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Well obviously not everyone agrees on the Academys decisions sometimes. What do you think are a few cases where someone REALLY deserved an Oscar but it was awarded to someone else....

1994 Best supporting actor: Samuel L. Jackson(Pulp Fiction)

1995 Best supporting actor: Patrick Mcgoohan(Braveheart)
He lost to Kevin Spacey which I can live with, but if you ask me Spacey was a lead in The Usual Suspects

1996 Best actor: Billy Bob Thornton(Sling Blade)

1998 Best actor: Al Pacino(Donnie Brasco)
Pacino at his best, while he played a gangster again, he plays a totally different role than usual. He's much more weak and vulnerable than usual, he seems more real.

1999 Best supporting actress Thora Birch(American Beauty)
Best supporting actor: Chris Cooper(American Beauty)
There were a few good movies in '99, but none even close to American Beauty

2002 Best actor: Daniel Day-Lewis(Gangs of New York)
Best Director: Martin Scorsese(Gangs of New York)
Lewis has long since deserved one since Last of the Mohicans, and come on even though I think Sam Mendes would be a good choice Scorsese definetly deserves a little gold statue.

Ok so I'm a little biased...

Agreed, entirely.
I don't agree with this one, Spacey deserved an oscar, and I believe his character could be seen as a supporting one.
I was disappointed by his performance in this, so, would have to disagree.
Definately agree here, on both, great performances.
Again, I agree. Definately Day-Lewis deserved a nod.

Anjelica Huston in The Grifters .

The four actresses that lost to Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny.

Judy Davis in Husbands and Wives, Joan Plowright in Enchanted April, Vanessa Redgrave in Howards End, Miranda Richardson in Damage.

This was the exact moment when I stopped caring about movie awards.

These are ones I thought of.

The Greatest Films website has an unbelievable list of mistakes and omissions.

http://www.filmsite.org/noawards.html

I couldn't believe it. :furious:

Great Actors Who Have Not Won
Acting Academy Awards®


Arnold Schwarzenegger (0)!!! I like the guy that wrote this, only hardcore Arnie fans would go so far as to call Arnie a Great Actor :D Arnie for Oscar!!!

Tim Dirks wrote the article.

What about his cutting edge performance in Twins? :D

Oh, sadly this is a never-ending list. The Academy routinely rewards acting performances for all the wrong reasons, and usually snubbig some just flat-out spectacular work in the process.

A few that stick in my craw the most...

• Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence
  This isn't one of those instances where the winner was completely undeserving, as Ellen Burstyn did a great job in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, but Rowlands' performance is jaw-dropping, amazing stuff. A shame.
  
• Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream and Bjork in Dancer in the Dark
  Movie Mega-Star Julia Roberts gets her trophy for Erin Brockovich - which she was soild in, but come on! Of the four other nominees, Burstyn's heartbreaking and edgy work as the pill-popping woman spirlaing out of control is the best work of her brilliant career. But frankly, I would have given the award to Bjork, who wasn't even nominated for her acting. It was such a singular, deep performance in a singular film. The Oscars just plain missed the boat on this one. Shocking, I know.
  
• Nicole Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut and To Die For
  She finally got her recognition for The Hours and was nominated the year before with Moulin Rouge!, but Kidman should have grabbed a trophy for much better work in previous years. She was phenomenal at the center of Gus Van Sant's satirical To Die For, but though she won a Golden Globe she wasn't even nominated at The Oscars (where Susan Sarandon won for Dead Man Walking). And while Eyes Wide Shut was completely shut-out of any nominations (idiots), for me one of the most suprising of those many snubs was Kidman's very crucial and layered supporting work, which didn't even get a chance to go up against Angelina Jolie - who somehow took the statue for Girl, Interrupted.
  
• Guy Pearce in Memento
  Denzel is a terrific actor, but his work in Training Day is nothing terribly special, and the film is routine. What's worse than that though is that Pearce didn't even get a nomination! Ugh. Really, the Academy makes so many bonehead calls, it's hard to keep track!
  
• Bill Murray in Rushmore
  I love Jimmy Coburn and think he was underrated, but I'm not one for giving out acting Oscars as some kind of career achievement. He was good and creepy in Affliction, but didn't warrant any award. And this in spite of the fact that Bill Murray, who has always been dismissed as an actor, did some amazing, subtle, complicated and (what should have finally been) eye-opening work in Rushmore - yet didn't even get a nomination! Hopefully the Academy won't snub him AGAIN this year for Lost in Translation...but of course, they more than probably will.
  
