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  • @bucksdiaryfan
    @bucksdiaryfan Год назад +108

    I couldn't agree more about Denzel Washington in Malcolm X. That was a tour de force, one of the great biographical performances in the history of cinema. Not only did he portray Malcolm X beautifully, he skillfully made his way through Malcolm X's own dramatic post-prison change of character.

    • @jaylouis8227
      @jaylouis8227 Год назад +6

      Yes. Denzel absolutely deserved to win for Malcolm X. Unfortunately, Al Pacino had been robbed of Oscars for so long that they decided that was the year to finally make up for it.

    • @emmalancaster2013
      @emmalancaster2013 Год назад +4

      Agree. Al’s was a body of work award.

    • @matthewdigiacomo2580
      @matthewdigiacomo2580 Год назад +2

      Frankly, any of the other four I thought were better. Downey Jr. in Chaplin was fantastic, Eastwood brought back the western with his performance in Unforgiven, Denzel is Denzel ... and perhaps the most underappreciated nominee was Stephen Rea in The Crying Game, which was outstanding. I think I'd still go with Denzel, but the other three certainly could have made a much better argument than Pacino.

    • @leopimenta4395
      @leopimenta4395 Год назад

      *10 times? In Oscar history? This vídeo is SO naive!*

    • @maryk3458
      @maryk3458 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@jaylouis8227 and nobody remembers training day

  • @spiderguy418
    @spiderguy418 Год назад +104

    Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream losing to Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich is the first example that comes to my mind with this criteria…

    • @dr.juerdotitsgo5119
      @dr.juerdotitsgo5119 Год назад +12

      That one hurt. One of the most amazing performances ever lost to Pretty Woman 2.0

    • @goji9000
      @goji9000 Год назад +8

      This. This is the one. This is the example I give each time I have a discussion with anybody about how out of touch the Academy is. Thank you for commenting this.

    • @Lauren-fj9cf
      @Lauren-fj9cf Год назад +3

      Problem was Jared Leto was the main role in that film but Ellen Burstyn refused to be nominated for supporting actress, if she allowed for that, which was more accurate, she would’ve won - but her performance was so much better than Julia Roberts, even though I think she’s great

    • @erinpilla
      @erinpilla Год назад +1

      I actually agree now that Julia deserved to win. I used to be WHY JULIA?! But I re-evaluated Erin Brokovich after re-watching it three times. I realized the fact I watched it three times means Julia gave this film what it needed. If another actress did Erin it would have been an HBO filler. Her performance empowers me to this day.

    • @HelloHello-tm7uc
      @HelloHello-tm7uc Год назад

      @@dr.juerdotitsgo5119 have you ever seen EB? what part of that is PW 2.0?

  • @badateverything5392
    @badateverything5392 Год назад +3

    Tom Hanks is incredible in "Philidelphia", but Liam Neilson in "Schindler's List" is absolutely mesmerising. Neilson takes you, believably, from a cold-hearted Nazi businessman to a charitable business owner, to a philanthropist in a way that you cry with him when he sobs by his car at the end of the film.

  • @jonhecht1749
    @jonhecht1749 Год назад +48

    Can't really argue THAT much against Sam Jackson winning for Pulp Fiction, but just gonna say that Martin Landau is SO GOOD in Ed Wood, itself an insanely underrated film (and Burton's best).

    • @rosswatson9144
      @rosswatson9144 Год назад +3

      At the time I really had the sense he won for his entire body of work..remember most of those voters grew up on Landau in everything from hitchcocks north by northwest to the tv series mission impossible

    • @marklulham3148
      @marklulham3148 Год назад

      He was really great a few years earlier in Crimes and Misdemeanours but he lost out there.

    • @lpjewkes
      @lpjewkes Год назад

      I concur

  • @leviathanmg
    @leviathanmg Год назад +191

    "Crash" over "Brokeback Mountain" should've been an extinction-level event for the Academy Awards.

    • @JDHutchison
      @JDHutchison Год назад +23

      Especially since Crash wasn’t just not the best, but arguably the worst nominee that year. Brokeback Mountain should have won by far, by Capote, Goodnight and Good Luck, and Munich were all better films.

    • @leviathanmg
      @leviathanmg Год назад +14

      @Veronica A. I remember it being the "gay cowboy movie." A close college friend had recently come out to a few us and he really wanted to go see it. We had to drive across town just to find a theater showing it, it was still in limited release. I can't recall my expectations going in but by the end of the film I was deeply moved, especially by Ledger's performance. Everyone mentions the Joker but for me his greatest performance is that of Ennis Del Mar

    • @tedwolf1716
      @tedwolf1716 Год назад +4

      Still will side with Ebert on this that Crash is a far superior movie to BBM.

