Robbed of an Oscar

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

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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.

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

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.

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?

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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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

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.

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

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.)

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!