• Forest Whitaker in Bird
  Eastwood's film did great at Cannes, where Whtaker was given the best actor prize, and even got some key nominations at the Golden Globes, including Best Actor for Forest. But when it came to the Academy, the film went ignored but for its amazing and innovative sound direction. Eastwood as Director and Diane Venora as Actress were also stunningly snubbed, but Whitaker's truly central performance as the brilliant but self-desructive Jazz great Charlie Parker should have been a shoo-in. I like Hoffman, what he did in Rain Man was showy but still good (though of the nominees I though Hanks' work in Big had the highest degree of difficulty and was the most singular and impressive), but there's no way Whitaker shouldn't have been on that stage.
  
• Harrison Ford in The Mosquito Coast and Working Girl
  Harrison is of course the biggest action star of his generation, but he's also an underrated and usually untested actor. Peter Weir showed what he could do in Witness, which landed Ford his only Oscar nomination to date, but he should have been nominated and won for what the two collaborated on in The Mosquito Coast just the following year. Adding to that injustice, Ford wasn't even nominated in '89 after he shifted gears with grace to play the charming, romantic comedy supporting role in Mike Nichols' Working Girl.

And on and on and on.....

Wow I figured Guy Pearce was at least nominated for Memento

I completely forgot about Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream.

What did she have to do, actually die?!

Three off the top of my head I'd go with would be...

Bob Hoskins in THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY. His Harold Shand is the part he was born to play. :D

Jeremy Irons for DEAD RINGERS. I know he got a gong a year later for REVERSAL OF FORTUNE but please!!!
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Kathy Bates for DELORES CLAIBOURNE. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant and one of the best Stephen King adaptations to boot!

John.

I agree. I also thought her performance in GLORIA was excellent too. The scene where her charcater wastes a car load of hoodlums is my tops "stand up and cheer" cinema moments...

John.

I don't care if they were nominated or not but the first two Lord of the Rings movies deserved way more recognition then they got! last year chicago got best picture and I enjoyed it but I still thing two towers should have won... but of course this is one of the many reasons I don't watch award shows

The only one that I've disagreed with is passing up Edward Norton for the supporting actor role in Primal Fear. Instead they gave it to Cuba Gooding Jr.

Cuba was good, but Edward's portrayal of a convict with multiple personally disorder is FAR superior than Cuba's acting in Jerry Maguire.

Norton was robbed, simply because it was his very first film.

Burstyn from Requiem is the one I always complain about. I also agree that Norton should have won for Primal Fear. I remember being totally blown away by his performance, and he just came out of nowhere.

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Judy Garland...in A Star is Born (1954). She was robbed big time by both the studio and the Academy.

Cate Blanchett....in Elizabeth(1998). I can’t believe Gwyneth Paltrow recieved the Oscar for Shakespeare In Love over Cate Blanchett. Gwyneth was pleasing to watch as always...but her character and performance didn't come close to the depth of character Cate portrayed. As Elizabeth, she was incredible.

Shakespeare in Love also robbed Saving Private Ryan of the Oscar for Best Picture.

totally agree that movie put me to sleep-Shakespeare "yawn" ;)

peter jackson deserved the best director and best picture award

i think jim carrey was robbed of an oscar for best actor for "man on the moon". that movie was great and his portrayal of andy kaufman was amazing!

I think Angelina Jolie atleast deserved a best actress nomination for Beyond Borders. I mean its not her fault the story had weak parts.....she was good in that movie.

Peter Jackson should have got best director for Lord of the Rings: Two Towers and Fellowship.

I think Edward Norton should have won an oscar for Primal Fear, and should have been nominated for The Score, The People Vs. Larry Flint, and Fight Club. I'm not sure, but he might have deserved the statue for American History X as well. Simply one of the best actors ever, in my opinion.

Robin Williams should have been nominated for Mrs. Doubtfire.

Speaking of nominations, the fact that Brad Pitt has only gotten one seems like a crime to me.

Here are some other performances I thought deserved to win the Oscar:

Denzel Washington for Malcolm X
Anthony Hopkins for Instinct
Jim Carrey for Man on the Moon
Russell Crowe for A Beautiful Mind

One thing a lot of people do is put too much weight on how much they liked the movie, instead of just concentrating on the particular performance in question. Hopkins in Instinct and Norton in The Score come to mind. Whether you liked those movies or not, you'd have to have a pretty strange way of gauging acting to think that those two perfomances weren't fantastic. Just my opinion.

