench | You mention that Judi Dench's run time is a little too skinny for the Oscar?
What about Beatrice Straight's performance as Louise Schumacher in Network? Just over five minutes = best supporting gong. More
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Posted by Lord Byron Pitt on Wednesday February 16, 2011, 17:58 |
| | 9 | | I agree with most from the list and especially the blasphemous non-recognition of Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick for their masterpieces or just for pure direction. Even though any awards should not be considered as a sure-fire metric standard for measuring up a quality of a movie still they are a way of recognizing the genius from any field,
movies or not. But if I do take it that way, Oscars surely did some injustices by IGNORING...
1. The Maltese Falcon 2. Pacino (for any of the seven roles he was nominated for instead of the one he actually won for) 3. Dressed To Kill (1980) for at least some nominations 4. Denzel Washington (Cry Freedom, Crimson Tide), Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction), Kevin Spacey (SE7EN), Tom Hanks (Cast Away) - (How could they miss that one ??!!!), Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind), Sergio Leone, Robert Altman and his creations, especially M*A*S*H (1970). Also SE7EN(1995), L. A. Confidential (1997), Saving Private Ryan (1998), More
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Posted by Amol on Monday February 14, 2011, 05:31 |
| | 10 | RE: Best Documentary, 78th Academy Awards | What about Tron not being included for Best Visual Effects because it was done using computers? Wow. More
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Posted by JCRendle on Monday February 7, 2011, 21:35 |
| | 11 | RE: more Oscars injustices | One glaring omission from the oscar omissions feature was Ralph Feinnes (as Amon Goeth in Schindlers list) losing out to Tommy Lee Jones (As Sam "Shouty cop" Gerrard in The Fugitive) at the 1994 oscars.
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Posted by snaze1 on Monday February 7, 2011, 17:14 |
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