    • @car9melo
      @car9melo Год назад

      Brokeback is overrated as fuck 😂😂

    • @inwalters
      @inwalters Год назад +6

      'Brokeback Mountain" was just more politically correct. If you're looking for the better film, "Crash" is it. Period. End of discussion.

  • @davids9520
    @davids9520 Год назад +18

    I've come to the conclusion that getting nominated for an Oscar multiple times and not winning the award, is probably better than winning an Oscar that some one else was more worthy of winning. People respect Hitchcock, who never won a best director Oscar, over some other director who only got nominated once, but in just the right year, to win an Oscar.

  • @Robertbuccellatobooks
    @Robertbuccellatobooks Год назад +32

    I gotta disagree with you on one point
    Lemmon deserved the award in 1973
    Pacino’s best actor Oscar was the nomination he lost for The Godfather Part II in 1974 against Art Carney’s absurd win!

    • @leviathanmg
      @leviathanmg Год назад +4

      Yes. That, to me, is the quintessential Pacino performance. Michael reigning in Hell by himself at the end of "Part II" is my favorite closing shot of any film.

    • @suarezguy
      @suarezguy 2 месяца назад

      Pacino was excellent yes deserved to win but Carney was really good, at least a bit also deserving.

  • @camhaugstad4726
    @camhaugstad4726 Год назад +17

    John Wayne got snubbed in 1956 for his role in The Searchers which was a much more dramatic and gripping performance than the role he did win for in True Grit.

    • @benjamincox4211
      @benjamincox4211 8 месяцев назад +1

      He also tried to punch Sacheen Littlefeather in the face at the 1973 Oscar’s so I’m alright with the Oscar’s not going his way

    • @joonaa2751
      @joonaa2751 5 месяцев назад

      That year had like 25 pictures that were superior to AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS

  • @Boatdrink
    @Boatdrink Год назад +91

    Great list. Saving Private Ryan losing out to Shakespeare in Love has always ground my gears.

    • @jamesalexander5623
      @jamesalexander5623 Год назад

      That's why Harvey Weinstein is in Prison!

    • @pattiharvey1787
      @pattiharvey1787 Год назад

      Agree 💯

    • @lonestar6709
      @lonestar6709 Год назад +3

      Even Ryan shouldn't have won.
      The Truman Show was easily the best American movie, that year.

    • @girornsveinsson7970
      @girornsveinsson7970 Год назад +1

      I agree 100% That was the first thing coming to my mind when I saw the title.

    • @mixboy79
      @mixboy79 Год назад

      Agreed, I was like WTF when I watched that show live.

  • @acesovernines
    @acesovernines 10 месяцев назад +2

    I agree with you wholeheartedly on Newman vs Kinsley, Stone vs. Huppert and all the other instances you have cited in the video

    • @suarezguy
      @suarezguy 17 дней назад

      Really don't get love for Paul Newman in The Verdict, he was good but I think not great.

  • @bryanalstoncoxing
    @bryanalstoncoxing Год назад +60

    What about Whoopi Goldberg for “The Color Purple”, Glenn Close for “Fatal Attraction” or Angela Bassett for “What’s Love Got To Do With It”? All were incredible in their performances

    • @tenzen6899
      @tenzen6899 Год назад +8

      Glenn Close is the most robbed actress in History of Cinema she should have won 3 Oscars by now.
      For Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons and Hillbilly Elegy, but I do believe Olivia Colman in The Favourite deserved her win over Glenn Close in The Wife

    • @patighe
      @patighe Год назад +6

      @@tenzen6899 I would add best supporting actress for "The World According to Garp." She was brilliant in that. To think that she may have to settle for a lifetime acheivement award breaks my heart.

    • @danielshinkle6686
      @danielshinkle6686 Год назад +11

      The fact that The Color Purple didn't walk away with all prizes was a crime

    • @LuvTadnDixie
      @LuvTadnDixie Год назад +6

      Cher's performance in Moonstruck was NOT Oscar worthy. She was good in Mask, but Moonstruck was not worthy of an Oscar. Holly Hunter or Glenn Close were far better.

    • @katherinemartin394
      @katherinemartin394 Год назад +4

      Definitely agree about Angela Basset. Saw “Love…recently and she is flawless.

  • @patighe
    @patighe Год назад +22

    You missed Ellen Burstyn, who got robbed for Requiem for a Dream, to Julia Roberts in Erin Brokovitch. In addition, even Gwyneth Paltrow thought Cate Blanchett should have won for Elizabeth over Gwyneth in Shakespeare in Love.

  • @fool4singing
    @fool4singing Год назад +22

    I've always felt Glenn Close was robbed when she didn't get an Oscar for "Fatal Attraction." That performance is still talked about, and as good as Cher's performance was in "Moonstruck," it's wasn't as riveting as Glenn was in her performance. The Academy was overcompensating for snubbing Cher a couple years before for 1985's "Mask" like they've done many times over the years with other performers.