I put the year when the movie came out, so the Oscar was the next year.

1976: Beatrice Straight won Best Supporting Actress for Network. She's in the movie for like 10 minutes!

1992: Denzel Washington deserved the Best Actor for Malcolm X. Al Pacino won it for Scent of a Woman, his first Academy Award.

1993: Tommy Lee Jones won the Best Supporting Actor for The Fugitive. John Malkovich (In the Line of Fire) and Ralph Fiennes (Schindler's List) were more deserving.

1994: Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't even remember Hoop Dreams getting nominated for Best Documentary.

1996: Eddie Murphy should've at least gotten a Best Actor nomination for The Nutty Professor. Comedic actors rarely get the credit they deserve. His performance in this movie was incredible.

1998: Shakespeare in Love winning over Saving Private Ryan.

2001: Denzel Washington winning the Best Actor over Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind.

2003: City of God didn't even get nominated for Best Picture. Did it got nominated for Best Foreign Film? C.O.G. was better than Return of the King in my opinion.

It was nominated in 1995 for Best Film Editing. It should have gotten an award for Best Documentary, I agree. It's one of my all time favourite documentaries.

On the other hand A Beautiful Mind won the Best Picture Award in competition with four other films of which at least three were way better (Moulin Rouge, The Lord of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Ring and Gosford Park. Haven't seen In the Bedroom). And even if I wasn't blown away by Washington's performance in Training Day, I still think he deserved it over Russell Crowe's clumsy performance. ;)

I couldn't agree more.

I really thought Robert Downey Jr should have won the Best Actor Oscar for his performance in Chaplin, but instead Al Pacino won it for Scent Of A Woman. Now, don't get me wrong; I really love Al's performance, but he should have won for numerous films before this, I really think Downey disserved to win.

I enjoyed Holly Hunter in The Piano but I really would have loved to see Stockard Channing win a Best Actress Oscar for Six Degrees Of Separation.

I would have rathered either John Malkovich for In The Line Of Fire or Leonardo DiCaprio for What's Eating Gilbert Grape to have won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, instead of Tommy Lee Jones.


Will think of more later...

AMEN, sister!! That was a travesty.

I also think Bill Murray deserved the nod for Lost In Translation. His performance was understated, but heartbreakingly detailed and honest. I was thrilled to see Johnny Depp win and I have a ton of respect for him as an actor, but I felt Murray lost to a showier performance, rather than to a greater skill.

Er, ummmm....not sure which Oscars you were watching last year, but neither Bill Murray nor Johnny Depp won Best Actor. The trophy went to Sean Penn, for Mystic River (though surely some of that was a sort of unwritten vote for his work in 21 Grams as well). The other two nominees were Ben Kingsley in House of Sand & Fog and Jude Law in Cold Mountain.

Here is my list of Academy mistakes:

1990- Best Picture Dances With Wolves...should've went to Goodfellas
Best Director Kevin Costner...over Martin Scorsese? NOT!!

1998- Best Picture Shakespeare in Love...what was the Academy smoking? Saving Private Ryan should've won HANDS DOWN!!
Best Actress Gwyneth Paltrow...sorry, but not over Cate Blanchett. Cate's performance was definitely the better of the two.

2000- Best Picture Gladiator...I LOVED this movie. But I don't think it deserved the Oscar that year (over Chocolat, Traffic, Erin Brockovich, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)
Best Actor Russell Crowe...this should've been between Tom Hanks (Cast Away) and Ed Harris (Pollock).

2001-Best Actor Denzel Washington...This is where Russell Crowe should've gotten his award, for his role as John Nash in A Beautiful Mind. Or even Will Smith's skills as ALI could've been rewarded.

This is just a short list which I'm sure the Academy will help to fill over time. :(

I just found out that Elizabeth Taylor wasn't even nominated for her performance in Cleopatra! I am totally shocked over this!

That's not so shocking. It's not her best work, she had just won the Oscar two years before (for BUtterfield 8) and already had four nominations ('58, '59, '60 and '61). The next time she did something really remarkble and daring on screen, for Who's Afriad of Virginia Woolf? just three years after Cleopatra, she was nominated and very rightly won again. Bravely going against her icon status as one of the most beautiful women on the screen to play such a flawed and repugnant character so perfectly was truly deserving of an award. Cleopatra...not so much.

