Gwyneth Paltrow win Best Actress by “Shakespeare in Love” over Cate Blanchett in “Elizabeth” or Fernanda Montenegro in “Central Station” never makes sense. Never.
Montenegro was robbed. That was just so beautiful and affecting. Also to do with the Oscar's aversion to none English speaking roles and very narrow view of the world. Paltrow is just mediocre at best
Spielberg was robbed so many times. I also find crazy that Angela Bassett lost to Holly Hunter in 1993. I mean Hunter is amazing in that role, but Bassett as Tina Turner is one of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen.
I mean it was very disputed between the two, i prefer angela perfomance too, but holly hunter was astonishing too, it's not a robberry, now with spielberg i agree one hundred percent.
@@matheusalefe1644 to me the main difference is that Hunter did an amazing performance while Bassett delivered one of the greatest of all time and it’s still underrated, as the movie itself which I think is one of the best biopics ever made. Also the fact that Tina in the US wasn’t as huge as she was in the rest of the planet.
I lived in L.A and worked on the fringes of Hollywood for a number of years. Hollywood is high school and the Oscars are prom night. The popular kids win Prom King and Queen, and it doesn't really mean anything in the long run.
A little secret in life - just about every work place is like high school too. Who you first eat lunch with will mean a lot. Who you shoot the breeze with too. And in the first couple days somebody will try and get the story on your dating status, etc. EVERYTHING you say about yourself and how you say it will affect your status above and beyond your job title/authority.
Exactly. The Oscars are industry trade awards, insiders honoring each other in what is essentially a popularity contest. The passage of time reveals if the choice was a good one, often a movie that went on to become a timeless classic lost to a film that is mostly forgotten. Best actor and best actress are completely arbitrary, in recent decades the intent has moved from honoring esteemed peers to making a political statement about the role. Tom Hanks is a fine actor, but his Oscar winning performance in "Philadelphia" was maudlin and over the top. Probably one of his worst, but it was about a gay man with AIDS fighting homophobia so it was tapped for the award. Gotta virtue signal.
Sandra Bullock’s Best Actress win has aged poorly given that The Blind Side is not a good movie, her performance is nothing special, literally everyone else in that category should’ve won over her and her performance in Gravity a few years later was 10x better
@@smurfyboy92 Not to mention all the drama surrounding Michael Oher and the Tuohy family regarding the nature of their conservatorship last year. It’s hard to even think about that movie knowing all that.
@@Charlotte8591 The Revenant was over hyped for the environmental conditions the actor was put in, especially about how he acted in a CGI bear attack scene and climbed into a carcass. I don’t find any of that impressive. The dialogue and everything else about that character and story was just kinda “blah” to me. There wasn’t much actual acting and emoting to do in that film. TWoWS comes across as the pinnacle of his career with how fully engaged he was in that character. The entire scene where the character is severely drugged up and driving/crashing the car and slowly struggling to crawl across the floor really nailed it for me.
@@SpiritHawk7 my opinion isn't based on the hype but on the movie itself and his performance in it. I thought that drug scene in Wolf of Wall Street was hilarious, not sure about oscar worthy. We have different opinions. It's fine.
When I saw Gwyneth Paltrow was on your list, I couldn't recall which film she won for. My mind honestly stuttered and I thought "What did she win for?? Shallow Hal?"
Paltrow had no business winning that award. It was a good performance in a good film, certainly not memorable or worthy of such an accolade. Fernanda Montenegro's performance as Dora is one of such gravitas and pathos, so moving and so human. That was an Oscar worthy performance. Blanchett in Elizabeth was another tour de force performance. This win, along with Crash besting Brokeback Mountain (and there many others) are the two that stick with me the most. Heath Ledger losing to Philip Seymour Hoffman (who was great, I'm not downplaying his performance) was also disappointing because Ledger was in a league of his own.
And again - a person that did not understand, how hard comedy is. Paltrow floats through this movie. This is great acting. Much greater than being pathetic.
Gwenny (the hilarious moniker Cynical Reviews gave her) didn’t deserve a trophy let alone a nomination. Kevin Kline winning for “A Fish Called Wanda” was a deserved win for comedy as he really is funny & the performance was memorable. Plus knowing what monster campaigned her win taints it even more
George C. Scott was correct when he said give all five actors the same part and thereafter judge who did the best job. But five different actors playing five different parts and then slapping the label 'Best' on one of them is just stupid.
Movies that did not win are: It's a Wonderful Life, Jaws, JFK, The Exorcist, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Taxi Driver, etc. All of them are phenomenally great movies. Oscar frequently gets it worong.
Bro, I love The Departed but Leo was the weakest part of that movie. Maybe it's due to the natural setting, but Marky Mark, the poorer actor, walked all over him.
Dances with Wolves felt pretty groundbreaking at the time. I think its tone and style have been copied a lot since then so it doesn't feel that unique anymore, but at the time it was quite different from things we'd seen before. Same with Rocky. Hard to overstate how impactful Rocky was at that time.
100%, although to be fair he did say Rocky could keep the Best Picture gong. The original Rocky has been tarnished by it's ever diminishing quality of sequels and imitators but that first film is a genuine classic.
@@hertor8803The Rocky Sequels have not at all been ever diminishing in quality. 5 is the clear low point, 3 and 4 are silly, 2 and especially 6 are both amazing Sequels, and all three Creed movies are pretty excellent in their own ways, too. They're certainly not ever diminishing, and if anything, especially after the silliness of 3 and 4 and the low point of 5, they actually got better over time.
Rocky is a far better movie than Dances with Wolves. You can watch Rocky today and it's as fresh and impactful as it was in 1976. Dances with Wolves, on the other hand, while enjoyable is a corny politically correct fantasy with ham fisted messaging that seems embarrassing in retrospect.
@@thareelhelloagain In my mind, there is a trilogy for Rocky: Rocky (1976), Rocky II (1979), and Rocky Balboa (2006). The other movies I regard as standalone spinoffs, some of them are downright silly. if you disregard them the character arc in the 3 movies is brilliant and moving.
Agree with most, but Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful is one of the most beautiful, heart breaking, but inspiring movies I have ever seen. I’ve seen it numerous times and it brings me to tears every time.
Cate Blanchett should have won over Gwenyth Paltrow. But at the time, Blanchett was a Hollywood unknown. But it's no contest who ended up with the better career.
This is a bit disingenuous simply because we know what Gwenyth endured from Weinstein. He pushed SIL to sweep the Oscars in 99. Don’t know why Gwenyth gets so much hate for the win when it’s somewhat public knowledge what happened behind the scenes.
Cate Blanchett was almost completly unknown by that time. Her nomination was the maximum she could reach for such a convervative Academy we had at that time and Paltrow was the closest we had to a Hollywood start in the nineties. I am always surprised about this extended complaint.
Thank you for reminding me why I stopped paying attention to the Oscars. Weinstein destroyed any credibility this ceremony had prior. Not sure when it will recover...
I don't get why you say Weinstein destroyed any credibility for this ceremony... For me, they lose all credibility by themselves when they compromise artistic choice to promote DEI agenda, removing great talents to let poor diverse ones entering the contest. Weinstein is a monster, but, from memory, he was in the business during 3 decades... Blaming him for "Oscar credibility fall" would mean you considerate it never really was credible during your lifetime, and i'm confident to say there was real good well deserved and impartial wins during the time he was active. Seems like you use fallacious reasoning here, to make a parallel between things unrelated: Oscar credibility / Weinstein exposure. It would be like saying Germany lost all credibility because of Hitler's doing, to make a really over the top comparison, but i guess you see the idea.
Couldn't agree more about Sidney Lumet never winning a competitive Oscar. What is that about? The thing that's the real head scratcher for me is that David Fincher's 'Zodiac' wasn't nominated for anything whatsoever. That film is absolutely incredible.
@@professionalspinner9292EEAAO won a bunch of awards that don’t seem that deserving. Until you look at the alternatives. It wasn’t a great year for movies. The other supporting actresses may (or may not) have been a bit better. But nobody stood out so they gave a career award. Whatever.
Al Pacino got what I call an "Apology Oscar." It's not that the role wasn't good, but the Academy gave him an Oscar because it's been a while & he deserved it. Definitely did, but for a stronger role. I feel the same way for Whoopi Goldberg's win for Ghost. That movie would NOT have been as successful without her & it was well deserved, but her performance in The Color Purple was better.
One of the reasons Whoopi won for Ghost was she had done another movie that year in which she had turned in a better performance The Long Walk Home which bombed at the box office. The Academy knew she very likely wouldn't win for that movie which was from a smaller studio & had very little publicity whereas Ghost made a ton of money & was a favorite with the general public
@LoneRanger-et7gq Age of Innocence? You go too far! Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, and Raging Bull? Yes. I'd rate The Departed at about the same level as Casino. Age of Innocence has a big Winona Ryder problem. She's great in contemporary roles but generally falls on her face in period pieces.
They're just a popularity contest. Any member of the Academy, from actors to make-up artists, can vote for any category even if they have no idea about it, so most of them tend to vote based on what they've personally seen (probably didn't even bother watching all the contenders) and then what they feel is popular opinion.
Emily Watson's portrayal of cellist Jacqueline Du Pré was heart-wrenching and breathtaking. She deserved that win over Paltrow. If you haven't seen the movie, go watch it. It's fantastic and the Du Pré family agreed
I thought Shawshank got the shaft. Yes, FG good feel good, historically accurate fun film. But the level of acting greatness is from start to finish in Shawshank.
Sleepers was based on a true story, adolescent rape by adults in an administrative system. It was 1994, people still not yet comfortable addressing the subject. Shawshank also dealt with male forcing male into sex, like with ‘the sisters’. I’m counselor, those topics really challenged to address. Of course, now we do a much better job with these terrible truths. Maybe Oscars ought to be a joint ballot decision 50% SAG, 50 % popular vote (1 vote each). I think it would certainly be more representative of truly impactful films & their crews
Apart from LGBT themes in Shawshank Redemption, that film doesn't leave any impact on viewers. Freeman and Robbins played flat roles with flat delivery.
Even its director was puzzled they won Best Picture. The Academy was even polled over a decade later and the members said that they would’ve actually chosen “Brokeback Mountain” instead compared to 2005; well way too late to reverse that, isn’t it
I come from Brazil, specifically from the Northeast, where Central Station was filmed (yeah, that semi-desert place that almost no one thinks it exist in a country supposed to be full of rainforests) and I am really glad that you mentioned Fernanda Montenegro. We brazilians hold a grudge towards Gwyneth. 😂
I'm from Brazil too and would give that Oscar for Cate Blanchett. But years later I would drop her Oscar for The aviator and give it to Natalie Portman.
@gabbyb7347 a few years ago Glenn Close remembered it saying she was shocked that Gwyneth won over Fernanda, so I guess it's remembered by some important people at least 😅
The definition of not aging well has to be Kramer vs Kramer over Apocalypse Now for best picture in 1979. Kramer was a good movie, but was strictly entertainment without much longevity . Apocalypse is still discussed today, not only from the view of entertainment, but as a social commentary , it's artistic achievements, and philosophical qualities. It also had a successful and profound documentary on how it was made. Of course in 1979 they would not have known how renowned the film would be, even 45 years later.
The award that sticks in my craw is "Shakespeare in Love" winning over "Saving Private Ryan". The greatest war movie ever made losing to a mid-level period piece? WTF.
