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22 Incredibly Shocking Oscars Injustices - 7/2/2011 1:28:27 PM

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RE: more Oscars injustices - 7/2/2011 5:14:26 PM

snaze1

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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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RE: Best Documentary, 78th Academy Awards - 7/2/2011 9:35:44 PM

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What about Tron not being included for Best Visual Effects because it was done using computers? Wow.

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- 14/2/2011 5:31:23 AM

Amol

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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), The Sixth Sense (1999), Munich (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) for Best Pictures statues. I can understand Washington not winning for Malcolm X since the role was controversial to give for in spite of his mind-boggling performance but with the first and the last two of these movies I just mentioned did not even get a nomination (when personally for me they were winners) and so are examples of how Oscars could not have been more politically correct.

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Judi Dench - 16/2/2011 5:58:51 PM

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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.

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The Oscars are mostly a farse - 21/2/2011 9:57:05 PM

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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.

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1999: "The Insider" scandal... - 23/2/2011 12:00:38 PM

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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.

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Kramer vs Kramer vs Apocalypse Now - 26/2/2011 4:34:36 AM

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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.

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RE: 22 Incredibly Shocking Oscars Injustices - 14/3/2011 2:37:42 PM

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How about The best visual effects win for The Golden Compuss when Transformers should of won they were first rate effects.

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Shawshank! - 17/2/2012 9:48:03 AM

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Shawshank should have got best picture at the 67th Awards. Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction are both brilliant but Shawshank is EPIC!

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goodfellas!! - 23/2/2012 7:29:46 PM

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Martin scorsese should've won the Oscar for "Goddfellas" i think.
He also didn't accept the Oscar when he had made "Raging Bull"

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- 5/4/2013 2:07:40 PM

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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.

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