The actress who really got screwed out of a Best Actress nomination for the '63 year of films was Deborah Kerr, who is fantastic in The Innocents (Robert Wise). But that's also one of those rare years that it's pretty easy to say the best performance actually was nominated and even won: Patricia Neal in Hud, so not a year to complain too much about - Best Actress-wise anyway.

Anyone who has seen A Streetcar Named Desire knows that Marlon Brando should have won the oscar. Some of my other gripes are Forrest Gump over The Shawshank Redemption in '94 and Peter Jackson over Clint Eastwood for last years Best Director.

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Peter O' Toole not winning best actor for Lawrence of Arabia.

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2006: Emanuel Lubezki, Director of Photography for Children of Men, loosing out to Guillermo Navarro of Pan's Labyrinth.

Though i loved the latter, Lubzeki deserved the Oscar for all the innovative work he did on his flick.

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1988- Mississippi Burning should have won best picture

1990-Best Director should have gone to Scorcese for Goodfellas

1992- Denzel Washington should have got best actor it for MalcolmX

1993- Ralph Fiennes or Ben Kingsley should have got the supporting actor for Schindlers list.

1998- Edward Nortan should have got best actor for American History X

2001- Ben Kingsley should have got best supporting actor for his role in Sexy Beast.

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I'm sorry, but there have not been any bigger ripoffs than Norton losing out for American History X and Fiennes losing for Schindler's List.

Both of those are haunting performances that just will never leave my memory.

Even if you don't like Schindler's List or American History X, you still have to totally appreciate the incredible work Fiennes and Norton did in those roles.

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A vastly overrated performance. Literally any reasonably charismatic black actor could have stepped into that role and been a cult favorite - the excellence of the writing, not the quality of Jackson's characterization, is what makes Jules Winnfield such an appealing figure.

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Can you name one?

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Fishburne? Danny Glover? Hell, had the roles of Ving Rhames and Jackson been reversed, we'd be talking about Rhames in this context.

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I doubt that either Glover or Rhames could deliver the same script in the same brisk fashion. Regardless of that, isn't every brilliant performance based mostly on brilliant script?

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Come on... everyone knows that all it takes to play a black character is a black actor. What's the point in arguing about that??

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I think that the character was tailor made to Samuel L Jackson's personality and acting style. Anyone else would not have been the same. Ving Rhames probably could have been good in the role, but it would have been a vastly different character.

The stdio that originally put up the money for Pulp Fiction, Tri Star Pictures, originally wanted John Travolta's part to be played by Daniel Day Lewis. That would have changed the tone of the film radically, as would any other black actor playing Jules.

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Not really. Great performances very often are independent of the quality of the script (see Training Day. But what do we really remember about Jules? Not the performance, but the LINES he delivers. That's the script, not the actor.

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That's partially true...we also remember his acting while he was delivering them. Can you imagine Glover reciting Ezekiel 25:17 or the guns of the Navarone line with the same persuasion and it having the same impact it did? I think not...Jackson was perfect for the role because he is without a doubt the coolest black actor in Hollywood. Without him, Pulp fiction would not have been the same...and I wonder if it would have the same cult status it now enjoys...he is the character that everyone remembers and quotes the most. The script had a lot to do with it sure, but Jackson's persona had a lot to do with it as well. He can recite even the shittiest and corniest of lines and still make them digestible...

(Btw, I thought Washington's performance in Training day was one of the worst cases of overacting in Hollywood history.)

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Jackson is 'cool' because Tarantino made him cool. He was blessed by getting his career on track with two incredibly well-written roles that required nothing but intensity and swagger (the only traits Jackson ever brings to any character). Jules is a fun and memorable character, but that's because he says things like "English, mother****er! DO YOU SPEAK IT?" not because Sam Jackson is a great actor (which he isn't). It would have been a memorable role in almost any competent actor's hands. Oscars should be reserved for great performances that demand great attention to detail, not good performances of great material that require little or no range from the actor.

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Well that's bullshit...

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The one that bugs me big time is Julia Roberts winning over Ellen Burstyn. She was robbed. Any halfway decent actress could have played Erin Brokovich.

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How can anyone take the awards seriously? John Wayne won a 'best actor' oscar! Gary Cooper won twice!

