Great Movies with zero Oscar Nominations? - Page 2

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A lot of these would be foreign films. In addition to the films mentioned, I put the major categories for the following that I thought was worth a nomination.

Hugh and Low (best actor, foreign language film, picture, screenplay)
M (best picture, foreign language film, actor, director, screenplay, cinematography, sound, the whole nine yards)
Metropolis (see above)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (at least for score and cinematography)
Alexander Nevsky (arguably the greatest film score ever written, not nominated; others: cinematography, set and costume design)
Duck Soup (for best picture, at least over She Done Him Wrong)
Beauty and the Beast (1946) (for cinematography and set design)
Rififi (picture, director, actor, cinematography, editing)

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Well Adam, at least you and I know how great Miller's Crossing is, even if it doesn't appear it will be making the list.

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Such is life. One man's over-the-top sadistically violent grand guignol trash is another man's over-the-top sadistically violent grand guignol treasure.

Regards,

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Jeremiah Johnson, a Sydney Pollack film starring Robert Redford seems to have fallen from favor among film buffs and has become a little known gem. Constantly referenced in other films, I still consider it a "must see" and of course, a great film.

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I would be interested to see which movies have been successful at the box office AND received good critical reviews, but nonetheless failed to receive any (or few) oscar nominations.

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You'll likely find lots of action or sci-fi or comedies in that list. For a recent example, look at 2006's Casino Royale. $165m gross US, 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, not a single nod from the Academy.

I think it'd be VERY VERY easy to find more movies in the same boat. There must be hundreds of them...

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It is a rarer occurence than you might think. Very well reviewed action and sci-fi films generally get at least one or two technical nominations.

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I'm still annoyed with Dreamgirls for taking three of the five spots for Best Song, thus denying CR a deserved spot for "You Know My Name". I love that song.

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I think, in general, that's right. But it doesn't explain 4 noms for Pirates DMC, which wasn't very well reviewed but got 4 technical noms. Star Wars:TPM, which also got lukewarm reviews, also got 3 technical noms (it's a bit of a farce in my book that a far better reviewed Star Wars movie (ROTS) only got one nom).

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Well there was a ton more competition in 2005 than there was in 1999 in those three categories Phantom Menace was nominated in. correct me if I'm wrong but the prequels struck out completely on winning any oscars, right? who would have predicted that back in 98?

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Adam:

There might have been more competition but Lucas also made a much better movie too, in most people's opinion any way.

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Agree with Chris regarding Sith...the lack of visual or sound nominations were quite sobering and well, rather stupid. And I know Williams got the nom for Memoirs of a Geisha the same year but the ROTS score was at least as deserving and one of the better scores of the decade. By that's just my opinion.

Alot of great films get snubbed and some bad ones get rewarded. Alot of great films BOMB at the box office and some real duds go on to make a zillion like DMC. Not a fair business or even a consistent one.

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I think the Attack of the Clones score was possibly the strongest of any of the prequel scores, though all three were worthy of nominations. what's astonishing is how the film was snubbed in all the crafts like art direction, makeup and costumes nearly every year.

interestingly enough, Only Star Wars won a competitive Visual effects oscar, Empire and Jedi both got special achievement awards.

it would have been really cool if RotS, King Kong and War of the Worlds were all nominated simultaneously, the three reigning kings and promoters of visual effects in film competing against each other. But Grievious had none of the impact of Kong, and the constructed environments and spaceships had all been seen and done before just as much (if not better) in Attack of the Clones, both Kong and Narnia felt new and fresh in comparison to star wars, and I guess the same can be said of War of the Worlds. Just having lightsabers didn't cut it any more. :p

on the other hand the reason Lord of the Rings took a three year sweep was because each installment offered dramatic additions. The first film for the visual trickery of scale, the Balrog and immensity of enviroments and cgi camera work. The second film offered Gollum, which blew people's minds away, and the third film had MASSIVE battles (much bigger than Helm's deep) as well as Shelob and Mount Doom (as well as the overall achievement). Revenge of the Sith really didn't feel all that different, visual effects wise, from anything seen in Attack of the Clones or Phantom Menace.

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Eh, this isn't really where I wanted to take the discussion. No point in rehasing this debate again.

I thought the ROTS score was by far the best of the prequels, and only bested by ESB in the OT. I thought ROTS should have received a score nom, a costume nom, and an art direction nom. I didn't really care about the effects or sound categories.

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Well The Color Purple comes to mind for being snubbed at the oscars.

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However, it had plenty of Oscar nominations.

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Here are a pair of lists that show films that won NO oscars and films that were not nominated at all:

http://www.filmsite.org/noawards.html#1