    • @AserHapi
      @AserHapi Год назад

      Years later Cher was robbed for Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, so it all evens out

    • @fool4singing
      @fool4singing Год назад +2

      @@AserHapi Uhhh,..I'll leave that one alone.

    • @graphiquejack
      @graphiquejack Год назад +2

      Close also should have won for Dangerous Liaisons. Holy shit she was brilliant in that

    • @cliffarroyo9554
      @cliffarroyo9554 Год назад

      @@graphiquejack I think of DL as Close's best performance (so far). She walks right up to the edge of haminess but never goes over and is still mesmerizing.

  • @mateusivsc
    @mateusivsc Год назад +19

    gwyneth paltrow winning against cate blanchett and fernanda montenegro in 1999 was really shocking too

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 Год назад

      Always remember what George C Scott said about the Oscars.

    • @CALLMESIR...
      @CALLMESIR... 2 месяца назад

      Weinstein payed for all those Oscar's he "won" that year. SIL was a piece of crap. It was cute with enjoyable performances. That's it. Blanchett should have won that Oscar. The comparison to Paltrow is rediculous.

    • @jacquelinewesson1202
      @jacquelinewesson1202 2 месяца назад

      absolutely, cate blanchett was brilliant, while gweneth Paltrow was mediocre

  • @ValmontRequin
    @ValmontRequin Год назад +23

    Glenn Close losing every time she was nominated still haunts me every year.

    • @tlpricescope7772
      @tlpricescope7772 Год назад +4

      The most robbed actor in Academy Award history, and she should have won for “Fatal Attraction” over the ridiculous Cher performance in that stupid overrated “Moonstruck.”

    • @davidanderson_surrey_bc
      @davidanderson_surrey_bc Год назад +3

      Yep. Every time she was Close... but no cigar.

    • @sharonalbanese8084
      @sharonalbanese8084 10 месяцев назад

      It is insane that she still hasn't one a single oscar. Neither has Annette Bening or Amy Adams.

  • @jimanderson5883
    @jimanderson5883 Год назад +3

    Glenn Close was pillaged for "Fatal Attraction." Not that I don't think Cher was great in "Moonstruck," but 36 years later, people still remember and are frightened by Close's portrayal of the mentally-unbalanced Alex Forrest, whereas "Moonstruck" is barely remembered.

  • @amdkhl
    @amdkhl Год назад +71

    100% agree about Isabelle Hupert. Not only is she one of the greatest living actors (of both genders) her performance in that film was genius. My other choice would be Gweneth Paltrow winning over Cate Blanchett in 1998.

    • @bbcbbc1717
      @bbcbbc1717 Год назад +5

      Agreed, still have not got over that one!

    • @petertrezise4545
      @petertrezise4545 Год назад +3

      Cate Blanchett was robbed. I also agree with you about Isabelle Huppert. I first saw her in “The Lacemaker” she is so haunting in that film.

    • @xpindy
      @xpindy Год назад

      @@petertrezise4545 Robbed again this year.

    • @colleen4ever
      @colleen4ever Год назад +9

      And this year Cate Blanchett was robbed again! No disrespect to Michelle Yeoh but she should have won for Tar.

    • @emmalancaster2013
      @emmalancaster2013 Год назад +3

      Blanchett & Huppert were indeed robbed. Huppert’s performance in “The Piano Teacher” remains one of my favorite performances by any actor, ever. Just an incredible talent.

  • @BroadwayGuy
    @BroadwayGuy Год назад +14

    Grace Kelly winning instead of Judy Garland is one of MANY reasons I hate the Academy Awards.

    • @xpindy
      @xpindy Год назад +2

      Interesting that Grace Kelly uglified is better looking than Judy Garland prettified.

  • @shiwooify
    @shiwooify Год назад +16

    Cher over Glenn Close for "Fatal Attraction" killed me.

  • @Supadupasebas
    @Supadupasebas Год назад +151

    I wonder how many video essays Jamie Lee Curtis is going to inspire for her best supporting actress win.

    • @victorioushamza
      @victorioushamza Год назад +4

      why?

    • @tbrown5836
      @tbrown5836 Год назад +2

      yaa... no

    • @damienburke4996
      @damienburke4996 Год назад +34

      JLC delivered an Oscar worthy performance…but it wasn’t as good as Stephanie Hsu’s

    • @herosmerlose5784
      @herosmerlose5784 Год назад +16

      @@damienburke4996 agreed. I don’t know if, down the road, anyone will begrudge JLC winning. Right now, there’s some talk about if she deserved it over Angela Bassett. In the future, I think the talk will be if she deserved it over Stephanie Hsu.