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I guess you've never seen The Caveman's Valentine, wherein Jackson is required to play a charcter plauged by bizarre visions and self-doubt, and does so effortlessly. Not to mention Black Snake Moan, which requires intensity, but a lot of vulnerability, too.

Sure, the lines are quoted because they're fun, and they work so long as they're intense, but this isn't binary; there are degrees to how well this dialogue can work, and Jackson delivers it in a near-ideal manner. It would have been all too easy for Tarantino's dialogue to turn into self-parody, but it didn't, and for that Jackson deserves a degree of credit. I suspect it is easy to deny him that credit simply because we can't possibly know what another actor might have done with the same material. If we could, my guess would be that many of us would appreciate his performance more.

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Personally i thought hotel rwanda was robbed of an oscar. much better than million dollar baby

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I could say that lots of comical actors have missed out, it usually goes to those who play dramatic roles but it is also a talent to make people laugh let alone a worlwide audience so personally i belive good comical perfomances have been robbed of atleast being nominated for an oscar

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I 110% agree with this. I love Pulp Fiction. I love Jules. But not only was Jackson not the best performer of the year, he was not even the best in the film. Ving Rhames owned that film...

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Chief Dan George was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Little Big Man (1970), but he lost out to John Mills for Ryan's Daughter. I just have a hard time believing that any character could be more caring, especially concerning "The Human Beings", yet have such a crazy sense of humor as Old Lodgeskins does in the hands of the wonderful and wise Chief Dan George. My friends still go around quoting, "Do you want to eat" and "It is a good day to die."

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At this point in time, with all his subsequent accolades, it doesn't really matter, but Jack Nicholson's performance as lawyer George Hanson in Easy Rider (1969) was his first truly awesome performance. The fact that he could pull it off with such integrity and zaniness, while stoned and often ad-libbing about the Venusians "living and working among us", remains a textbook example (along with the above) on how a "lesser" character supports the rest of the cast and the production. Nicholson was nominated, but lost to Gig Young in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?. In both cases, veterans won out over someone considered more of a newcomer.

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Audrey Tautou in Amelie (2001)

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Jeff Goldblum in The Fly (1986)

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Christian Bale in American Psycho (2000)

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Well, they were nominated, but they didn't win


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Tim Robbins, in The Shawshank Redemption
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Morgan Freeman, in the Shawshank Redemption
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The Shawshank Redemption, just in General
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Malcolm McDowell, in A Clockwork Orange

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Actually, Tim Robbins wasn't even nominated.

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bah, and neither was Malcolm, must........ kill....... academy........,

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William Hurt for A History of Violence
Anthony Hopkins for The Remains of the Day
Shelley Winters for The Poseidon Adventure
Jeff Bridges for Starman
Jane Fonda for On Golden Pond
Peter O'Toole for My Favorite Year and The Lion in Winter
Annette Bening for American Beauty
Paul Newman for Cool Hand Luke and The Verdict

(When Newman lost for The Verdict I almost threw a brick through my television set! That was a disgrace. A few years later they gave him an "Opps, we're sorry about that" Oscar for The Color of Money. Shameful. I went looking for my brick again.)

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Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls. He created a perfectly nuanced character who made me laugh and made me cry.He did this and still gave an Eddie Murphy performance:cocky,smooth,emotional and all kinds of loner badass.Even without the music his performance verged on Shakespearean with the juxtaposition of light and dark, comedy and tragedy. And the music? TA_DOW! That man can sing and dance and act and joke like no other actor!

The academy decided he wasn't worthy.Other actors would react a number of ways that are numerous and less humerous.Eddie Murphy made Norbit. Why? Cuz he's freakin' Eddie Murphy that's why.

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I totally agree with A Reservoir Dogs list.

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The worst part about Newman getting the Oscar for The Color of Money was who got robbed!
James Woods was electrifying in Salvador. It should have been a no-brainer. They should have given him the Oscar on the red carpet as he walked into the building.
But Newman gets it for a performance that he basically mailed in.

Man, it's been 20 years and it still ticks me off.

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And whilst it might seem like a joke, can you imagine anyone else delivering the "I'm so mother****in' sick of these mother****in' snakes on this mother****in' plane!" line better than Jackson?

I think not.

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The only thing I think about when I hear the Ezekiel 25:17 line in Pulp Fiction (one of my fave films) is how much BS Tarantino added to it that's not in the Bible. As far as Jackson goes that year, I probably would have voted for him for Best Actor. I'd still have to vote for Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood for Best Supporting Actor, since I think he probably gave the male performance of the year.