I love period films but Shakespear in Love was just meh for me. Private Ryan should have won and if not that, Elizabeth was a much better period film than SiL. I think people obsessed about Paltrow the way they obsessed about Grace Kelly, who won best actress for her mediocre performance in The Country Girl, over Judy Garland in A Star us Born. Both were bright faces of the moment and anything they were in was automatically elevated perceptually, at the time. I recently rewatched Grace in Dial M for Murder and thought how lucky she was to look as good as she did because there really wasn't much more going on except a lot of protracted and unnatural annunciation. As for Paltrow, these days when I hear her referrenced, all it brings to mind is her vagina scented candles.... 😒
I don't agree with the choice of Dances with wolves being on this list. However, a win that hasn't aged well that should be here is Best Actress 2010 - Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side. Every other person in that category was better in my opinion and she was a distant Number 5.
I agree 100% with you on both statements. Dances With Wolves is a remarkable film. One of my all time favourites and I can't really find any real flaws in it apart from both main characters just happening to be white, I suppose. I mean that in itself is fine, but considering the cirumstances it's bizarre. Why not just let the female star be a native american?
@@dj71162 He's already talked about Sandra in his series rating the Best Actress wins of recent years. He knows the Blind Side is not close to her best work.
Not a win but Jennifer Lawrence getting a best lead actress nomination in joy. A forgettable movie and performance. Who still remembers joy? This nomination should have gone to charlize theron for mad max
@@HalfdanMCMX I don’t think you understand what a masterclass in subtlety and physicality that performance that was. It’s ranked 16 in the best female performances of all time on Cinema Archives.
I read a story that all the other nominees planned to not even show up to the ceremony. They all went out and got hammered after Bengini won is also how the story goes
@@aisharedux781 and he was awesome in Lord of the rings. There definitely should have been an Oscar coming his way or at least a nomination. That anti- fantasy bias was a killer.
@@Diamonddogusa Yep. Lawrence of Arabia is arguably the greatest acting performance in film history. Gregory Peck won that year for To Kill a Mockingbird which was a fine performance, but nothing compared to O'Toole.
You are missing Roman Polanski winning Best Director. All those actors and directors on video giving a man in hiding overseas, because of what he did. And then several Oscars later those same people wore a pin for Me Too. That was a bad night for Hollywood. Daniel Day Lewis also deserved the Oscar for Best Actor that year. Poor Halle Berry.
@ no studio should’ve given him the opportunity to make “The Pianist”. He should’ve been in jail. It aged even worse when Adrien Brody won Best Actor and French kissed Halle Berry without her permission. Daniel Day Lewis as Bill The Butcher is arguably his best role and on par with Daniel Plainview. Day Lewis won most acting association awards for Best Actor including BAFTA and SAG. Jack Nicholson won Best Actor in a Drama at the Golden Globes. The Oscars were the only major association and one of the very few globally Brody won for The Pianist. The Academy knew those 2 were bad awards. Many voters have come out and said their votes were wrong and the Academy has disabled comments on their RUclips page and edited the crowds reaction.
Gwyneth is charming and cute in Shakespeare in Love, she by no means should’ve won the Oscar, but it’s not a fraction as bad as Judi Dench’s Best Supporting Actress win. She shows up for 8 minutes in a big dress, isn’t even that good or memorable, and wins the Oscar? Even in the weaker 1999 lineup for Best Supporting Actress, there is no reason on earth she should’ve won.
I have to disagree, whilst I'm no fan of the win, I'd have gone with Brenda Blethyn, she is by no means bad, it's Judi Dench even at her best she is leagues ahead. In fact in the little time she is given, she gives a full Shakespearean performance full of breadth and majesty, it's just a shame it's a cameo, which for me is why she should not have won, but staying on theme and connecting it back, we all know why she got it, because the Academy realised that a year earlier they were wrong and she should've won for Mrs. Brown, awarding her for SS, so one bad decision had a knock on effect a year later.
Judi Dench is unwatchable. She just always plays herself with that hard, grating voice. She’s in a few voice ads on radio and as soon as I hear her I switch the radio off.
I attended an Oscar party that was a fundraiser in San Francisco which “crash,“ won for best picture. The reaction in the room was shock. Then disappointment, then more shock and disbelief.
@@68404 fu#$ the Dems and fu#$ Trump--This time if Trump messes up it will be those who voted for him to Be Blamed NINNYS! Inflation was lowered -- Biden was unpopular and Harris couldn't distinguish herself from him--We'll see!
I am STILL angry over the fact that Saving Private Ryan did not win best picture. Denzel not winning for Malcolm X and Pacino not winning for The Godfather are also on my list of things that still make me angry, Oscar awards wise.
@@itsjemmabond omg, you are so right. That performance, Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon is in my top 10 favorite acting performances of all time. It was absolutely superb. Good call!
Y'all are forgetting the SPR was basically a remake of "The Fighting Sullivans." It's well-directed, but everything in the script after minute 20 was pastiche.
We cant firget the cultural juggernaut Dances With Wolves was at the time. You couldnt escape it, and Costner was being treated as a modern prophet for Indigenous rights.
It's probably why it won. Everything is politics, and DWW came out at the right time to ride that particular wave. If Brokeback Mountain had come out a decade later it would have won too, because the cultural zeitgeist was there as it perhaps was not in 2005.
@@ShanghaiRooster Or perhaps Brokeback wouldnt have been so groundbreaking 10 years later because it's solid but not nearly as AMAZEBALLS as people like to claim. The fact that there was nothing else like it at the time is why it's so hyped. It's a solid movie with great performances, nothing more. I would say the overhype is more 'cultural wave' than DWW, by far.
What mystifies me about Crash is that it not only was way worse than Brokeback Mountain, but the category was stacked that years. Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, and Munich all deserved to win over Crash too. While it may have been a vote against Brokeback to a degree, I think it was also a thinly veiled attempt to cater to the subject matter of Crash.
Crash had all the race narratives, which always takes priority over any other woke agenda. An alphabet movie is always a strong contender, but not if it's an all-white cast competing against a racial movie with a lot of black and Latin actors. Race > gender identity > sexual orientation > gender. That's the Oppression Hierarchy. The Oscars sticks to that like glue.
She only won that Oscar as she was the only American in that category. I remember that part so well the press saying she was going to win it as the Oscars at that time only ever went to American. It changed after that win as they realised the controversy around that win
I agree that Hunt wasn't the best performance of the year but I don't think her winning is a top ten type travesty. She was memorable in a very good movie.
On the plus side, we get to see his bunker speech over and over again, with new English subtitles, every time there's a major scandal or controversy in American politics.
@@SuperCosty2010 Yes. Did you even see the movie? He was incredible in his role. But Hollywood would never let it happen. Just like Ralph Fiennes not winning a supporting Oscar for his portrayal of Amon Goth in Schindler's List.
Please say that louder for the voters in the back. To be fair, I don't know if Jim Carrey should have won, but he should have at least received a nomination.
I feel like The Truman Show is more impressed with itself than it should be. Nothing about it was ever revelatory to me. I kept waiting for the big twist or for some other shoe to drop...and it never happened. Not close to Carrey's best performance either.
No. Terrible film. See it once, never again. Carrey is a drugged out looney at this point, but even I liked his work in 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'
Your number 1 pick was spot on! Crash was even included in a list of Worst Movies that same year it came out. Btw, you can hear the disappointment in Harrison Ford's voice as he announced Shakespeare in Love as the Best Picture winner. 🤭
I'm sorry but I don't get why A Star is Born was so well received. With the exception of Bradley Cooper's performance, which was fine(not amazing, but above average), and a few songs, everything about that movie was cheesy and cringeworthy. The dialogue, the acting, the tone, everything was so forced and badly handled. It's like I watched a different movie than the critics. It was overnominated and didn't deserve Best Picture/Director/Actress/Screenplay/Supporting Actor nominations, let alone wins.
Sidney Lumet not winning for Dog Day Afternoon, Network, or The Verdict is tragic. The Veridct, with Newman's performance of Mamet's best screenplay, was masterfully directed and should have been the one.
A shout-out to someone else who acknowledges what a great film The Verdict is. Almost nobody I mention this movie to has ever heard of it, which is a crying shame.
@johnniea4684 yes! Barry Reed has always been overshadowed by John Grisham. David Mamet did a great job adapting Reed's book, and Lumet let Newman be Newman.
@johnniea4684 yes, it hits different. Also, A Civil Action, which also beats Grisham. I think Grisham's The Rainmaker is a blend of both of these books.
I enjoyed watching it at the time, but have never had the urge to rewatch it. Meanwhile, I have seen Brokeback Mountain several times and would watch it again.
I don't blame people for being angry over "Brokeback Mountain" losing BP because of bigotry. But the Oscars are about a century old, and "Crash" is not a worse film than "Around The World In Eighty Days" which is nothing but three hours if cameo appearances of every star in Hollywood. The makers of this list and most of the comments aren't even considering films that were released before their lifetimes.
15:00 i do not even remember Crash but i sure remember Brokeback mountain and i am sure you are right. It was not a vote FOR it was a vote AGAINST. What a shame
I agree with this and also have the unpopular opinion that Paltrow and SIL deserved the wins (terrible about Weinstein, who also harassed her) but that Joseph Fiennes should have been nominated and won too.
What really gets me is that sappy, hagiographic biopics are automatically considered to be "serious enough" while excellent comedies get snubbed. (Especially biopics about royalty in England and Hollywood.) Most biopics are formulaic and revisionist and barely deserve our attention. The king has a stutter? So what? Millions of common folk are fighting a horrible war and this is where our attention should go? A speech impediment?
I completely agree with you. Begnini gave the performance of his life in that film. Comedy and the Holocaust - you would not think that could be a pairing. However, the better film on that would have been "Train de Vie" (Train of life) of French (!) film director Radu Mihaileanu. Award-worthy.
Not only that, but it's a drama directed and written by the guy behind films like "Dumb & Dumber", "The Heart Break Kid (remake)", "Movie 43", and "The Three Stooges (reboot)". He's known for dumb comedies. This was the man's first attempt at a more serious drama and it's just a soulless Oscar Bait film that goes through all the motions. It mimics everything highly acclaim films do without understanding why those talented directors made it that way.
Julia Roberts' aged the worst IMO. Almost no one talks about that forgettable film or her performance in it. Unsurprisingly, it's been relegated to the dustbin and is now essentially being used as filler on the Lifetime Network. Meanwhile, Requiem for a Dream is still widely viewed and continues to impress, and people are still blown away by Ellen Burstyn's amazing performance. No one can say the same about Roberts. As you said with Helen Hunt being a "popularity win," the same can be said for Julia. She was being rewarded for making the studios so much money not because she deserved it for that specific performance.
@@rickdesper Requiem probably holds the record for the best never rewatched movie. It's just TOO hard, and I can rewatch movies about bigger tragedies, this one is just too personal (nobody in my family is an addict, I can't even imagine how people who relate to it feel).
As others say here, I've always referred to Requiem as the best film I've ever seen that I can't possibly watch again. I have it, I just can't watch it again. It's so absolutely brutal. I feel pretty much the same way about "Saving Private Ryan." I've never been able to forgive Spielberg for those first 20-30 minutes.
Oscar's have always been more of a neocon boys club than anything else. Actors and actresses have always been rewarded for playing the roles the academy believes they SHOULD be in. How many women did they wait until they got naked to give them the award?