    • @linedwell
      @linedwell Год назад +21

      She was on screen for maybe 20 minutes total, she barely did anything of note, she wasn't even the best nominee in that movie.. Stephanie Hsu deserved it far far far more

  • @harshkamdar6120
    @harshkamdar6120 Год назад +19

    The Social Network is consistently on top of every best movies of the 21st century list. It's a shame it didn't win the Oscar.

    • @bartsullivan4866
      @bartsullivan4866 Год назад +1

      Only seen it once and I found it riveting and I am not even on any social network platforms.

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 Год назад

      Most people hate Facebook, even if they can't do without it, that's why it lost.

    • @MrJeepsters
      @MrJeepsters Год назад

      Ce film était très bien, peut être le meilleur de David Fincher.

  • @Adiz9809
    @Adiz9809 Год назад +153

    Awesome list. Would like to add 1979's Best Original Song - the mediocre and very forgettable "It Goes Like It Goes" (from "Norma Rae") won the award, but the real winner should have been the beloved and everlasting classic which is The Muppet Movie's "Rainbow Connection".

    • @andu1854
      @andu1854 Год назад

      Nice one

    • @thewkovacs316
      @thewkovacs316 Год назад +6

      it's 1980....and that was the year that kramer vs kramer swept the awards
      a forgettable abc after school special
      one of the most bizarre years in academy history

    • @jefdukes641
      @jefdukes641 Год назад +1

      Absolutely!!! My favorite version is Willie Nelson's.

    • @tommyo.3535
      @tommyo.3535 Год назад +5

      This comment inspired me to check and see if "Suicide is Painless" was nominated for Best Original song. Unsurprisingly it was not...

    • @emmalancaster2013
      @emmalancaster2013 Год назад +3

      Yes, and “Gonna Fly Now” should have knocked out the competition to win Best Original Song. The prize instead went to Barbra Streisand and Paul Williams’ pleasant, but hardly memorable “Evergreen” from the dreadful remake of “A Star is Born.” (Sample dialogue: “If you die, I will kill you!”) And somehow, the forgettable score from “The Omen” triumphed over “Rocky” for best original score. Insipid. EVERYONE knows “Gonna Fly Now” and many pieces from the “Rocky” score (“Down for the Count” is completely captivating) - is there ANYONE who can hum a piece from “The Omen”?

  • @helengraves7850
    @helengraves7850 Год назад +16

    Taxi Driver should have won over Rocky in 1977. I like Rocky; it's a lot of fun to watch, and the other nominees were worthy as well. But Taxi Driver is freaking amazing, a movie for the ages. (And side note: Peter Boyle's performance is a small gem.)

    • @hmcnally
      @hmcnally Год назад

      1977... so many great movies for grown-ups...

  • @toddbradford4700
    @toddbradford4700 Год назад +3

    Saving Private Ryan losing to Shakespeare In Love was unforgivable. I really haven't given a crap about the Oscars since. Shakespeare In Love is a light weight silly fluff of a comedy with virtually no re-watch value that no one remembers. On the other hand Saving Private Ryan is an immortal classic war film that people will still be watching when my bones have crumbled to dust.

  • @patighe
    @patighe Год назад +9

    Oh, and Eddie Redmayne in the Therory of Everything over Benedict Cumberbatch in The Imitation Game? That was a travesty.

    • @pipo801
      @pipo801 Год назад

      Both were very good in their movies, difficult choice

  • @edwardjones4870
    @edwardjones4870 Год назад +9

    My nomination for an Oscar error is Lee Marvin winning as the drunken gunslinger in “Cat Ballou” over Rod Steiger in “The Pawnbroker.” Supposedly no one was more surprised that he lost than Steiger himself. He won the following year for “In the Heat of the Night” which in my opinion was a consolation prize for having lost the previous year.

  • @spencerkindra8822
    @spencerkindra8822 Год назад +141

    To me, number one is Goodfellas losing to Dances With Wolves and a very very close second is Saving Private Ryan losing to Shakespeare In Love. I honestly find myself flip flopping on those two because they're both such travesties but Goodfellas is the superior film by a hair.

    • @zanehaus
      @zanehaus Год назад +1

      100% agree!

    • @thewkovacs316
      @thewkovacs316 Год назад +1

      number one will always be the big wins by kramer vs kramer in 1980.....nothing tops that

    • @chrismacdonald2251
      @chrismacdonald2251 Год назад +3

      DWW is my favorite film of all time.

    • @spencerkindra8822
      @spencerkindra8822 Год назад +1

      @@thewkovacs316 What do you mean? Like that Apocalypse Now should've won instead?

    • @craigjohnson6423
      @craigjohnson6423 Год назад +6

      You're right, except for the fact that Saving Private Ryan goes from great to merely passable about 25 minutes in, while Shakespeare in Love is great from start to finish. Other than that, you're right.