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That's true, because I've looked at that passage in the Bible, and it differs a lot.
But, I still think Jackson/Tarantino's version is better.

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Salma Hayek (2002) - Should have walked away with Best Actress for Frida instead of Nicole Kidman for The Hours!!

Penelope Cruz (2005) - Before her nomination for Volver she should have been nominated for one of the greatest female performances ever as Italia in 'Non ti muovere' (Don't Move). She would have won Best Actress here instead of Reese Witherspoon for Walk The Line.

Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd (2000,2001) - Both should have been nominated for Anywhere But Here

Gael Garcia Bernal (2004/5) - Should have been nominated and won for either of his roles in Bad Education or The Motorcycle Diaries

Pedro Almodovar - Should have been nominated for Best Foreign Film, Best Film and Best Director multiple times for Talk To Her, All About My Mother, Live Flesh and Volver.

Cecilia Roth - Why hasnt this woman been nominated for her acting, should have definitely received one for All About My Mother!!

Javier Bardem (2000) - Should have won Best Actor here for Before Night Falls over Russell Crowe for Gladiator.

Eric Bana - Should have been nominated for Best Actor for Munich and this year for Romulus My Father.

Lagaan (2001) - Should have won Best Foreign Film but lost to No Mans Land.


I agree with City of God, Al Pacino, Quentin Tarintino and most of the other opinions put forward, I mean we could go on and on about who was robbed who deserved it and so on so Im just gonna leave my list at that for now cause I could write pages on who and what I think was robbed. The Oscars are balls anyway, they sometimes show form by getting it right but a majority of the time they stuff it up!!

Im happy with Javier, and Marion's nominations and victories tonight as well!! VIVA FRANCE

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Okay, so after watching Back to the Future a couple nights ago, I've decided the most glaring Oscar injustice of all time is Alan Silvestri not even getting a flippin nomination for that score of his. Seriously, has there ever been less recognition for such an iconic slice of movie music?

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Roger Deakins, legendary DOP, a bit like Scorcesse, nominated many times but never a winner.

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There should have been at least an Oscar nomination for the Iranian movie Offside (Foreign Language Film category, obviously). They got shafted because the Iranian government refused to give it a release - and unless it's been released in the country of origin it's not eligible. A great and important movie nonetheless - about time they changed those rules...

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I thought Sharon Stone was great in Casino and was in a good chance of winning the oscar she was nominated for. Susan Sarandon won instead, so I'm not really going to complain. I think Sharon deserved it more though, as Dead Man Walking is not Susan's best performance.

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Martin Scorcese for every film. And to think that he finally won for one of his poorer movies. Sure, the Departed was good, but can it be comapred to any of his earlier films? Taxi Driver, Raging Bull?

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New bible as written by Quentin Tarantino...

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Rod Steiger for The Pawnbroker.

If Steiger doesn't win, at least Richard Burton for The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, right?

Oh no, Lee Marvin wins for Cat Ballou.

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Paul Dano in There Will Be Blood! What happened there? He was absolutly amazing and he didn't even get nominated for a Globe. I think if he hadn't been in Daniel Day Lewis' shadow I think he would've gotten much more credit. Also Jackie Haley in Little Children, and pretty much everyone in Requim for a Dream.

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The fact that neither Edward Norton nor Kate Winslet have yet won Oscars is mildly upsetting.
But far worse than that is the fact that Gary Oldman has never even been nominated. It baffles me.

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What should Oldman have been nominated for?

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"What's your name, angel?"

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1986 - Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (Leading)
1990 - Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Supporting)
1992 - Dracula in Bram Stoker's Dracula (Leading)
1994 - Ludwig van Beethoven in Immortal Beloved (Leading)
1994 - Stansfield in Leon (Supporting)

Also worth mentioning are his portrayals of James Gordon in Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, and Sirius Black in The Order of the Phoenix.

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Almodovar was nominated for Best director for Talk to Her and won best screenplay in 2003.

All About My Mother won best foreign language film in 2000

Geoffrey Rush should have won for Quills. But yeah, Javier Bardem over Russell Crowe any day.

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The Professional was a weird movie, man!

It's entire theme was pedophilia...why do you think Leon took care of a plant?

People who have been robbed of Oscars
 

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Grace Kelly robbed? I haven't seen either, but its hard to imagine Grace Kelly robbing anyone of an oscar. She is awesome.