Not a win but meryl streep shouldn't have been nominated for Florence Foster Jenkins Rebecca Hall should have gotten that nomination for her heartbreaking performance in Christine
This same channel released a list of the top 10 underwhelming Oscar nominations (or something like that) and Streep's nomination for "Florence Foster Jenkins was on that list.
You nailed #1. CRASH isn’t even the best movie named CRASH. Honourable mention to the tedious TV movie called SPOTLIGHT. I think it’s called Spotlight, haven’t bothered to watch it again tbh. GREAT list breaux
@@Heathcoatman Lol, not a Catholic, but my, aren't you on a hair trigger? 20 years earlier it would have been something. try Amy Bergs DELIVER US FROM EVIL if you want to see how a pro takes them down. Spotlight was formulaic Oscar bait trash tbh
@@Heathcoatman The movie was a bunch of famous actors acting outraged; Mark Ruffalo was particularly cringe in it. SA within the Catholic church being exposed has been done since the early 1990s in Ireland and elsewhere. We just didnt think to make some star studded showcase for actors wringing their hands over it.
Gigi, the 1958 Best Picture winner, is the very definition of a movie that doesn't hold up well. It won 9 Oscars that year. It could not be made today.
Off course it could be made today, it's a fictional story set at the turn of the 19th century, it's not a documentary or instructional film on how to think, what are you going to ban next, horror films because people shouldn't commit murder? Ban any movie that doesn't sanitise reality past and present? When are you going to start burning books?
You hit the nail on the head when you said “popular.” I worked in the movie industry and the Oscars is all about advertising pushes and a popularity contest. It’s like being in high school and running for a student body office. It’s rare that someone shocks and wins a big award. You can basically see the win coming for the top 6 categories based on how far a movie studio pushes a favorite movie based on its advertising.
Marion Cotillard winning Best Lead Actress for La Vie En Rose was quite the shocker. She came out of nowhere almost (well, France) but still bagging the oscar for a French language film is still very unexpected. I do think that winning a series of big awards like Cesar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and and a bunch of big name film festival awards helped her all the way to the top. A magnificient actress btw
That just means you've probably never seen Benigni in other roles. He's COMPLETELY the same everywhere. Yeah, that walk on chairs at the Oscar ceremony epitomyzes that
I agree that any other movie above Green Book except Star is Born, so I disagree there. Star is Born was and is a painfully overrated movie. I just don't get it. I personally hated it. It was like a 10th remake of the original, we watched this story in different eras done over & over again, and this Bradley Cooper's version wasn't good at all despite what most amazing reviews said! The main song was very good, and Gaga was also very good in the role but far from great, she also played herself. The first half had a good flow, but again, it wasn't anything mind-blowing or Oscar-worthy, and the second half of the movie was boring as hell, with bad writing, and a bad ending that can be foreseen from miles away, and it was calculated for cheap emotions. So I'm still happy Green Book won over Star is Born, because the most overhyped movie that year was def Star is Born, not Green Book. Star is Born winning that year would be actually a 'popular win' because almost everyone seems to love this movie, yet it is overrated.
A very thought-provoking video. As difficult as it is to confine myself to just one, for "Best film," I'd say that "Around the world in 80 days" (1956) merits serious consideration. In 1956, I'm sure the travelog aspects of the film had audiences gasping (I stress again, 1956: foreign travel - much less exotic foreign travel - was much less common than it is today). And no doubt it was (and is) fun to pick out the stars appearing in cameos. But as "Best picture," it hasn't aged well. (For what it's worth, confining myself to the official nominees, I would have gone with "The king and I.") Thanks so much for posting this video!
I learned two things from you that left me with my jaw on the floor: 1) Network didn't win Best Picture (or really anything else, as I discovered) - I'm not up on film history, so I was surprised that Rocky beat it; and 2) Ian McKellen never won an Oscar. Those, along with Brokeback Mountain not winning Best Picture, which I did know but wasn't surprised by, are travesties.
that year was so good that any movie that ended up winning best picture was deserved, network should've won best director, though, if it wasn't gonna win best movie
Pacino was robbed of an Oscar for 'Serpico', but politics being what they were at that time, and the actual Serpico living in exile in Europe for revealing the depth of political and LEO corruption, there was no way the Academy was going to hand the Oscar to Pacino.
The 3 movies I think Pacino should have definitely won for godfather part 2, serpico and dog day afternoon these are the 3 performances no one else could do the man absolutely aces it in them movies acting on another level.
Pacino was on Maron's podcast a few weeks ago and he talked about when he was nominated for Best Supporting actor for the first Godfather and he didn't go to the ceremony. A lot of people criticized him because they thought he was being a snob and that he was upset that he wasn't nominated for lead. He said that reputation followed him around for a while. So, that could have contributed to not winning the next 2 years for Serpico and Godfather II.
Nah, art must be judged for its inherent quality, apart from its creator. It's possible to both dislike Polanski and to acknowledge Chinatown as a classic of cinema.
Does it really have to affect how we look at the film? I still laugh at Bill Cosby's stand up routines, in spite of what I know about him. I can differentiate between the creator and the creation.
The gold standard of female performances in cinema is Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream. I don't care how good Roberts was in Erin Brockovich. Sara Goldfarb is masterfully realised in Burstyn's grasp. That's my hill to die on. Utterly agree about Brokeback. Blame industry queasiness about queerness on screen for that one. X
I love Cher, and she was amazing in Moonstruck, but Glenn Close was truly deserving for Fatal Attraction. She should also have won for Dangerous Liaisons instead of Jodie Foster for The Accused. I would also have given Glenn the win for The World According to Garp instead of Jessica Lange’s performance in Tootsie. Sure, Jessica was charming and lovely in the film, but that felt like a substitute award for Frances. There’s no way she should have won the Oscar over Meryl Streep in Sophie’s Choice. I would also have awarded Vanessa Redgrave for Isadora-truly incredible and perfect. Speaking of the Redgraves, Lynn Redgrave should have won for Gods and Monsters. Judi Dench was decent in Shakespeare in Love, but there’s no way she deserved it more than Lynn. Fernanda Montenegro absolutely should have won for Central Station-that’s an undeniable fact. Everyone agrees on that, but if there’s another performance people wouldn’t mind seeing win, it would be Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth. Gwyneth Paltrow’s win was heavily influenced by Harvey Weinstein’s campaign, as was Judi Dench’s. This year, Fernanda Montenegro’s daughter, the amazing and incredible Fernanda Torres, delivered a tour de force performance in I’m Still Here. She truly deserves a nomination and might even win. I’m not sure if she’d beat Angelina Jolie’s performance in Maria, but I believe Torres has a really strong shot at taking home the Oscar. Loved your video, by the way-it was fantastic as always. I’m so sorry to hear about the passing of your pets. Sending you love and wishing you all the best. ❤
Jodie for The Accused was a respectable choice. The other 2 are ridiculous. Jessica Lange has always been just so-so IMO. Cher is an emoter, not an actor.
@@LolaLaRue-sq6jm Jodie was fine in the Accused but not better than Glenn Close was. She gave a very good performance, but her great scenes were mostly the r**e ones. The others she was just fine. Glenn was incredible and carried the film. I love Geena Davis, I would have given her the oscar for The Accidental Tourist any other year, but Michelle Pfeiffer was the better choice as well.
@@homermontana2392 never said she did. Some critics at the time said that she should have won for Frances. That's why she won for Tootsie. It was a substitute award! Glenn close gave a much better performance, but Lange got the oscars mostly because there's no way she would have triumphed over Meryl.
@vangroover1903 Tonto is the only reason I ended up seeing the movie. My mom saw the video for rent with him on the cover. He also happened to look like our cat at the time.
I remember thinking, during that scene from Crash in which a guy tries to shoot a kid, 'Am I supposed to cry or laugh?' because it was so heavy-handed and melodramatic.
Kate winslet for Titanic would have been something, just like Gleen Close for Fatal Atraction, iconic movies and roles that have aged very well but the academy just doesnt vote for the obvious one sometimes, they reward other things
The biggest shock was Leo NOT EVEN GETTING NOMINATED, that movie was great overall, aged really well and had great effects, all wins were deserving, but NOBODY cared for the boat. It was just a decoration. It's a love story, almost completely carried by two romantic leads with really good supporting cast. Actors made Titanic. Not the water effects.
Are you kidding? If the ship was as wooden as the acting the Titanic would never have sunk. The plot was clunky, emotionally manipulative and unbelievable. If you work out the timeline Winslet is supposed to be 16 years old. She didn't look or act 16 to me. And there's no way her character would have entertained Jack's advances.
When I was 10 years old in the 70s, I saw "Wait Until Dark". Audrey Hepburn was nominated on this film for Best Actress. Several years later I saw "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". Katharine Hepburn was also nominate for Best Actress on this film, competing with Audrey's "Wait Until Dark". To my surprise years later, I learned that Katharine Hepburn, beat Audrey Hepburn for Best Actress. I'm not a movie critic, but I know, and I can see that Audrey's performance is much, much better than Katharine's. It's at this time that I realized, award giving bodies like the Oscars are very subjective. Voters might vote for sentimental reasons, not for performance.
Going to disagree there. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a far better film, and it's the last Spencer-Tracy film. Audrey Plaza has done much better movies than "Wait Until Dark". If you'd said "Breakfast at Tiffany's," I might agree.
@@rickdesper You just said you disagree and then proved their point by saying Katherine Hepburn deserved to win because it was a good movie and it was Spencer Tracy's last? Do you see how neither of those things have anything to do with Katherine Hepburn? Also, "Spencer-Tracy" and "Audrey Plaza"??? Are you a bot?
@@rickdesper Guess who's Coming to Dinner might be the better film, but the better actress to win the Best Actress award? I think Audrey's role is more demanding, while Katharine seems like a supporting role for me.
@@scottbrown2252 Exactly, the award for best acting performance should be absolutely unrelated to how many movies the actress has done wit the male lead in the past, or that they will never make another movie together again. None of that is relevant. Even the absolute quality level of the movie as a whole should have little to do with how an individual acting performance is evaluated. There can be an Oscar worthy acting performance in an otherwise objectively bad movie.
In I think 2015 or somewhere around there, someone did a survey of academy voters for a redux of best picture in 2005. They admitted voting for Crash was a mistake and Brokeback Mountain should’ve won.
This is why the awards should be suspended for a few years, and when they resume, always be give a few years retroactively. Nobody truly know what the best move of the past year was until they have had a few years to reflect on it.
I love Driving Miss Daisy. I guess we all relate to movies that mean something in particular to us. I loved how Miss Daisy was gradually won over to Hoke, even though it took years. Those were different times. I loved to see the transformations. And I loved how Dan Akroyd and Morgan Freeman played their parts.
@@prilljazzatlanta5070I really like Spotlight. The Catholic Church needs to be called out, over and over again for their disgusting behavior. Hundreds if not thousands of dead young men because of that abomination of a church, including my brother in law.
So Martin Scorsese is the only person to lose best director to a directorial debut twice, and the only person to direct 3 movies nominated for 10 Oscar’s and won zero
It's really odd how young people today when Marty gets nominated see him as the old establishment, when in fact he only won once and probably should have at least 4. Raging Bull, Last Temptation, Gangs and Taxi Driver should have all been wins. He wasn't even nominated for taxi driver... He's probably the greatest living director, maybe the best of all time and the academy has given him very little love considering his body of work.