  • @ht6743
    @ht6743 Год назад +28

    Crash winning over Brokeback Mountain is a major omission.

    • @huangec
      @huangec Год назад

      Crash was so predictable and in-your-face. I found it formulaic and superficial.

    • @angiea9620
      @angiea9620 Год назад +1

      Jack Nicholson announcing Crash as the winner then going “wow” says everything about that win.

    • @Marceaystreet
      @Marceaystreet Год назад

      Crash is an amazing movie. Way better than Brokeback Mountain.

    • @suarezguy
      @suarezguy Год назад

      I think Munich was a lot better than either.

  • @NV2-Kauiki
    @NV2-Kauiki Год назад +23

    Kudos for the inclusion of Sissy. Her performance is legendary and still haunts even younger audiences today with the dawn of RUclips movie reactions.

  • @RichardDicksondlyrch68
    @RichardDicksondlyrch68 Год назад +114

    Oscar has a looooong history of "You should have won for this so we'll reward you for this." There are consolation prizes all over the place.
    Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan is the gold standard. A triumph of campaigning over artistry. As for some others:
    -- John Williams' score for The Empire Strikes Back losing to Fame
    -- Munich losing to Crash
    -- George Miller losing Best Director to Alejandro Iñárritu

    • @doktarr
      @doktarr Год назад +21

      Anything losing to Crash. I honestly think there were dozens of more deserving movies that year.

    • @gmr911
      @gmr911 Год назад +7

      The Revenant for Leo

    • @muffinman2167
      @muffinman2167 Год назад

      Glorified pity award

    • @cinemagoose
      @cinemagoose Год назад

      The Departed for Scorcese

    • @gmr911
      @gmr911 Год назад +1

      @@cinemagoose He should have won for prior work, but the Department is still damn good

  • @SWATTECHNOLOGIES
    @SWATTECHNOLOGIES Год назад +3

    So much agree about Pacino in GlenGarry, in my top five movies. And Lemmon's sad desperate portrayal of a has-been sales guy trying to save his daughter and win the sales lottery one last time is heartbreaking and probably the single best cast ensemble in a modern movie; Pacino, Lemmon, Spacey, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Alec Baldwin, Bruce Altman and poor Jonathan Price. If he only had those 3 days to get out of the contract!.

  • @drell3813
    @drell3813 Год назад +13

    There's lots of historic ones but the horror genre continuing to be snubbed recently has been a huge blow. Mia Goth deserved at least a nomination this year for Pearl and we all remember the dismay over Toni Collette's Hereditary snub.

    • @seblepage
      @seblepage Год назад +2

      Both incredible performances by leading ladies in recent horror movies! I would also add Lupita Nyong’o in Us, but at least she got the recognition for 12 Years a Slave. Toni Collette is a criminally underrated and overlooked actress, and Mia Goth should be getting so much more attention than she is. In any other movie genre, she would be seen as the breakout young talent everyone’s talking about.

  • @GjpgrD
    @GjpgrD Год назад +39

    I still haven't gotten over Al Pacino's greatest, bravest, most heartbreaking performance in Dog Day Afternoon losing to Jack Nicholson basically playing Jack Nicholson in Cuckoo's Nest. And The Verdict was hands down Paul Newman's best role among many. But Goodfellas & its director losing to anyone or anything is unforgivable! And how about Ralph Fiennes' terrifying turn in Schindler's List losing to Tommy Lee Jones' career award for The Fugitive? Aaarrrggghhh!!!

    • @thereserystedt3883
      @thereserystedt3883 Год назад +7

      I started to watch The 68th or the 69th Oscars Acadamy Awards. I never realised Ralph was nominated the same year as Tommy Lee Jones. All I could think of was Leonardo was robbed for his role in "Whats eating Gilberg Grape". But of course Ralph should have won that year. That was one of his most memorable and strongest character in so many ways.
      I will never understand why Tommy was even nominated for The Fugitive?? It wasn´t anything special about his performance. Miles and miles far away from both Leonardo and Ralph.

    • @emmalancaster2013
      @emmalancaster2013 Год назад +5

      Jack Nicholson has three roles: crazy fun Jack, crazy mean Jack and crazy old Jack. Not a great actor.

    • @emmalancaster2013
      @emmalancaster2013 Год назад +2

      @@thereserystedt3883 body of work type award

    • @raindrops21_9
      @raindrops21_9 Год назад +2

      I so agree with you re Pacino and Dog Day Afternoon - he's sublime, the best performance of his incredible career. Also agree on Fiennes as Amon Göth over TLJ's bland performance in The Fugitive - what an injustice!

