You Can Take Any One Academy Award Away...

... from whichever film or performer won it, in any given year; and give it, instead, to one of the other official nominees listed in that category, for that year.


EXAMPLE: Best Actor Award (1983)


Actual Winner: Ben Kingsley (Gandhi)


New Winner: Peter O'Toole (My Favorite Year)

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I'd take away the Best Picture Oscar from: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

and give it to: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

I would take away Will Smith's Oscar for King Richard. And then tease Andrew Garfield, Benedict Cumberbatch, Denzel Washington and Javier Bardem with it before yelling PSYCHE! and running away giggling like a little girl.

So many BP winners. Heck, so many great films that weren’t even nominated for BP. So many great foreign films that weren’t even nominated for Best International film. Like Come and See

But seriously.

Best Actor Award (2003)

Actual Winner: Adrien Brody (The Pianist)

New Winner: Daniel Day Lewis (Gangs of New York)

Oh, yesssssssssssss.

I would take away the Best Picture award from Everything Everwhere All At Once and give it to The Banshees of Inisherin.

I would take away Shakespeare In Loves Best Picture Oscar and give it to Saving Private Ryan. Speilberg was Weinsteined.

We are now officially blood brothers.

I am glad I am not alone in believing in this objective truth. haha

1968 Academy Awards

Original Winner: In The Heat of The Night
Original Winner: Rod Steiger

New Winner: The Graduate
New Winner: Sidney Poiter or Dustin Hoffman.


ITHOTN was still a good movie, but The Graduate was still a greater movie. Also, even though Rod Steiger did great, I give the nod to Sidney Poiter for that movie and can not believe he was not nominated for that film.

So many picks but for me


1978 - The Deer Hunter
Halloween

I'm sure if I spent more than five minutes thinking/researching, I'd come up with several better answers, but the < 5 mins of effort version is:

Take away Best Picture from Titanic, give it to L.A. Confidential.

The version where I put more time and thought into this would almost definitely still have me swapping Best Picture winners, regardless.

My least favorite of modern Best Pictures that I've seen is Moonlight (2016), and I would replace it with The Witch. Moonlight had a decent enough story in the first two acts, but the third act was just shameless manipulation that felt like social politics propaganda and just contrived. It's one of those post Obama intersectionality based films where it gets the clap treatment more for its posturing on social issues and in fashion trends than quality of film or otherwise.

The Witch on the other hand is a genre picture that is perfect in every way, and is a dark atmospheric slow burn journey into things falling a part and a weird existential dread in a black and white toned nightmare of good getting its ass handed to it by evil. . It genuinely evoked emotions of unease and discomfort in me, which only a few horror films have ever done.

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Feel like people are missing this part...

...which honestly is what makes this interesting as opposed to trying to validate any number of horror movies that never had a snowball's chance in Hell of getting a Best Picture nomination.

Anyway, I'd give Barry Lyndon Best Picture over One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

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Julianne Moore in Boogie Nights instead of Kim Basinger in L.A. Confidential for Best Supporting Actress (1997). Basinger is good, but I believe she won because it made for a good comeback story first and for her work second.

I love this topic and couldn't possibly narrow it down to one Oscar, but I must agree with the previous post about Kim Basinger's Oscar to its rightful owner, Julianne Moore.

Also:

Elizabeth Taylor's Oscar for BUtterfield 8 should go to its rightful owner, Shirley MacLaine for The Apartment


George Burns stole the 1975 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor from its rightful winner, Brad Dourif for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest


Glenda Jackson's second Oscar for A Touch of Class really belongs to Ellen Burstyn for The Exorcist


And how did Art Carney win the Oscar that should have gone to Al Pacino for Godfather II or Jack Nicholson for Chinatown?

Another travesty corrected:

Best Actress Award (1983)

Actual Winner: Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice)

New Winner: Jessica Lange (Frances)

I'm an Art Carney fan, and I absolutely back this posting, 1000%.