1974 Oscar win for best actor: Jack Lemmon for _Save the Tiger._ He beat Marlon Brando for _Last Tango in Paris,_ Al Pacino in _Serpico,_ Robert Redford in _The Sting,_ and, most outrageously, Steve McQueen wasn't even nominated for _Papillon_ apparently due to some Academy backroom politics.
Last Tango was shocking, but a stunning movie. Americans are so hung up about sex and related issues. You couldn't make that movie today, but it's not pornography! And Brando gave another amazing performance, as he was often capable of doing. It almost seemed like a movie David Lynch or Kubrick might have made, ala Eyes Wide Shut or Lolits.
Going to go a bit Old School, back to 1948, and Jane Wyman's win for playing a mute woman who is assaulted in Johnny Belinda. Wyman was a brilliant actress, with a wide repertoire, and the movie was controversial for its time...but that year saw Olivia de Havilland's turn in the Snake Pit. Which quite honestly was breathtakingly ahead of its time as a look at Mental Illness and the treatment of such, and still stands up today.
It's not even close to being the best film of that title. David Cronenberg helmed a film of that title in 1996 starring David Spader as a man who, after surviving a car crash, develops a sexual fetish involving car crashes.
Heh, Crash was pretty polarizing even at the time, and it doesn't seem to have a much warmer reception now. As part of my job then I had to read tons of movie reviews from pro and amateur critics, and Crash got lots of meh reviews, though some good ones too. But it beat 2 films that I never saw a bad review for - Brokeback Mountain and Good Night & Good Luck.
It would have won for the same reason it lost, because Hollywood votes for the movie that will make Hollywood feel good about itself. Quality has nothing to do with it; it’s all about mood affiliation.
"Brokeback Mountain" had won Best Picture in all the awards shows leading up to the Oscars. SAG gave the best ensemble award to "Crash" (only because it contained so many actors and actresses who were unemployed at the time). I also remember Tony Curtis and Ernest Borgnine trashing "Brokeback" before the Oscars heavily because they were truly homophobic.
@@lexkanyima2195 On what part? Ernest Borgnine was interviewed and basically spit on "Brokeback Mountain". he said "who wants to see that type of trash". Tony Curtis as well.
still very displeased that JOY LUCK CLUB did not get any nominations for anything of the Top Award Shows in the US. Even the British BAFTAS nominated it for Best Adapted Screenplay for Amy Tan.
I know every Godfather fan will disagree with me, but the best performance of 1974 was not Art Carney or Pacino. It was Albert Finney for Murder on the Orient Express. Talk about disappearing into the character and making the character a perfect fit for the movie.
Agree. Disagree. Yes, Pacino should’ve won for some earlier performances. Helen Hunt was far better in her own movie, “Then She Found Me.” But I loved Dances with Wolves and Ordinary People. I think Scorsese is a little overrated, same as Spielberg, whose films always seem a little too self-conscious and perfect. Definitely Brokeback Mountain; I’d never seen it, but my adult daughter insisted that I watch it. I was overwhelmed. Sorry, but I loved Shakespeare in Love, and I thought Paltrow glowed from the inside. Dench should’ve won for Mrs. Brown; she actually won for her two minutes in Shakespeare. You lost me with ROMA; I looked forward to it. It’s one of my most-hated movies. Barf. Oh, and Benini was tragic and poignant; I don’t understand the denigration. My two cents.
The worst robbery of the 1999 Best Leading Actor race was not nominating Jim Carrey for Truman Show!
I agree. I still think he should have won that year.
Or not nominating Jim Carrey for Man on the Moon.
Well not really, considering that Jim Carrey doesn't "act", he just plays himself in every role. Robin Williams did the same thing.
Gwyneth Paltrow win Best Actress by “Shakespeare in Love” over Cate Blanchett in “Elizabeth” or Fernanda Montenegro in “Central Station” never makes sense. Never.
I always thought that Cate Blanchett deserved that Oscar but Weinstein clearly paid for Gwyneth to get it instead.
Because Gwyneth was all over Weinstein.
That's what happens when they split the vote. The runner up gets the glory.
Montenegro was robbed. That was just so beautiful and affecting. Also to do with the Oscar's aversion to none English speaking roles and very narrow view of the world. Paltrow is just mediocre at best
@@MegaDiva1999 I wish she could even achieve the level of mediocre .
Spielberg was robbed so many times. I also find crazy that Angela Bassett lost to Holly Hunter in 1993. I mean Hunter is amazing in that role, but Bassett as Tina Turner is one of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen.
That's a tough choice. Both are very good in different ways.
I mean it was very disputed between the two, i prefer angela perfomance too, but holly hunter was astonishing too, it's not a robberry, now with spielberg i agree one hundred percent.
@@matheusalefe1644 to me the main difference is that Hunter did an amazing performance while Bassett delivered one of the greatest of all time and it’s still underrated, as the movie itself which I think is one of the best biopics ever made. Also the fact that Tina in the US wasn’t as huge as she was in the rest of the planet.
I lived in L.A and worked on the fringes of Hollywood for a number of years. Hollywood is high school and the Oscars are prom night. The popular kids win Prom King and Queen, and it doesn't really mean anything in the long run.
Excellent way to put it.
@@jgesselberty I concur.
It's all a pile of shite - the media bigging themselves up for being...the media.
@@jgesselberty Just sometimes if one looks back at previous big winners Hollywood gets real, sometimes!
A little secret in life - just about every work place is like high school too.
Who you first eat lunch with will mean a lot. Who you shoot the breeze with too.
And in the first couple days somebody will try and get the story on your dating status, etc. EVERYTHING you say about yourself and how you say it will affect your status above and beyond your job title/authority.
Exactly. The Oscars are industry trade awards, insiders honoring each other in what is essentially a popularity contest. The passage of time reveals if the choice was a good one, often a movie that went on to become a timeless classic lost to a film that is mostly forgotten. Best actor and best actress are completely arbitrary, in recent decades the intent has moved from honoring esteemed peers to making a political statement about the role. Tom Hanks is a fine actor, but his Oscar winning performance in "Philadelphia" was maudlin and over the top. Probably one of his worst, but it was about a gay man with AIDS fighting homophobia so it was tapped for the award. Gotta virtue signal.
Sandra Bullock’s Best Actress win has aged poorly given that The Blind Side is not a good movie, her performance is nothing special, literally everyone else in that category should’ve won over her and her performance in Gravity a few years later was 10x better
@@smurfyboy92 Not to mention all the drama surrounding Michael Oher and the Tuohy family regarding the nature of their conservatorship last year. It’s hard to even think about that movie knowing all that.
Also, Gravity was literally the next year! The much better performance
@@steveolivier5898 Gravity came 4 years later. 2009 and 2013.
Sandra Bullock in Gravity would not have won over Cate Blanchett. Her Blue Jasmine performance was one of the most honored in Oscar history.
She shouldn't have even been nominated for The Blind Side. VERY milktoast character and performance.
6:30 Similarly, I will always believe that Leonardo DiCaprio should have won his Oscar for "The Wolf of Wall Street" instead of for "The Revenant".
I was about to write exactly this!
The real star of The Revenant: the bear
Why though? I think his performance was better in the Revenant and it seemed a more challenging movie role for an actor than Wolf of Wall Street.
@@Charlotte8591 The Revenant was over hyped for the environmental conditions the actor was put in, especially about how he acted in a CGI bear attack scene and climbed into a carcass. I don’t find any of that impressive. The dialogue and everything else about that character and story was just kinda “blah” to me. There wasn’t much actual acting and emoting to do in that film. TWoWS comes across as the pinnacle of his career with how fully engaged he was in that character. The entire scene where the character is severely drugged up and driving/crashing the car and slowly struggling to crawl across the floor really nailed it for me.
@@SpiritHawk7 my opinion isn't based on the hype but on the movie itself and his performance in it. I thought that drug scene in Wolf of Wall Street was hilarious, not sure about oscar worthy. We have different opinions. It's fine.
Crash’s win did not age poorly. It was baffling and infuriating for everyone back then too.
I came to say this.
Oprah was pushing like crazy for that win.
Always liked the movie and do not understand the criticism in the slightest
@@djcruiselover3827 It's cheesy, watered down social commentary made by centrists
@@VuotoPneumaNN are you insinuating that Brokeback Mountain wasn’t cheesy as well just made by ultra-liberals?
Even Harrison Ford doesn’t seem too excited about announcing “Shakespeare in Love” as Best Picture 😂
Harrison ford isn’t excited about anything
@ hahahaha that is true 😂
Who would be? Besides he was up there presenting to what everyone thought would be his great friend and collaborator Spielberg.
Though, Harrison Ford doesn't really give a damn about most things. lol
Yeah, i thought he had the look you get when you're expecting something delicious, and it's rotten.
When I saw Gwyneth Paltrow was on your list, I couldn't recall which film she won for. My mind honestly stuttered and I thought "What did she win for?? Shallow Hal?"
😂
Paltrow had no business winning that award. It was a good performance in a good film, certainly not memorable or worthy of such an accolade. Fernanda Montenegro's performance as Dora is one of such gravitas and pathos, so moving and so human. That was an Oscar worthy performance. Blanchett in Elizabeth was another tour de force performance. This win, along with Crash besting Brokeback Mountain (and there many others) are the two that stick with me the most. Heath Ledger losing to Philip Seymour Hoffman (who was great, I'm not downplaying his performance) was also disappointing because Ledger was in a league of his own.
And again - a person that did not understand, how hard comedy is. Paltrow floats through this movie. This is great acting. Much greater than being pathetic.
Gwenny (the hilarious moniker Cynical Reviews gave her) didn’t deserve a trophy let alone a nomination. Kevin Kline winning for “A Fish Called Wanda” was a deserved win for comedy as he really is funny & the performance was memorable. Plus knowing what monster campaigned her win taints it even more
Harvey Weinstein won that award not Paltrow
George C. Scott was correct when he said give all five actors the same part and thereafter judge who did the best job. But five different actors playing five different parts and then slapping the label 'Best' on one of them is just stupid.
Even Blanchett's performance in EYES WIDE SHUT was better than anything Gwenyth ever did ~ aside from orchestrating the fall of Weinstein
Movies that did not win are: It's a Wonderful Life, Jaws, JFK, The Exorcist, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Taxi Driver, etc. All of them are phenomenally great movies. Oscar frequently gets it worong.
@speedystriper
They didn’t get it wrong with the saccharine and maudlin “It’s A Wonderful Life”. “The Lost Weekend” is far superior.
@@roberthill799 Those films are from two different years (1946 and 1945, respectively). "The Best Years of Our Lives" won for 1946 films.
JFK? Just say no to Oliver Stone's conspiracy theories.
I feel like Revenant is DiCaprio's 'Scent of a Woman'. The fact he didn't win for Departed or Blood Diamond is still crazy to me.
Forest Whitaker 100% deserved his Oscar for "The Last King of Scotland". DiCaprio just did his usual shtick while putting on a goofy accent
The Departed getting shafted was really disappointing, as was Gyllenhaal or Michael Peña in End of Watch
This.
For me it was "The Aviator" (there was no way he was losing to Jamie Foxx in "Ray" though) but I completely agree.
Bro, I love The Departed but Leo was the weakest part of that movie.
Maybe it's due to the natural setting, but Marky Mark, the poorer actor, walked all over him.
Dances with Wolves felt pretty groundbreaking at the time. I think its tone and style have been copied a lot since then so it doesn't feel that unique anymore, but at the time it was quite different from things we'd seen before. Same with Rocky. Hard to overstate how impactful Rocky was at that time.