    • @pattiharvey1787
      @pattiharvey1787 Год назад +4

      Agree 💯 about Tommy Lee Jones and Ralph fiennes. Fiennes should've got the Oscar not that god awful Tommy Lee Jones!👍

  • @dwaneanderson8039
    @dwaneanderson8039 Год назад +3

    When I think of the Oscars getting it wrong, one example always comes to my mind. In 1978, "Annie Hall" won "picture of the year" over... "Star Wars"! Need I say more?

    • @suarezguy
      @suarezguy Год назад

      They were both great, they both deserved to win. They were both so great that's almost an argument against such different films competing.

  • @MrCarlosandres94
    @MrCarlosandres94 Год назад +22

    There is no mishap. Samuel L. Jackson is Gold in PF and there is NO movie without him nor a more quotable character. That said, Martin Landau was more an amazing performance on top of a career oscar. He was Bela Legosi.

    • @jefdukes641
      @jefdukes641 Год назад +7

      Samuel L. Jackson plays Samuel L. Jackson in every movie he's in.

    • @leviathanmg
      @leviathanmg Год назад +2

      Yeah, some years it's tough. There are winners who benefit from weaker competition and then nominees who lose out only because the field is stacked that year with instant-classic performances. I felt bed for Mickey Rourke losing out to Sean Penn who already had an Oscar but admittedly I had only seen "The Wrestler" when the awards aired. I watched "Milk" and it's my opinion that Penn deserved the award more for that than he did for "Mystic River."

    • @MrHootiedean
      @MrHootiedean Год назад +6

      @@jefdukes641 The one performance where I thought SLJ didn't play himself and should have won the Oscar but wasn't even nominated was Django Unchained. But Waltz got the win for basically a lead role.

    • @jefdukes641
      @jefdukes641 Год назад +1

      @@MrHootiedean I stand corrected - you're right. I also apologize to Mr. Jackson - as he indeed got 'lost' in this role! But just this one time! LOL

    • @Laura-fw1jo
      @Laura-fw1jo Год назад +2

      Lugosi . And yes , Landau deserved it.

  • @andrewwilton5017
    @andrewwilton5017 Год назад +26

    faye dunaway deserved her oscar for network.

    • @thewkovacs316
      @thewkovacs316 Год назад +3

      i agree with this....she is brilliant

    • @bbcbbc1717
      @bbcbbc1717 Год назад +5

      Agreed, her performance was epic along with Finch made that movie.

    • @seanlarajames708
      @seanlarajames708 Год назад +2

      She shouldve won for Chinatown or Bonnie and Clyde. It was a pity Oscar.

    • @andrewwilton5017
      @andrewwilton5017 Год назад +6

      @@seanlarajames708 no, those were incredibly competitive years and her best performance is actually network i feel, shame for sissy but it was a good year

    • @bryanalstoncoxing
      @bryanalstoncoxing Год назад

      @@seanlarajames708 She was excellent in all 3 roles though. I loved her performance in Network and is the only actress of that era I could see bringing the right level of intensity and dark humor to the demanding role

  • @stewiegiligan
    @stewiegiligan Год назад +4

    Edward Norton (Primal Fear) losing to Cuba Gooding Jr ( Jerry Maguire). Mickey Roorke (The Wrestler) losing to Sean Penn for (Milk). Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind) losing to Denzel Washington (Training Day). Ralph Fiennes (Schindler's List) losing to Tommy Lee Jones (The fugitive).

    • @suarezguy
      @suarezguy Год назад

      Sometimes two performances are both really good but so different it feels weird and hard to compare them, like Fiennes vs. Jones the roles were so different but I think they were both worthy, about equally worthy.

  • @CoolHandLuke7
    @CoolHandLuke7 Год назад +38

    I guess Art Carney over Pacino was too obvious to mention

    • @ElBrillante4
      @ElBrillante4 Год назад +4

      Yeah wtf

    • @andu1854
      @andu1854 Год назад +5

      Was that the cat movie where he travels with a cat? Yeah this whole lifetime achievement award is so lame

    • @joseesquer8739
      @joseesquer8739 Год назад +2

      He even mentions most of Pacino's but somehow missed that.

    • @gregwalker1913
      @gregwalker1913 Год назад +2

      And not just Pacino but also Nicholson for Chinatown. Gene Hackman wasn't even nominated for The Conversation that year. Sheesh!

    • @lls3676
      @lls3676 Год назад +1

      Just like Crash over Brokeback Mountain or Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan.

  • @paulbates2626
    @paulbates2626 Год назад +6

    This has been brought up on various forums and lists. 1998 best picture winner “Shakespeare In Love” over “Saving Private Ryan” was giant mistake. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t agree that that was strange decision.

    • @suarezguy
      @suarezguy Год назад

      I think Life is Beautiful was a lot better than either.

  • @davidbrady1825
    @davidbrady1825 Год назад +13

    Cate Blanchett not winning an Oscar for TAR is up there with Glenn Close not winning for Dangerous Liaisons.