I would like to say Denzel got robbed for the Hurricane, but he really didn't. Though I do think it is perhaps his strongest performance, he was still up against big competition.

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Directors Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock were nominated plenty of times but didn't win in a single of them, they were robbed in a few

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Brad Pitt-Should definitely gotten nominations for Fight Club, Snatch, Inglourious Basterds & should've won for 12 Monkeys.

Edward Norton- Should've won for American History X & Primal Fear and should have been nominated for Fight Club & The 25th Hour.

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Felicity Huffman should've won for Transamerica in 2005 and not Reese Witherspoon

Great thread, brother.

Jackson was excellent in Pulp Fiction. I was personally rooting for Gary Senise in Forrest Gump as Lieutenant Dan but I wouldn't have mind either winning. Because both were better than Martin Landau in Ed Wood.

I thought Spacey was better than Patrick McGoohan, but that's just me.

As far as if Spacey was a lead or supporting, I can sort of see your point. Personally I thought his role was that of a lead.

I agree 100% with you there. Thornton was robbed.

Love your assessment of Pacino's character in Donnie Brasco. You are right on. Was a good movie too.

However I think that year Tom Hanks should have won for Saving Private Ryan.

I'm fine with Angelina Jolie winning for Girl, Interrupted. She played that character extremely well.

For Best Supporting Actor I liked Michael Clark Duncan in the Green Mile.

I was hoping Michael Caine would have won best Actor for The Quiet American that year.

As far as Best Director I personally thought Roman Polanski deserved the win with The Pianist.

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Also, Christian Bale for Best Actor for his tour-de-force in American Psycho.

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Should have won Best Picture. It is number 4 on the AFI list

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I'm still baffled as to how Gordon Pinsent couldn't get even an Oscar nomination for "Away From Her". In a weak year at that, where he gave better performances than all of the nominees except Day Lewis (in my opinion anyway).

agree...

i also agree on edward norton for american history x.

i also think inception was robbed this year

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Excellent, a thread where I can bash the Academy!

-Vertigo should have won best picture of 1958

-2001 should have won in 1968

-Psycho should have won in 1960

-Goodfellas in 1990

-Blade Runner in 1982

-Empire Strikes Back, OR The Shining, OR Raging Bull in 1980

-The Dark Knight in 2008

-The Social Network OR Inception last year

And thats just the Best Picture snubs. The fact that neither Hitchcock nor Kubrick won a Best Director is absolutely repulsive. Same goes for Pacino's lack of an Oscar until Scent of a Woman. And both James Stewart, Kim Novak, and Bernard Herrmann should have won in 1958 for Vertigo.

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I think Sunset Boulevard was more worthy of an oscar than All About Eve.

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It still baffles me how they could possibly have justified snubbing Jim Carrey for The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine.

Agree with many of the opinions here and would just like to add my 10 pence worth:

Can't believe they weren't even nominated

Ray Liotta - Goodfellas (words literally fail me...)

Tim Robbins - The Shawshank Redemption (ditto Ray Liotta)

Kevin Bacon - The Woodsman, Murder in the First, Mystic River, The River Wild, Sleepers (what more does this great actor have to do???)

Pam Grier - Jackie Brown

Paul Bettany - A Beautiful Mind (easily gave the best & most underrated performance in this movie)

Dennis Quaid - Far From Heaven (just ridiculous...)

Sean Penn - Carlito's Way (another very underrated performance)

Denholm Elliott - Trading Places

Margaret Hamilton - The Wizard of Oz

Elizabeth Spriggs - Sense & Sensibility

Miriam Margolyes - The Age of Innocence


They should have won...

Morgan Freeman - The Shawshank Redemption

Fernanda Montenegro - Central Station

Julianne Moore - Far From Heaven

Sharon Stone - Casino

Vera Drake - Imelda Staunton

Gary Sinise - Forrest Gump

William H.Macy - Fargo

Leonardo Di Caprio - What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

Marisa Tomei - In the Bedroom


It should have been a tie..

Geraldine Page - The Trip to Bountiful
Whoopi Goldberg - The Color Purple

Hilary Swank - Boys Don't Cry
Annette Bening - American Beauty

Anna Paquin - The Piano
Rosie Perez - Fearless

Holly Hunter - The Piano
Angela Bassett - What's Love Got To Do With It?