I went through rehab with a Mohawk and he was enraptured by that movie. He was my best friend in rehab so I heard about it a lot …
100%, although to be fair he did say Rocky could keep the Best Picture gong. The original Rocky has been tarnished by it's ever diminishing quality of sequels and imitators but that first film is a genuine classic.
@@hertor8803The Rocky Sequels have not at all been ever diminishing in quality. 5 is the clear low point, 3 and 4 are silly, 2 and especially 6 are both amazing Sequels, and all three Creed movies are pretty excellent in their own ways, too. They're certainly not ever diminishing, and if anything, especially after the silliness of 3 and 4 and the low point of 5, they actually got better over time.
Rocky is a far better movie than Dances with Wolves. You can watch Rocky today and it's as fresh and impactful as it was in 1976. Dances with Wolves, on the other hand, while enjoyable is a corny politically correct fantasy with ham fisted messaging that seems embarrassing in retrospect.
@@thareelhelloagain In my mind, there is a trilogy for Rocky: Rocky (1976), Rocky II (1979), and Rocky Balboa (2006). The other movies I regard as standalone spinoffs, some of them are downright silly. if you disregard them the character arc in the 3 movies is brilliant and moving.
Agree with most, but Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful is one of the most beautiful, heart breaking, but inspiring movies I have ever seen. I’ve seen it numerous times and it brings me to tears every time.
Came here to say this. One of my all time favorite films.
Also enjoyed him in Pinocchio.
Yep, mentioning Benigni's Oscar on this list is way more of a miss than the Oscar itself.
100% agree.
Cate Blanchett should have won over Gwenyth Paltrow. But at the time, Blanchett was a Hollywood unknown. But it's no contest who ended up with the better career.
This is a bit disingenuous simply because we know what Gwenyth endured from Weinstein. He pushed SIL to sweep the Oscars in 99. Don’t know why Gwenyth gets so much hate for the win when it’s somewhat public knowledge what happened behind the scenes.
Fernanda Montenegro should have won, best performance that year and one of the finest all time.
@@omaxfaria Agreed!
Cate Blanchett was almost completly unknown by that time. Her nomination was the maximum she could reach for such a convervative Academy we had at that time and Paltrow was the closest we had to a Hollywood start in the nineties.
I am always surprised about this extended complaint.
Fernanda Montenegro should have won that year
Thank you for reminding me why I stopped paying attention to the Oscars. Weinstein destroyed any credibility this ceremony had prior. Not sure when it will recover...
It's also about the bad movies during the recent years.
It never had any credibility.
Awards for music, cinema, tv, stage and art are meaningless, its all subjective.
To think that Gwyneth Paltrow had sex with Harvey Weinstein as did Jennifer Lawrence.... to win their Oscars. ICK!
😂😂😂
I don't get why you say Weinstein destroyed any credibility for this ceremony... For me, they lose all credibility by themselves when they compromise artistic choice to promote DEI agenda, removing great talents to let poor diverse ones entering the contest.
Weinstein is a monster, but, from memory, he was in the business during 3 decades... Blaming him for "Oscar credibility fall" would mean you considerate it never really was credible during your lifetime, and i'm confident to say there was real good well deserved and impartial wins during the time he was active.
Seems like you use fallacious reasoning here, to make a parallel between things unrelated: Oscar credibility / Weinstein exposure.
It would be like saying Germany lost all credibility because of Hitler's doing, to make a really over the top comparison, but i guess you see the idea.
Couldn't agree more about Sidney Lumet never winning a competitive Oscar. What is that about? The thing that's the real head scratcher for me is that David Fincher's 'Zodiac' wasn't nominated for anything whatsoever. That film is absolutely incredible.
Agreed!
Sorry bro, but jamie lee curtis’s win will not age well at all :)
Who should have won in your opinion?
@@professionalspinner9292 Angela Bassett
@@professionalspinner9292EEAAO won a bunch of awards that don’t seem that deserving. Until you look at the alternatives. It wasn’t a great year for movies. The other supporting actresses may (or may not) have been a bit better. But nobody stood out so they gave a career award. Whatever.
Honestly I’m just glad she has an Oscar at all so I’ll always defend that win
@proudnerd9982 huh? A stupid statue is needed in order to verify a career? I think not.
Al Pacino got what I call an "Apology Oscar." It's not that the role wasn't good, but the Academy gave him an Oscar because it's been a while & he deserved it. Definitely did, but for a stronger role.
I feel the same way for Whoopi Goldberg's win for Ghost. That movie would NOT have been as successful without her & it was well deserved, but her performance in The Color Purple was better.
@@ShinbiBelldandy Who would’ve been your pick for Best Supporting Actress in place of Whoopi Goldberg
I used to think that Whoopi should have won for TCP, but if you watch A Trip to Bountiful, it all makes sense.
One of the reasons Whoopi won for Ghost was she had done another movie that year in which she had turned in a better performance The Long Walk Home which bombed at the box office. The Academy knew she very likely wouldn't win for that movie which was from a smaller studio & had very little publicity whereas Ghost made a ton of money & was a favorite with the general public
That has been a thing since Bette Davis in the 30s
@LoneRanger-et7gq Age of Innocence? You go too far!
Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, and Raging Bull? Yes. I'd rate The Departed at about the same level as Casino. Age of Innocence has a big Winona Ryder problem. She's great in contemporary roles but generally falls on her face in period pieces.
The Oscar’s aren’t rigged. They’re just terribly biased.
They're just a popularity contest. Any member of the Academy, from actors to make-up artists, can vote for any category even if they have no idea about it, so most of them tend to vote based on what they've personally seen (probably didn't even bother watching all the contenders) and then what they feel is popular opinion.
Good way to put it.
Emily Watson's portrayal of cellist Jacqueline Du Pré was heart-wrenching and breathtaking. She deserved that win over Paltrow. If you haven't seen the movie, go watch it. It's fantastic and the Du Pré family agreed
P showed her breasts. Emily learned that lesson and did the same a few years later.
Agreed
I love Fargo and McDormand, but Watson deserved to win in 1996
@@basils8255 I enjoyed Fargo but McDormand winning best actress for that was mindboggling. I thought it was crazy that she was even nominated.
Paltrow is a mediocre actress who should never have been nominated.
The Academy has become a joke, completely irrelevant
A woke joke
The Shawshank Redemption not winning any Oscars is proof The Oscars are a ginormous joke. That was the last Oscars I've ever watched.
Shawshank bombed at the box office..."The Academy" rewards box office winners...whether they're any good or not.
I thought Shawshank got the shaft. Yes, FG good feel good, historically accurate fun film. But the level of acting greatness is from start to finish in Shawshank.
Sleepers was based on a true story, adolescent rape by adults in an administrative system. It was 1994, people still not yet comfortable addressing the subject.
Shawshank also dealt with male forcing male into sex, like with ‘the sisters’. I’m counselor, those topics really challenged to address. Of course, now we do a much better job with these terrible truths.
Maybe Oscars ought to be a joint ballot decision 50% SAG, 50 % popular vote (1 vote each). I think it would certainly be more representative of truly impactful films & their crews
Apart from LGBT themes in Shawshank Redemption, that film doesn't leave any impact on viewers. Freeman and Robbins played flat roles with flat delivery.
@@droopy_eyes So what do you think is the reason it is #1 IMDB movie of all time? Not being a blockbuster when it first came out.
I recently saw Crash without knowing it won an academy award. I thought it was bad. I am baffled to learn it won.
Even its director was puzzled they won Best Picture. The Academy was even polled over a decade later and the members said that they would’ve actually chosen “Brokeback Mountain” instead compared to 2005; well way too late to reverse that, isn’t it
@@LucyLioness100 Yes when one Snoozes one Loses
has to do with lobbying by the behind the scenes execs. We are just peons that get spoon fed this garbage
@@andiman45 ok, then Julia Roberts win over Ellen Bursteyn was WRONG, huh?
Even Jack Nicholson seems to be amazed by that. 13:49 look how he turns to the side and mouths "wow" whilst shaking his head.
I come from Brazil, specifically from the Northeast, where Central Station was filmed (yeah, that semi-desert place that almost no one thinks it exist in a country supposed to be full of rainforests) and I am really glad that you mentioned Fernanda Montenegro. We brazilians hold a grudge towards Gwyneth. 😂
She is a NEPO baby that was connected to Harvey Weinstein. You all never had a chance
Get her back, PLEASE
Im from Brazil, cool that you remember Fernanda Montenegro about this oscar lose! Everybody here thinks the same!
I am from Hungary, her film was shown there in my childhood. Magnificent perfomance!
Who remembers Central Station? Be real 😂 other than brazilians that is. She was happy to be there
I'm from Brazil too and would give that Oscar for Cate Blanchett. But years later I would drop her Oscar for The aviator and give it to Natalie Portman.
@gabbyb7347 a few years ago Glenn Close remembered it saying she was shocked that Gwyneth won over Fernanda, so I guess it's remembered by some important people at least 😅
@@gabbyb7347 Glenn Close and Ian McKellen doesn't agree with you and their opinion is much more important.
The definition of not aging well has to be Kramer vs Kramer over Apocalypse Now for best picture in 1979. Kramer was a good movie, but was strictly entertainment without much longevity . Apocalypse is still discussed today, not only from the view of entertainment, but as a social commentary , it's artistic achievements, and philosophical qualities. It also had a successful and profound documentary on how it was made. Of course in 1979 they would not have known how renowned the film would be, even 45 years later.
It was a bit long and drags a bit at times. Kramer v Kramer was a worthy winner.
Apocalypse Now got somewhat mixed reviews when it was released. Mainly because many people thought it was too soon after the Vietnam war.
The award that sticks in my craw is "Shakespeare in Love" winning over "Saving Private Ryan". The greatest war movie ever made losing to a mid-level period piece? WTF.
exactly
Hollywood pretentiousness.
@@echt114Weinstein ought to have been Cancelled for his dirty bribery long before anyone even blew the whistle on the sex blackmail.
@@echt114 Hollywood STUUUUUpidity?
I love period films but Shakespear in Love was just meh for me. Private Ryan should have won and if not that, Elizabeth was a much better period film than SiL.
I think people obsessed about Paltrow the way they obsessed about Grace Kelly, who won best actress for her mediocre performance in The Country Girl, over Judy Garland in A Star us Born. Both were bright faces of the moment and anything they were in was automatically elevated perceptually, at the time.
I recently rewatched Grace in Dial M for Murder and thought how lucky she was to look as good as she did because there really wasn't much more going on except a lot of protracted and unnatural annunciation.
As for Paltrow, these days when I hear her referrenced, all it brings to mind is her vagina scented candles.... 😒
I don't agree with the choice of Dances with wolves being on this list. However, a win that hasn't aged well that should be here is Best Actress 2010 - Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side. Every other person in that category was better in my opinion and she was a distant Number 5.
He was never going to say Sandra because he's a huge fan of her!
I agree 100% with you on both statements. Dances With Wolves is a remarkable film. One of my all time favourites and I can't really find any real flaws in it apart from both main characters just happening to be white, I suppose. I mean that in itself is fine, but considering the cirumstances it's bizarre. Why not just let the female star be a native american?
I am too, but she shouldn’t have won for that.
@@dj71162 He's already talked about Sandra in his series rating the Best Actress wins of recent years. He knows the Blind Side is not close to her best work.
Goodfellas is a million times better.
In 2014, 40 mil people watched the oscars. In 2024, 19.5 mil. It is declining rapidly.
