Comments on: Oscar’s 15 Biggest Best Picture Snubs

By: Wilde

Wilde — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 09:13:59 +0000

The Star Chamber of faceless individuals called “The Academy” loves movies that glorify warfare, which is why the biggest blockbuster movie of all time lost out to a dog that made a paltry 11 million. The theme of “Avatar” was the rebellion of the people against an evil empire, somewhat like “V for Vendetta”. That’s not the kind of message that the people who control Hollywood (as well as much of the media and government) want to promote, especially when they happen to be a large part of that empire. Besides, the thought of scalping Germans seems so much more entertaining.

By: wad

wad — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:50:24 +0000

Time always reveals these kind of mistakes. I feel that Avatar losing 2010 is going to end up being 1977 all over again.

The most common complaint I’ve seen is 1994 where Shawshank and Pulp Fiction lost to Forest Gump. I think Shawshank should have won but to be fair there were three masterpieces that year and each of them deserved to win best picture.

The greatest snub of all time is without a doubt Rear Window not winning best picture for 1954. Worst part is that it wasn’t even nominated.

By: Pre

Pre — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:21:47 +0000

Feels like you left out some of the most egregious snubs in history:

1. “Goodfellas” losing out to “Dances with Wolves” in 1990. Inexcusable. Indefensible.

2. “Do the Right Thing” not even being nominated in 1989. Instead? “Driving Miss Daisy.” Seriously. Its kind of ironic. One was arguably the most important modern movie about race relations. The other was “Driving Miss Daisy.”

3. “Raging Bull” losing out to “Ordinary People” in 1980.

4. “Dr. Strangelove” losing out to “My Fair Lady” in 1964.

5. None of Alfred Hitchcock’s best movies ever winning an Oscar (“Rear Window”, “Vertigo”, “North by Northwest”, etc.).

6. “The Maltese Falcon” losing to “How Green Was My Valley” in 1960 (same year as “Citizen Kane”).

There are countless other all-time great movies that didn’t win the Best Picture (“2001″, “Some Like It Hot”, etc.), but its possible better movies were nominated that year (like how “Chinatown” lost to “The Godfather”).

By: Arnobius of Sicca

Arnobius of Sicca — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:21:27 +0000

Munich should have won in 2005? That’s a joke right? That was easily Spielberg’s worst movie ever. I didn’t see Crash, but it (and the rest of the nominees for that matter) would have to be a horrendous movie to make it an injustice for Munich to have “deserved” it.

By: elixelx

elixelx — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:48:52 +0000

The greatest ever exploration of old men who were once young lions, their lost lives, their lost loves, the sweetness of death…Robin and Marian…Connery, Hepburn, Williamson and the brilliant Robert Shaw trumping his turn as Henry VIII…a tremendous, moving, everlasting film about dreams that never come to pass!

By: The Jungle Cat

The Jungle Cat — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:20:31 +0000

The problem with awards like these in general–whether they be of the Pulitzer or Academy sort–are that they honor past work vicariously by awarding present work instead. Why else would Clint Eastwood win Best Director for “Million Dollar Baby” rather than “Mystic River”?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 06:29:51 +0000

I am still torn over whether No Country For Old Men should have beaten There Will Be Blood. Both are fantastic, but….

By: Liam

Liam — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:28:28 +0000

The lowest point in the past generation: 1984. Amadeus beat The Killing Fields, A Passage to India, Places in The Heart, and A Soldier’s Story. Sigh.

By: Denny Burk

Denny Burk — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:01:12 +0000

GeronimoRumplestiltskin:

Consider yourself high-fived, my friend!

By: Craig Payne

Craig Payne — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:33:37 +0000

Well, in the case of the Jackson films, they did take several years to make and release. In the case of the Obama Nobel, he was nominated after ten days in office. At least Jackson had something tangible to point to as an accomplishment.

But I do agree with a previous poster: the last LOTR movie was the worst of the three. It’s too bad the Oscar waited for that one.