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Not to take anything away from Sean Penn, but I think Mickey Rourke deserved an Oscar for The Wrestler and Bill Murray perhaps should've gotten it for Lost in Translation. Then again, if Penn had lost to Rourke and Murray he wouldn't have been the two time winner that he is, and that he deserves to be.

I really like Benicio del Toro, but I think that Joaquin Phoenix pulled it off in Gladiator. I think his portrayal of Commodus is absolutely heartbreaking. Wouldn't say that the del Toro pick was unfair though. And it was a tough year - Jeff Bridges (The Contender), Albert Finney (Erin Brockovich) and Willem Dafoe (Shadow of the Vampire) were the other nominees for best supporting actor in 2001.

What I just can't understand though is how the academy in 2005 failed to recognize and acknowledge the fantastic achievement that Paul Giamatti pulled off in Sideways. Gimatti - this remarkably underrated actor - should not only have been nominated, he should have won, imo. Jamie Foxx's depiction of Ray Charles is admirable, but to be honest more of an caricature rather than a character creation. Of the rest of the nominees, I was really impressed only by DiCaprio in The Aviator. Don Cheadle was good in Hotel Rwanda, but it wasn't his best performance and in a film that is - let's come out and say it - not particularly good, no matter how horrific and important the subject may be. Clint Eastwood in Million Dollar Baby - decent. Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland - ok, so he can talk with a british accent, we know that already. Piece of crap movie, btw.

No, the more I get to think about it the more upsetting the fact that Gimatti wasn't even nominated in 2005 is to me. And the more odd it seems that Thomas Haden Church was nominated for his performance in Sideways. He was good, but not near as good as Giamatti.

Grrrrr......

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I believe in 2000 55 Oscars were robbed on route to the event. They were later recovered near a trash bin. Orson Welles, Woopi Goldberg and William Hurt all had there Oscars robbed from them. Margret O'Brien recovered her Oscar 20 years after it was stolen.

Wasn't me. However, if I'd have had the chance... I WILL DEFEAT YOU, SATAN!

Last year. THe best movie, or at least the best movie I saw of 2010, should have been nominated for best picture, especially at a time when there are 10 nominees and I wouldn't have hesitated to say Clooney should have been nominated for best actor, and I'm not really even a fan of his.

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Good call. I love The Pawnbroker as the movie is absolutely heartbreaking and Rod Steiger is intense and painful to watch in it. Painful in that he is that damn good playing such a tragic character it almost makes you sick to your stomach. There's a few movies I'll watch where afterwards I just feel ill, and that's one of them.

I have not seen the Richard Burton film.

And I'm a huge fan of Lee Marvin, but Cat Ballou is hardly his best performance - not by a long shot. In my mind he was better at comedy in the unfairly snubbed Paint Your Wagon. Hell even that buddy Navy movie he did with John Wayne is decent and showed he could do comedy so I don't know why it was some revelation in Cat Ballou.

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Holy crap! How did I forget the Oscar snub for the greatest performance in cinematic history:

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Leonardo DiCaprio should have won best supporting actor 1993 for his role as Arnie Grape in What's Eating Gilbert Grape.

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Leo DiCaprio for What's Eating Gilbert Grape and/or The Aviator. Blood Diamond...I'm still iffy on that one (his accent was pretty damn awesome though), but Forest Whitaker was astounding, so I can't say that Leo should've won over him.

Stanley Kubrick for any of his films.

Malcolm McDowell for A Clockwork Orange. I'm still shaking my head for him not getting even a nod.

Morgan Freeman for The Shawshank Redemption.

Al Pacino for Donnie Brasco, Serpico, and The Godfather (1 and 2). He deserved the win for Scent of a Woman, but these other roles were some of his best, in my opinion.

Tom Hanks for Cast Away. I love Gladiator, but Russell Crowe's performance is a bit overrated.

Martin Scorsese for Goodfellas, Raging Bull, and Taxi Driver. Glad to know he got a win for The Departed though, since I love that movie.

The Shawshank Redemption or Pulp Fiction over Forrest Gump (overrated film, even though I personally enjoy it.)

Brokeback Mountain for Best Picture. Seriously...Crash won?!?! How?!

Inception was robbed as well, especially for Best Original Score and Best Picture, as was The Social Network (King's Speech was good though, so I'm iffy on it.)

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I know Meryl Streep has already won 2 academy awards but I do think there have been several times when she should have won, when she was in Doubt, I think that was an oscar-worthy performance! she deserves another one soon!