Not a win but Jennifer Lawrence getting a best lead actress nomination in joy. A forgettable movie and performance. Who still remembers joy?
This nomination should have gone to charlize theron for mad max
Yes, good point
I loved Joy, and I still remember it and watch it every now and then
In Mad Max??? It's a decent performance by a great actress but wtf are you talking about? That is nowhere near a prize-worthy performance.
@@HalfdanMCMX I don’t think you understand what a masterclass in subtlety and physicality that performance that was. It’s ranked 16 in the best female performances of all time on Cinema Archives.
Joy was not that bad! Maybe my favorite Jennifer Lawrence movie, honestly
Sir Ian McKellen! They did him wrong 😑
I read a story that all the other nominees planned to not even show up to the ceremony. They all went out and got hammered after Bengini won is also how the story goes
@@aisharedux781 and he was awesome in Lord of the rings. There definitely should have been an Oscar coming his way or at least a nomination. That anti- fantasy bias was a killer.
Peter O'Toole is another that was frequently nominated but never won.
Gods and Monsters is an incredible film! Don’t know if you’ve seen him in The Critic this year - he was excellent in that too.
@@Diamonddogusa Yep. Lawrence of Arabia is arguably the greatest acting performance in film history. Gregory Peck won that year for To Kill a Mockingbird which was a fine performance, but nothing compared to O'Toole.
You are missing Roman Polanski winning Best Director. All those actors and directors on video giving a man in hiding overseas, because of what he did. And then several Oscars later those same people wore a pin for Me Too. That was a bad night for Hollywood. Daniel Day Lewis also deserved the Oscar for Best Actor that year. Poor Halle Berry.
@ no studio should’ve given him the opportunity to make “The Pianist”. He should’ve been in jail. It aged even worse when Adrien Brody won Best Actor and French kissed Halle Berry without her permission. Daniel Day Lewis as Bill The Butcher is arguably his best role and on par with Daniel Plainview. Day Lewis won most acting association awards for Best Actor including BAFTA and SAG. Jack Nicholson won Best Actor in a Drama at the Golden Globes. The Oscars were the only major association and one of the very few globally Brody won for The Pianist. The Academy knew those 2 were bad awards. Many voters have come out and said their votes were wrong and the Academy has disabled comments on their RUclips page and edited the crowds reaction.
Gwyneth is charming and cute in Shakespeare in Love, she by no means should’ve won the Oscar, but it’s not a fraction as bad as Judi Dench’s Best Supporting Actress win. She shows up for 8 minutes in a big dress, isn’t even that good or memorable, and wins the Oscar? Even in the weaker 1999 lineup for Best Supporting Actress, there is no reason on earth she should’ve won.
I have to disagree, whilst I'm no fan of the win, I'd have gone with Brenda Blethyn, she is by no means bad, it's Judi Dench even at her best she is leagues ahead. In fact in the little time she is given, she gives a full Shakespearean performance full of breadth and majesty, it's just a shame it's a cameo, which for me is why she should not have won, but staying on theme and connecting it back, we all know why she got it, because the Academy realised that a year earlier they were wrong and she should've won for Mrs. Brown, awarding her for SS, so one bad decision had a knock on effect a year later.
My problem with Shakespeare in Love was that Joseph Fiennes didn't win! He is the one who carried the film, not Paltrow.
@@latebloomerabroadIndeed, he gave a wonderful performance and he wasn't nominated at all. What a shame!
But Judi is a phenomenal actor, something Paltrow is not. I can justify that win over Paltrow’s for that reason alone.
Judi Dench is unwatchable. She just always plays herself with that hard, grating voice. She’s in a few voice ads on radio and as soon as I hear her I switch the radio off.
I attended an Oscar party that was a fundraiser in San Francisco which “crash,“ won for best picture. The reaction in the room was shock. Then disappointment, then more shock and disbelief.
Like in the Democrats 'celebration' room this month.
@@68404 fu#$ the Dems and fu#$ Trump--This time if Trump messes up it will be those who voted for him to Be Blamed NINNYS! Inflation was lowered -- Biden was unpopular and Harris couldn't distinguish herself from him--We'll see!
The Brokeback Mountain snub really infuriates me. Crash is an Afterschool Special (ask your parents...) with a few 'f' words tossed in.
I stand with them
Imagine how people felt when American in Paris won for best film. Yes the dancing is tremendous, but overall a piece of crap.
Ian McKellen never winning an Oscar is bonkers
I am STILL angry over the fact that Saving Private Ryan did not win best picture. Denzel not winning for Malcolm X and Pacino not winning for The Godfather are also on my list of things that still make me angry, Oscar awards wise.
You and me both!
Al Pacino should have also won for Dog Day Afternoon. The fact that the man only has one Oscar is a disgrace.
@@itsjemmabond omg, you are so right. That performance, Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon is in my top 10 favorite acting performances of all time. It was absolutely superb. Good call!
@pommie5093 "Kiss me... I like to be kissed when I'm being f**ked!" The screenplay was great too.
Y'all are forgetting the SPR was basically a remake of "The Fighting Sullivans." It's well-directed, but everything in the script after minute 20 was pastiche.
The Oscars have no credibility. It's a popularity contest like Prom Queen in high school 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yes,that's why the overrated Chalamet will win the next year, is like they have an agenda
Thank you for bringing Fernanda Montenegro into your video. We were robbed. Thank you for recognizing her talent
We cant firget the cultural juggernaut Dances With Wolves was at the time. You couldnt escape it, and Costner was being treated as a modern prophet for Indigenous rights.
I enjoyed the film.
It's probably why it won. Everything is politics, and DWW came out at the right time to ride that particular wave. If Brokeback Mountain had come out a decade later it would have won too, because the cultural zeitgeist was there as it perhaps was not in 2005.
Followed up 5 years later with that other cultural juggernaut, _Waterworld_
I watch the movie to this day. The directing was ground breaking.
@@ShanghaiRooster Or perhaps Brokeback wouldnt have been so groundbreaking 10 years later because it's solid but not nearly as AMAZEBALLS as people like to claim. The fact that there was nothing else like it at the time is why it's so hyped. It's a solid movie with great performances, nothing more. I would say the overhype is more 'cultural wave' than DWW, by far.
What mystifies me about Crash is that it not only was way worse than Brokeback Mountain, but the category was stacked that years. Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, and Munich all deserved to win over Crash too.
While it may have been a vote against Brokeback to a degree, I think it was also a thinly veiled attempt to cater to the subject matter of Crash.
Yeah, I actually thought Good Night, and Good Luck should have won. I thought I was going to hate that movie, and I ended up loving it.
Brokeback was a masterpiece. Crash was OK but does anybody even remember it anymore?
@@celestialdemon1316 good Night and Good Luck was my favorite that year as well. But I also thought Brokeback Mountain was a masterpiece.
@@JDHutchison It was a little too slow for me, but everything else about it was fantastic.
Crash had all the race narratives, which always takes priority over any other woke agenda. An alphabet movie is always a strong contender, but not if it's an all-white cast competing against a racial movie with a lot of black and Latin actors.
Race > gender identity > sexual orientation > gender. That's the Oppression Hierarchy. The Oscars sticks to that like glue.
Crowe winning an Oscar for Gladiator and not a beautiful mind always baffled me.
Should've won back to back
The worst part about Helen Hunt’s Oscar win is Pam Grier not even being nominated for Jackie Brown and it’s EASILY a better performance.
Very odd take......
Strong agree.
She only won that Oscar as she was the only American in that category. I remember that part so well the press saying she was going to win it as the Oscars at that time only ever went to American. It changed after that win as they realised the controversy around that win
Pam Grier owned that movie. Surrounded by first rate actors and she OWNED it. I bought that on VHS lol & watched it over & over, for the nuances.
I agree that Hunt wasn't the best performance of the year but I don't think her winning is a top ten type travesty. She was memorable in a very good movie.
Bruno Ganz not even getting a nomination for Downfall in 2004, let alone not winning for best actor, was a disgrace.
On the plus side, we get to see his bunker speech over and over again, with new English subtitles, every time there's a major scandal or controversy in American politics.
Oh come on, Oscar for a Hitler role??
@@SuperCosty2010 Yes. Did you even see the movie? He was incredible in his role. But Hollywood would never let it happen. Just like Ralph Fiennes not winning a supporting Oscar for his portrayal of Amon Goth in Schindler's List.
@@majorsynthqed7374 of course I saw him, the performance is unbelievable. Nevertheless, the Hitler role
@@SuperCosty2010 Hopkins won in 1992 playing a serial killer who chewed people's faces off.
Dog Day Afternoon is my favorite performance of Al Pacino.
Real ones know the real best picture and actor of 1998 was The Truman Show.
Please say that louder for the voters in the back. To be fair, I don't know if Jim Carrey should have won, but he should have at least received a nomination.
OH 100%!!! I was in awe of that film and it’s still one of my most favorite films of all time!
I feel like The Truman Show is more impressed with itself than it should be. Nothing about it was ever revelatory to me. I kept waiting for the big twist or for some other shoe to drop...and it never happened. Not close to Carrey's best performance either.
No. Terrible film. See it once, never again.
Carrey is a drugged out looney at this point, but even I liked his work in 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'
@@MchannnelNo. The twist is the only good thing.
Your number 1 pick was spot on! Crash was even included in a list of Worst Movies that same year it came out.
Btw, you can hear the disappointment in Harrison Ford's voice as he announced Shakespeare in Love as the Best Picture winner. 🤭
The Oscars have been garbage for years. And they wonder why ratings continue to drop.
Ratings for everything has dropped, even football. Too many choices.
I had totally forgot about Crash. Best Picture? Ridiculous
I never heard of 'Greenbook'.
Even its director called the win into question & the Academy a decade later even said they would’ve chosen “Brokeback Mountain” instead
Heath Ledger was ROBBED. So was Ang Lee. That was the end for me.
I'm sorry but I don't get why A Star is Born was so well received. With the exception of Bradley Cooper's performance, which was fine(not amazing, but above average), and a few songs, everything about that movie was cheesy and cringeworthy.
The dialogue, the acting, the tone, everything was so forced and badly handled. It's like I watched a different movie than the critics. It was overnominated and didn't deserve Best Picture/Director/Actress/Screenplay/Supporting Actor nominations, let alone wins.
Exactly!
Sidney Lumet not winning for Dog Day Afternoon, Network, or The Verdict is tragic. The Veridct, with Newman's performance of Mamet's best screenplay, was masterfully directed and should have been the one.
A shout-out to someone else who acknowledges what a great film The Verdict is. Almost nobody I mention this movie to has ever heard of it, which is a crying shame.
@johnniea4684 yes! Barry Reed has always been overshadowed by John Grisham. David Mamet did a great job adapting Reed's book, and Lumet let Newman be Newman.
@@robertzuzek2678 I've not read the book; so you'd recommend it, I assume?
@johnniea4684 yes, it hits different. Also, A Civil Action, which also beats Grisham. I think Grisham's The Rainmaker is a blend of both of these books.
@robertzuzek2678 I see, thanks for the information. Looks like it's been out of print for a while, which is kind of sad.
I always thought Crash was a disappointing win
It's actually a terrible film...like very very very bad
Brokeback Mountain was robbed.
I enjoyed watching it at the time, but have never had the urge to rewatch it. Meanwhile, I have seen Brokeback Mountain several times and would watch it again.
"Crash isn't the worst best picture of all time." Uh, yes it is. "I mean, it's not bad." Uh, yes it is.