    • @peteradaniel
      @peteradaniel Год назад

      Wrong. Tár is definitely overrated

    • @davidbrady1825
      @davidbrady1825 Год назад +2

      @@peteradaniel The Academy sadly chose Narrative>Merit

    • @randomguy6695
      @randomguy6695 Год назад +2

      See, I would have to disagree with you on that one. Despite what you may think, Michelle Yeoh was very much deserving of the award. She played essentially very different characters, and expressed a lot of emotion and quite a bit of acting range all at once. (See what I did there?) I did watch Tar and I’ll be honest, all I saw was Cate Blanchett being Cate Blanchett except for about three scenes towards the end of the movie.

    • @tbrown5836
      @tbrown5836 Год назад

      @@davidbrady1825 you think michelle yeoh wasn't great in EEAAO

    • @craigjohnson6423
      @craigjohnson6423 Год назад

      Blanchett played the same role but better in an episode of Documentary Now! And she was funnier there, too.

  • @okay5045
    @okay5045 Год назад +11

    Goodfellas deserves an Oscar right now

  • @johnmillholland6550
    @johnmillholland6550 Год назад +19

    To make matters worse Emma Stone also won Best Picture that year😊

    • @patighe
      @patighe Год назад +2

      🤣

    • @jonathanfox1543
      @jonathanfox1543 Год назад

      Emma Stone won Best Picture? I’ve never heard of that movie.

  • @alel3544
    @alel3544 Год назад +7

    The most robbed artist was Ennio Morricone with "The Mission" score.

    • @melanie62954
      @melanie62954 Год назад +1

      How the heck did he not win?

    • @alel3544
      @alel3544 Год назад +1

      @@melanie62954 Yeah, how the heck.

  • @CashelOConnolly
    @CashelOConnolly Год назад +2

    David Lynch is so above the Oscar’s that he wouldn’t piss on one of their statues if his life depended on it!

  • @LuvTadnDixie
    @LuvTadnDixie Год назад +3

    Grace Kelly winning the Oscar for Country Girl over Judy Garland's performance in A Star is Born was a big upset.

    • @cliffarroyo9554
      @cliffarroyo9554 Год назад

      Kelly was also in Rear Window (an all time great movie) and Dial M for murder (also great) in the same year. So that probably pushed her past Garland should have won in 44 for Meet me in St Louis.

  • @blanco655
    @blanco655 Год назад +2

    Titanic winning best picture over LA Confidential and even Boogie Nights is preposterous.

  • @jothishprabu8
    @jothishprabu8 Год назад +13

    I think we can all unanimously agree that nobody cares about Shakespeare in Love

    • @michaeladkins6
      @michaeladkins6 Год назад

      Judi Dench got her Oscar for 10 minutes of screen time.

    • @chrisweidner4768
      @chrisweidner4768 Год назад

      Indeed. Well said. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @kelleyceccato7025
      @kelleyceccato7025 Год назад

      @@michaeladkins6 Consolation prize for Oscar's big mistake the year before.

  • @rykimoto
    @rykimoto Год назад +7

    Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan, Crash over any other movie, Forrest Gump over Shawshank Redemption, etc.

    • @jjstraka1982
      @jjstraka1982 Год назад +4

      Forrest Gump over Shawshank is not a travesty. Shawshank wasn't even seen by most people til years afterwards. Forrest Gump was a cultural phenomenon akin to Titanic. Nothing was going to beat it.

  • @michaelbarnhart2593
    @michaelbarnhart2593 Год назад +14

    "Shakespeare In Love" winning over "Saving Private Ryan" for best picture was an insane mistake... thanks to the strong-arm tactics of Harvey Weinstein.

  • @jp3813
    @jp3813 Год назад +5

    Tommy Lee Jones gets a lot of flak for winning Best Supporting Actor in the 66th Academy Awards for his role as Samuel Gerard in "The Fugitive". The other nominees were:
    Ralph Fiennes as Amon Göth in "Schindler's List"
    John Malkovich as Mitch Leary in "In the Line of Fire"
    Leonardo DiCaprio as Arnie Grape in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape"
    Pete Postlethwaite as Giuseppe Conlon in "In the Name of the Father"
    The snubs include Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday in "Tombstone", Ben Kingsley as Itzhak Stern in "Schindler's List", Sean Penn as David Kleinfeld in "Carlito's Way", certain actors in "True Romance", etc...

    • @wlmbarker1
      @wlmbarker1 Год назад

      All great performances. Some others were Jeff Daniels in “Gettysburg,” Robert DeNiro in “This Boy’s Life,” Jack Lemmon in “Short Cuts,” Chazz Palminteri in “A Bronx Tale,” Larenz Tate in “Menace 2 Society.”

