Academy Awards Snubs (1 Viewer)

[Vickie_M]

It's silly, but it was on cable this morning and it's fresh in my mind...

Nick Nolte and Mac Davis for North Dallas Forty.

I hate football, and I don't understand one bit of the talk of plays, but damn I love that movie.



Jackson, Walsh and Boyens for Adapted Screenplay for The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and Return of the King (I might as well mourn now).

 

[DougFND]

He got nominated at least, but I would have loved to have seen a win for Al Pacino as Big Boy Caprice in "Dick Tracy".

 

[ChuckSolo]

Since when was Robert Duvall in the 1978 version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers?" Did you mean Donald Sutherland or perhaps Leonard Nimoy? Sorry, no Robert Duvall in that one. Jeff Goldblum yes, Mr. Duvall,....um .....NO.

 

[ZacharyTait]

Shawshank was nominated for 7 awards. Best Picture, Actor, Cinematography, Editing, Original Score, Sound, and Adapted Screenplay.

Morgan Freeman was nominated for Supporting Actor for Street Smart, Actor for Driving Miss Daisy and Shawshank Redemption.

I'm going to add to my list of snubs the following:

Frank Darabont for Best Director for Shawshank Redemption.

Tim Robbins for Supporting Actor for Shawshank Redemption.

The list could go on forever.....

 

[ScottR]

Tim Curry-The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Margaret Hamilton-The Wizard of Oz
Donna Reed-It's A Wonderful Life
Boris Karloff-Frankenstein
Colin Clive-Frankenstein
Judy Garland-Meet Me in St. Louis
Jeremy Irons-The Lion King
Tom Cruise-Interview With the Vampire
Christopher Reeve-Superman: The Movie
Marilyn Monroe-Bus Stop and Some Like it Hot
Natalie Wood-West Side Story

Should have won:

Anthony Perkins-Psycho
Judy Garland-A Star is Born (1954)
Clark Gable-Gone With the Wind
Ingrid Bergman-Casablanca
Humphrey Bogart-Casablanca
Mary McDonnell-Dances With Wolves
Marlon Brando-A Streetcar Named Desire
Henry Fonda-The Grapes of Wrath

Should have won Best Picture:

Beauty and the Beast
The Grapes of Wrath
Citizen Kane
Mary Poppins
The Exorcist
Star Wars
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Ten Commandments


Best Picture Nomination Snubs:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Meet Me in St. Louis
A Star is Born (1954)
Steel Magnolias
Superman: The Movie
King Kong (1933)
Frankenstein (1931)
The Lion King

 

[Robert Anthony]

Just thought of two others:

"A Beautiful Mind" beating out "The Fellowship of the Ring," for best adapted screenplay. The "Beautiful Mind" screenplay was so pedestrian.

On a lesser scale, while "The Pianist" was a GREAT adaptation, I don't think any film that year should have won EXCEPT for "Adaptation" by Spike Jonze.

"Goodfellas" not winning either Best Director OR Best Picture. Really no explanation needed. "Dances with Wolves" is a great movie, yes, but I don't think it approaches Scorsese's masterpiece. I honestly think "Goodfellas" is a better movie than "The Godfather," and it's THIS CLOSE to knocking off "the Godfather Part II"

 

[Steve Christou]

um... yes he was! Watch the first 10 minutes carefully...

...or check out the IMDB

 

[Nick Sievers]

Adaptation was not up against A Beautiful Mind it was one year later.

 

[Rajvir]

Personally I think Nic Cage should have been awarded with an Oscar nomination for his work in Matchstick Men. I think Cage was absolutely terrific in that film and was back to his best. He hasn't made the greatest of career choices over the last 5 years but his work in MM was a breath of fresh air. He nailed the part of the phobic con artist and it's a role that he could have easily overracted.

 

[Robert Anthony]

Thanks for the catch, Nick. I knew that sounded off, but I was too lazy to check IMDB.

okay, let me revise...


there.

 

[Kevin Grey]

I completely agree that Goodfellas is better than Wolves but I find it hard to fault the Academy. They both dazzled (in very different ways) upon release but Goodfellas has clearly stood the test of time better. Its like complaining about Shawshank Redemption losing Best Picture- how many people were really up in arms about it after the '94 Oscars? Its only much later, after its attained classic status, that it seems so unjustly overlooked. The fact that Scorcese has yet to win an Oscar just adds fuel to the Goodfellas fire, particularly because it was really his last Oscar quality work (though I do have a soft spot for Casino). Had Scorcese won for Raging Bull I don't think there would be as much harping on Goodfellas loss. I think some of the concern about Goodfellas' loss comes from the worry that he may not produce another film of its caliber again.