I don't blame people for being angry over "Brokeback Mountain" losing BP because of bigotry. But the Oscars are about a century old, and "Crash" is not a worse film than "Around The World In Eighty Days" which is nothing but three hours if cameo appearances of every star in Hollywood. The makers of this list and most of the comments aren't even considering films that were released before their lifetimes.
@@eddiejc1 He said that in the video.
15:00 i do not even remember Crash but i sure remember Brokeback mountain and i am sure you are right. It was not a vote FOR it was a vote AGAINST. What a shame
Brokeback changed peoples' LIVES. Crash was OK, I guess. No contest whatsoever.
I noticed how people tend to always suggest comedic performances weren’t deserved. People don’t respect comedic performances!
Great comedy is generally harder than great drama. There, I said it.
I agree with this and also have the unpopular opinion that Paltrow and SIL deserved the wins (terrible about Weinstein, who also harassed her) but that Joseph Fiennes should have been nominated and won too.
What really gets me is that sappy, hagiographic biopics are automatically considered to be "serious enough" while excellent comedies get snubbed. (Especially biopics about royalty in England and Hollywood.)
Most biopics are formulaic and revisionist and barely deserve our attention. The king has a stutter? So what? Millions of common folk are fighting a horrible war and this is where our attention should go? A speech impediment?
You are SO DAMN RIGHT!
I completely agree with you. Begnini gave the performance of his life in that film. Comedy and the Holocaust - you would not think that could be a pairing. However, the better film on that would have been "Train de Vie" (Train of life) of French (!) film director Radu Mihaileanu. Award-worthy.
How can "Green Book" be one of the greatest movies ever, when this is the first time I've ever heard of it?
Its a terrible movie to pleace old white people.
So, your knowledge is the measure for quality?
Not only that, but it's a drama directed and written by the guy behind films like "Dumb & Dumber", "The Heart Break Kid (remake)", "Movie 43", and "The Three Stooges (reboot)". He's known for dumb comedies.
This was the man's first attempt at a more serious drama and it's just a soulless Oscar Bait film that goes through all the motions.
It mimics everything highly acclaim films do without understanding why those talented directors made it that way.
"Crash" was a shrill, after-school special.
Julia Roberts' aged the worst IMO. Almost no one talks about that forgettable film or her performance in it. Unsurprisingly, it's been relegated to the dustbin and is now essentially being used as filler on the Lifetime Network. Meanwhile, Requiem for a Dream is still widely viewed and continues to impress, and people are still blown away by Ellen Burstyn's amazing performance. No one can say the same about Roberts.
As you said with Helen Hunt being a "popularity win," the same can be said for Julia. She was being rewarded for making the studios so much money not because she deserved it for that specific performance.
Requiem is a great movie, but it's so upsetting I likely won't watch it again. As for Erin Brockovich? I'm just not that interested.
You're right about Burstyn, wrong about Roberts.
@@rickdesper Requiem probably holds the record for the best never rewatched movie. It's just TOO hard, and I can rewatch movies about bigger tragedies, this one is just too personal (nobody in my family is an addict, I can't even imagine how people who relate to it feel).
As others say here, I've always referred to Requiem as the best film I've ever seen that I can't possibly watch again. I have it, I just can't watch it again. It's so absolutely brutal. I feel pretty much the same way about "Saving Private Ryan." I've never been able to forgive Spielberg for those first 20-30 minutes.
Just because you don’t speak the language and that makes you not get the full performance doesn’t mean Benini didn’t deserve that Oscar.
Oscar's have always been more of a neocon boys club than anything else. Actors and actresses have always been rewarded for playing the roles the academy believes they SHOULD be in. How many women did they wait until they got naked to give them the award?
Not a win but meryl streep shouldn't have been nominated for Florence Foster Jenkins
Rebecca Hall should have gotten that nomination for her heartbreaking performance in Christine
Or Amy Adams for Arrival.
Not even her. It should’ve been Amy Adams or Taraji P Henson.
IMO many of Meryl Streep's Oscar nominations are unwarranted (if that's the right word).
This same channel released a list of the top 10 underwhelming Oscar nominations (or something like that) and Streep's nomination for "Florence Foster Jenkins was on that list.
I love Rebecca Hall in Christine. It's a great and powerful film.
I hate the Oscars with a passion so I love it when they ignore great movies and award statues to the wrong people.
You nailed #1. CRASH isn’t even the best movie named CRASH.
Honourable mention to the tedious TV movie called SPOTLIGHT.
I think it’s called Spotlight, haven’t bothered to watch it again tbh.
GREAT list breaux
Someone upset a Catholic. Spotlight was amazing, sorry it exposed something you'd rather not be exposed.
@@Heathcoatman Lol, not a Catholic, but my, aren't you on a hair trigger? 20 years earlier it would have been something. try Amy Bergs DELIVER US FROM EVIL if you want to see how a pro takes them down.
Spotlight was formulaic Oscar bait trash tbh
@@Heathcoatman The movie was a bunch of famous actors acting outraged; Mark Ruffalo was particularly cringe in it. SA within the Catholic church being exposed has been done since the early 1990s in Ireland and elsewhere. We just didnt think to make some star studded showcase for actors wringing their hands over it.
Gigi, the 1958 Best Picture winner, is the very definition of a movie that doesn't hold up well. It won 9 Oscars that year. It could not be made today.
Off course it could be made today, it's a fictional story set at the turn of the 19th century, it's not a documentary or instructional film on how to think, what are you going to ban next, horror films because people shouldn't commit murder? Ban any movie that doesn't sanitise reality past and present? When are you going to start burning books?
Well, it's the 50s, 40s, and 60s. Different standards. People who made the decision back then probably started during the silent film era.
@@karlkarlos3545 And just what do you think not aging well means?
@@mdp26 There is aging, and there is not aging well. Sometimes it seems people don't understand the difference.
@@karlkarlos3545 Feel free to watch Gigi and tell me with a straight face that it isn't a perfect example for something not aging well.
10:16 The biggest Oscar robbery!
You hit the nail on the head when you said “popular.” I worked in the movie industry and the Oscars is all about advertising pushes and a popularity contest. It’s like being in high school and running for a student body office. It’s rare that someone shocks and wins a big award. You can basically see the win coming for the top 6 categories based on how far a movie studio pushes a favorite movie based on its advertising.
Marion Cotillard winning Best Lead Actress for La Vie En Rose was quite the shocker. She came out of nowhere almost (well, France) but still bagging the oscar for a French language film is still very unexpected. I do think that winning a series of big awards like Cesar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and and a bunch of big name film festival awards helped her all the way to the top. A magnificient actress btw
1) Crash over Brokeback Mountain
2) Judy Holliday over Bette Davis and Gloria Swanson
Judy Holliday was wonderful
Well, Will Smith didn't even let time to his win to age terribly, it was instantaneously a disaster 😂
Benigni's Oscar was well deserved. You look at him and you instantly remember Live is beautiful
I concur. That movie beat the hell out of everybody in the theater.
Life is Beautiful us one of those great movies you can never watch again for me. I'm honestly surprised it's apparently considered overrated now.
That just means you've probably never seen Benigni in other roles. He's COMPLETELY the same everywhere. Yeah, that walk on chairs at the Oscar ceremony epitomyzes that
@@SuperCosty2010 sounds like a great casting job
Kevin Costner and Dances With Wolves beating out Martin Scorcese and Goodfellas is criminal.
Not, it was at the right time
@ davidlochary9399
Agreed. Probably the biggest farce in Oscars history.
I agree that any other movie above Green Book except Star is Born, so I disagree there. Star is Born was and is a painfully overrated movie. I just don't get it. I personally hated it. It was like a 10th remake of the original, we watched this story in different eras done over & over again, and this Bradley Cooper's version wasn't good at all despite what most amazing reviews said! The main song was very good, and Gaga was also very good in the role but far from great, she also played herself. The first half had a good flow, but again, it wasn't anything mind-blowing or Oscar-worthy, and the second half of the movie was boring as hell, with bad writing, and a bad ending that can be foreseen from miles away, and it was calculated for cheap emotions. So I'm still happy Green Book won over Star is Born, because the most overhyped movie that year was def Star is Born, not Green Book. Star is Born winning that year would be actually a 'popular win' because almost everyone seems to love this movie, yet it is overrated.
Agree 100%. It had some good scenes but that's about it.
A very thought-provoking video. As difficult as it is to confine myself to just one, for "Best film," I'd say that "Around the world in 80 days" (1956) merits serious consideration. In 1956, I'm sure the travelog aspects of the film had audiences gasping (I stress again, 1956: foreign travel - much less exotic foreign travel - was much less common than it is today). And no doubt it was (and is) fun to pick out the stars appearing in cameos. But as "Best picture," it hasn't aged well. (For what it's worth, confining myself to the official nominees, I would have gone with "The king and I.") Thanks so much for posting this video!
I learned two things from you that left me with my jaw on the floor: 1) Network didn't win Best Picture (or really anything else, as I discovered) - I'm not up on film history, so I was surprised that Rocky beat it; and 2) Ian McKellen never won an Oscar. Those, along with Brokeback Mountain not winning Best Picture, which I did know but wasn't surprised by, are travesties.
that year was so good that any movie that ended up winning best picture was deserved, network should've won best director, though, if it wasn't gonna win best movie
Network won three of the four acting awards (and could have easily won the fourth as well).
I love how Gwyneth always tops lists like this. She deserves to be the most "undeserving" win. Congratulations!!
Pacino was robbed of an Oscar for 'Serpico', but politics being what they were at that time, and the actual Serpico living in exile in Europe for revealing the depth of political and LEO corruption, there was no way the Academy was going to hand the Oscar to Pacino.
Treat Williams in 'Prince of the City' was amazing. Similar theme, great film.
The 3 movies I think Pacino should have definitely won for godfather part 2, serpico and dog day afternoon these are the 3 performances no one else could do the man absolutely aces it in them movies acting on another level.
Pacino was on Maron's podcast a few weeks ago and he talked about when he was nominated for Best Supporting actor for the first Godfather and he didn't go to the ceremony. A lot of people criticized him because they thought he was being a snob and that he was upset that he wasn't nominated for lead. He said that reputation followed him around for a while. So, that could have contributed to not winning the next 2 years for Serpico and Godfather II.
You forgot to mention that Crash's director, Paul Haggis, is also now disgraced, which surely has to affect how we look at the film.
What happened?
@@itsjemmabond There were rumours of sexual abuse; he was found liable in civil court and required to pay $10 million to a victim.
@dj71162 Blimey. Thanks.
Nah, art must be judged for its inherent quality, apart from its creator. It's possible to both dislike Polanski and to acknowledge Chinatown as a classic of cinema.
Does it really have to affect how we look at the film? I still laugh at Bill Cosby's stand up routines, in spite of what I know about him. I can differentiate between the creator and the creation.
The gold standard of female performances in cinema is Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream. I don't care how good Roberts was in Erin Brockovich. Sara Goldfarb is masterfully realised in Burstyn's grasp. That's my hill to die on. Utterly agree about Brokeback. Blame industry queasiness about queerness on screen for that one. X
I love Cher, and she was amazing in Moonstruck, but Glenn Close was truly deserving for Fatal Attraction. She should also have won for Dangerous Liaisons instead of Jodie Foster for The Accused. I would also have given Glenn the win for The World According to Garp instead of Jessica Lange’s performance in Tootsie. Sure, Jessica was charming and lovely in the film, but that felt like a substitute award for Frances. There’s no way she should have won the Oscar over Meryl Streep in Sophie’s Choice.
I would also have awarded Vanessa Redgrave for Isadora-truly incredible and perfect. Speaking of the Redgraves, Lynn Redgrave should have won for Gods and Monsters. Judi Dench was decent in Shakespeare in Love, but there’s no way she deserved it more than Lynn.
Fernanda Montenegro absolutely should have won for Central Station-that’s an undeniable fact. Everyone agrees on that, but if there’s another performance people wouldn’t mind seeing win, it would be Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth. Gwyneth Paltrow’s win was heavily influenced by Harvey Weinstein’s campaign, as was Judi Dench’s.
This year, Fernanda Montenegro’s daughter, the amazing and incredible Fernanda Torres, delivered a tour de force performance in I’m Still Here. She truly deserves a nomination and might even win. I’m not sure if she’d beat Angelina Jolie’s performance in Maria, but I believe Torres has a really strong shot at taking home the Oscar.
Loved your video, by the way-it was fantastic as always. I’m so sorry to hear about the passing of your pets. Sending you love and wishing you all the best. ❤
Jodie for The Accused was a respectable choice. The other 2 are ridiculous. Jessica Lange has always been just so-so IMO. Cher is an emoter, not an actor.
@@LolaLaRue-sq6jm Jodie was fine in the Accused but not better than Glenn Close was. She gave a very good performance, but her great scenes were mostly the r**e ones. The others she was just fine. Glenn was incredible and carried the film. I love Geena Davis, I would have given her the oscar for The Accidental Tourist any other year, but Michelle Pfeiffer was the better choice as well.
nobody won over Meryl Streep in Sophie’s Choice she got the oscar
@@homermontana2392 never said she did. Some critics at the time said that she should have won for Frances. That's why she won for Tootsie. It was a substitute award!
Glenn close gave a much better performance, but Lange got the oscars mostly because there's no way she would have triumphed over Meryl.
@@victorrodrigueesoficial oh okay
I wouldn't mind the Art Carney win if the cat that played Tonto won along with him.
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Tonto's performance as Tonto is the most overlooked in Academy history.
It's strange, because the Academy is famously catty
@vangroover1903 Tonto is the only reason I ended up seeing the movie. My mom saw the video for rent with him on the cover. He also happened to look like our cat at the time.
Best P•••y?
Green Book aged poorly a minute later!
I remember thinking, during that scene from Crash in which a guy tries to shoot a kid, 'Am I supposed to cry or laugh?' because it was so heavy-handed and melodramatic.
Kate winslet for Titanic would have been something, just like Gleen Close for Fatal Atraction, iconic movies and roles that have aged very well but the academy just doesnt vote for the obvious one sometimes, they reward other things
Yep. I love Cher, but her performance in Mask was 100x better than the one in Moonstruck. Glenn Close was robbed.
@@itsjemmabond Glenn Close has been robbed several times.
The biggest shock was Leo NOT EVEN GETTING NOMINATED, that movie was great overall, aged really well and had great effects, all wins were deserving, but NOBODY cared for the boat. It was just a decoration. It's a love story, almost completely carried by two romantic leads with really good supporting cast. Actors made Titanic. Not the water effects.
Are you kidding? If the ship was as wooden as the acting the Titanic would never have sunk. The plot was clunky, emotionally manipulative and unbelievable. If you work out the timeline Winslet is supposed to be 16 years old. She didn't look or act 16 to me. And there's no way her character would have entertained Jack's advances.
I’m not mad at the best director win for Rocky. It’s an all time classic!!!
When I was 10 years old in the 70s, I saw "Wait Until Dark". Audrey Hepburn was nominated on this film for Best Actress. Several years later I saw "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". Katharine Hepburn was also nominate for Best Actress on this film, competing with Audrey's "Wait Until Dark". To my surprise years later, I learned that Katharine Hepburn, beat Audrey Hepburn for Best Actress. I'm not a movie critic, but I know, and I can see that Audrey's performance is much, much better than Katharine's. It's at this time that I realized, award giving bodies like the Oscars are very subjective. Voters might vote for sentimental reasons, not for performance.
In any Hepburn on Hepburn action, the loser is bound to be a Hepburn
Going to disagree there. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a far better film, and it's the last Spencer-Tracy film. Audrey Plaza has done much better movies than "Wait Until Dark". If you'd said "Breakfast at Tiffany's," I might agree.
@@rickdesper You just said you disagree and then proved their point by saying Katherine Hepburn deserved to win because it was a good movie and it was Spencer Tracy's last? Do you see how neither of those things have anything to do with Katherine Hepburn? Also, "Spencer-Tracy" and "Audrey Plaza"??? Are you a bot?
@@rickdesper Guess who's Coming to Dinner might be the better film, but the better actress to win the Best Actress award? I think Audrey's role is more demanding, while Katharine seems like a supporting role for me.
@@scottbrown2252 Exactly, the award for best acting performance should be absolutely unrelated to how many movies the actress has done wit the male lead in the past, or that they will never make another movie together again. None of that is relevant. Even the absolute quality level of the movie as a whole should have little to do with how an individual acting performance is evaluated. There can be an Oscar worthy acting performance in an otherwise objectively bad movie.
In I think 2015 or somewhere around there, someone did a survey of academy voters for a redux of best picture in 2005. They admitted voting for Crash was a mistake and Brokeback Mountain should’ve won.
If only those revotes could’ve been legit. I wouldn’t mind Brokeback Mountain and Saving Private Ryan permanently replacing the actual winners.
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lol. No
This is why the awards should be suspended for a few years, and when they resume, always be give a few years retroactively. Nobody truly know what the best move of the past year was until they have had a few years to reflect on it.
I love Driving Miss Daisy. I guess we all relate to movies that mean something in particular to us. I loved how Miss Daisy was gradually won over to Hoke, even though it took years. Those were different times. I loved to see the transformations. And I loved how Dan Akroyd and Morgan Freeman played their parts.
Nearly 3 years after CODA won Best Picture and ALREADY people forget it exists.
And Spotlight
And The Shape of Water
@@prilljazzatlanta5070 _Spotlight_ is not forgotten.
@@prilljazzatlanta5070I really like Spotlight.
The Catholic Church needs to be called out, over and over again for their disgusting behavior. Hundreds if not thousands of dead young men because of that abomination of a church, including my brother in law.
And The King's Speech.
So Martin Scorsese is the only person to lose best director to a directorial debut twice, and the only person to direct 3 movies nominated for 10 Oscar’s and won zero
It's really odd how young people today when Marty gets nominated see him as the old establishment, when in fact he only won once and probably should have at least 4. Raging Bull, Last Temptation, Gangs and Taxi Driver should have all been wins. He wasn't even nominated for taxi driver... He's probably the greatest living director, maybe the best of all time and the academy has given him very little love considering his body of work.
Scorsese should won 3
Harrison Ford’s reaction to Shakespeare in love is 😂
1974 Oscar win for best actor: Jack Lemmon for _Save the Tiger._ He beat Marlon Brando for _Last Tango in Paris,_ Al Pacino in _Serpico,_ Robert Redford in _The Sting,_ and, most outrageously, Steve McQueen wasn't even nominated for _Papillon_ apparently due to some Academy backroom politics.
*That* Marlon Brando performance was disgusting
Last Tango was shocking, but a stunning movie. Americans are so hung up about sex and related issues. You couldn't make that movie today, but it's not pornography! And Brando gave another amazing performance, as he was often capable of doing. It almost seemed like a movie David Lynch or Kubrick might have made, ala Eyes Wide Shut or Lolits.
Look up wjst the actress said about it.
Going to go a bit Old School, back to 1948, and Jane Wyman's win for playing a mute woman who is assaulted in Johnny Belinda. Wyman was a brilliant actress, with a wide repertoire, and the movie was controversial for its time...but that year saw Olivia de Havilland's turn in the Snake Pit. Which quite honestly was breathtakingly ahead of its time as a look at Mental Illness and the treatment of such, and still stands up today.
Wow! Amazing! Very insightful. And you are a good voice talent. Well done and thanks!
"number 1: crash" me: wtf is crash? 😅
It's not even close to being the best film of that title. David Cronenberg helmed a film of that title in 1996 starring David Spader as a man who, after surviving a car crash, develops a sexual fetish involving car crashes.
What it WASNT was that "gay cowboy" movie. I've never watched the Oscars since.
Those are my thoughts exactly! Well, not precisely, but close enough. My thoughts were more like, “Oh, yeah. That movie exists.”
Heh, Crash was pretty polarizing even at the time, and it doesn't seem to have a much warmer reception now. As part of my job then I had to read tons of movie reviews from pro and amateur critics, and Crash got lots of meh reviews, though some good ones too. But it beat 2 films that I never saw a bad review for - Brokeback Mountain and Good Night & Good Luck.
Racial drama. Has won over gay cowboys' drama. The "gay cowboy" has become a running gag since
I’m sorry, Helen Hunt! We love you but that win was dumb.
Frankly, I think Helen Hut is over-rated in general. She has managed to sustain a long and varied career, however, so I could be wrong.
@ she was sooooo good in The Sessions. She won me over again with that performance.
I agree. She was too young for the part of a middle aged woman.
Green Book only won because of identity politics. The Academy is still recovering from the backlash of the OscarsSoWhite controversy
Blame Brokeback Mountain’s loss on homophobia. There is no way it wouldn’t have won a decade later.
How ? Would it be a riot
It would have won for the same reason it lost, because Hollywood votes for the movie that will make Hollywood feel good about itself. Quality has nothing to do with it; it’s all about mood affiliation.
"Brokeback Mountain" had won Best Picture in all the awards shows leading up to the Oscars. SAG gave the best ensemble award to "Crash" (only because it contained so many actors and actresses who were unemployed at the time). I also remember Tony Curtis and Ernest Borgnine trashing "Brokeback" before the Oscars heavily because they were truly homophobic.
@jimmydaves what ?
@@lexkanyima2195 On what part? Ernest Borgnine was interviewed and basically spit on "Brokeback Mountain". he said "who wants to see that type of trash". Tony Curtis as well.
still very displeased that JOY LUCK CLUB did not get any nominations for anything of the Top Award Shows in the US. Even the British BAFTAS nominated it for Best Adapted Screenplay for Amy Tan.
Couldn’t agree more.
One of my most memorable movies
I don't even watch the Oscars or any awards show. It's all so contrived.
I know every Godfather fan will disagree with me, but the best performance of 1974 was not Art Carney or Pacino. It was Albert Finney for Murder on the Orient Express. Talk about disappearing into the character and making the character a perfect fit for the movie.
Agree. Disagree. Yes, Pacino should’ve won for some earlier performances. Helen Hunt was far better in her own movie, “Then She Found Me.” But I loved Dances with Wolves and Ordinary People. I think Scorsese is a little overrated, same as Spielberg, whose films always seem a little too self-conscious and perfect. Definitely Brokeback Mountain; I’d never seen it, but my adult daughter insisted that I watch it. I was overwhelmed. Sorry, but I loved Shakespeare in Love, and I thought Paltrow glowed from the inside. Dench should’ve won for Mrs. Brown; she actually won for her two minutes in Shakespeare. You lost me with ROMA; I looked forward to it. It’s one of my most-hated movies. Barf. Oh, and Benini was tragic and poignant; I don’t understand the denigration. My two cents.