I also think Costner's subsequent career nosedive has caused a lot of people to not remember Wolves fondly. I think his disaster with The Postman has caused a lot of people to think maybe Wolves was a fluke, although Open Range has done a bit to remedy that feeling.

This isn't necessarily directed at you, Robert. I've just seen this one come up quite a bit and I think its one of those decisions that's really only become clear as the years go on.

In a way, figuring out Oscar snubs is easy- just look at the list with a few yeaars distance and it becomes pretty apparent which film now stands out. If that film didn' win- it was a snub. Except the Academy never has the ability to put some perspective when it selects its awards.

 

[Robert Ringwald]

I think it's a widely known fact that the Oscars ignore MANY deserving people for other material.

I personally think Boys Don't Cry got shafted for best original screenplay, best director, best picture (the nominations and win for actress/supporting actress were well deserved. Though angelina jolie's girl interrupted performance paled in comparison to chloe sevigny)

Almost Famous deserved at least a nomination for best picture.

 

[Robert Anthony]

I agree with you Kevin, but in the case of Goodfellas, I could tell right away that movie was going to be timeless. It always impressed me more than Dances with Wolves.

I share your soft spot for Casino. I only wish the editing had been a LITTLE tighter.

James Woods gives one of his best performances in that movie

 

[Jason_Els]

Hell YES! Stunning performance. Roberts wasn't even in the same class.

Another one that really bothers me is Ralph Fiennes not winning Best Supporting actor for Schindler's List. What an astonishing performance that was.

1990 was a horrible year for Oscar snubs.

Supporting Actress:
Lorraine Bracco Goodfellas lost to Whoopi Goldberg for Ghost.

Editing:
Thelma Schoonmaker Goodfellas lost to Neil Travis Dances With Wolves

Original Score:
John Barry Dances With Wolves won and the best score of the year, Danny Elfman's Edward Scissorhands, wasn't even nominated.


1994 saw Pulp Fiction lose every catagory where it challenged, to Forest Gump except for Supporting Actor, which went to Landau in Ed Wood (which he definitely deserved IMHO).

 

[Michael Patrick]

Mr. Holland's Opus, starring Richard Dreyfuss was a big oversight by the Academy. Leaving Las Vegas was horrible and it won. I can also add The Sixth Sense being snubbed in favor of the repulsive American Beauty.

 

[Yee-Ming]

I'm surprised that no one's brought up the usual bugbear, Shakespeare In Love beating Saving Private Ryan. Although this has been discussed extensively in earlier threads.

 

[Ernest Rister]

"Would probably have been too controversial anyway due to the computer animation, but I think his performance was the most compelling to me in the entire trilogy."

I think Sean Bean deserved a nod for Fellowship. I knew it was a long shot in 2001, and so I wasn't surprised to see him not mentioned, but to me, his work still remains the best of the trilogy.

Biggest Academy Snub of All Time:

The shameless treatment of The Color Purple, with so many nominations without a single win, and to rub salt in the wound, the Academy topped it all off by giving a back-handed bitch-slap to the face of Steven Spielberg by not nominating him for such an honored film. Maybe I'm wrong, but that has to be most famous display of peer jealousy and resentment in the entire history of the AMPAS. Nothing to my mind even comes close.

 

[DonMac]

For the current Oscars, Sean Astin not getting a Best Supporting Actor nod for The Return of the King was a snub, especially considering all the nominations the film got in so many other categories.

(Although looking at all of the nomination the three LOTR films have gotten over the past three year and that the sole acting nod was for Ian McKellen in the first film, I guess Sean Astin's snub isn't really all that surprising.)

 

[Ernest Rister]

Yeah, but the snub is only going to help him win votes the next time he does exceptional work. He'll get rewarded for his new work, and he'll get a boost because he was overlooked for ROTK. Welcome to the AMPAS.

 

[Yee-Ming]

Sounds a bit like Pacino's and Newman's acting Oscars for performances that didn't really compare to earlier ones where they'd been snubbed. But will Astin have to wait till he's in his 50s-60s for his "long service award" Oscar?