    • @howardtowner9468
      @howardtowner9468 Год назад

      That's a heck of a good list. Fiennes should have won that every time. I think it was his character that lost it for him there

    • @jp3813
      @jp3813 Год назад

      @@howardtowner9468 Funny thing is that comments under a "Tombstone" video always claim that Val Kilmer deserved the Oscar that year. But when the nominees are listed out, all of a sudden people aren't so sure anymore. Research has been made so easy by the internet yet most users still don't bother.

  • @silverscreamers2305
    @silverscreamers2305 Год назад +12

    The upset I always go back to is Ellen Burstyn losing to Julia Roberts in 2001.
    Julia was great that year, but Ellen deserved it.

    • @patighe
      @patighe Год назад

      Ellen was at the top of her form. One of the greatest performances in the history of cinema. Julia was fine, but her win was due mainly to Oscar's unfortunate tendency to award portrayals of real people, no matter how much better the competition was.
      .

    • @erinpilla
      @erinpilla Год назад +1

      Looking back, I think Julia deserved to win it. I will be honest, I used to be on the Ellen train. I watched Erin again, and I realized, Julia's performance was empowering. It was a feel-good performance that was ahead of its time. If she won for that now, social media would have gone crazy celebrating it

    • @patighe
      @patighe Год назад +1

      It may have been a feel good performance, but it was not ahead of its time. It was typical of most biopics of the era. Ellen's performance was visceral, heartbraking and one of a kind.

    • @erinpilla
      @erinpilla Год назад

      @@patighe I understand. The Academy has never been one to award who is the best. They award who is the best for the time

  • @mournwood
    @mournwood Год назад +1

    It's like the Oscars (and the Grammys) are playing this never ending game of catch up. Each year sees an award go to someone they owed an award from 2 years ago, when they gave that years award to someone they had owed an award from 3 years before because they gave THAT award to someone they owed an award from the previous year...and so on.

  • @nikksann
    @nikksann Год назад +14

    You forgot Shakespeare in love over Saving private Ryan in '99

  • @justinstoll4955
    @justinstoll4955 Год назад +29

    Goodfellas might be the worst loss. And that someone is quoting this movie right now, that would be me.

    • @andu1854
      @andu1854 Год назад

      Agreed, I did like Dances, but I have rewatched Goodfellas numerous times and I don’t get sick of it, and have watched videos about it as well

    • @xpindy
      @xpindy Год назад +1

      That's where I got off the Oscar train for good- never watched the ceremony again.

  • @Shimmy-xg9xu
    @Shimmy-xg9xu Год назад +11

    To me, the most egregious one is Sean Penn winning for the exceptionally forgettable Mystic River over Bill Murray's haunting performance in Lost in Translation.

    • @matthewkirkhart2401
      @matthewkirkhart2401 Год назад +3

      Unless it was an Oscar for overacting ... if that is the case than yes, Penn should have one. But if it is for acting, no way should he have won, I agree. I dare people to go back and watch Penn's performance in Mystic River now. I actually like Penn as an actor, but every time I watch it all I can think of is, "who is this, it isn't Sean Penn!" It's just so over the top and, for lack of a better word, "unnecessary" for the movie.

    • @Shimmy-xg9xu
      @Shimmy-xg9xu Год назад +1

      @@matthewkirkhart2401 I couldn't agree more!!! Every word, perfect!

    • @Victor-cr5rr
      @Victor-cr5rr Год назад

      I disagree

    • @KPate-y5z
      @KPate-y5z 8 месяцев назад

      I could not agree more. Murray was superlative in that film while Penn for me was underwhelming and took histrionics to overacted extreme.

  • @Jim21500
    @Jim21500 Год назад +27

    It’s been talked to death but brokeback mountain really should’ve won over crash

    • @TheLauren800
      @TheLauren800 Год назад +3

      I was really expecting to that to be on the list! to me that one of biggest upsets ever!! still annoyed me. next is the social network loss. such a good movie

    • @nofx87
      @nofx87 Год назад

      Gotta be the biggest snub ever in my book. I can't remember the cast time I heard anyone mention the movie Crash.

    • @celestialdemon1316
      @celestialdemon1316 Год назад +1

      I liked Brokeback Mountain, but my favorite that year was Good Night and Good Luck. Both should have easily won over Crash.

    • @suarezguy
      @suarezguy Год назад

      I think Munich was better than either.

  • @billfisher9238
    @billfisher9238 Год назад +5

    i know you don't want to go back that far, but Cliff Robertson's CHARLY over Peter O'Toole's Henry ll in LION IN WINTER is probably the biggest goof i know of.

  • @garryd7748
    @garryd7748 Год назад +18

    It’s so unfair to criticise Ben Kingsley for ‘playing brownface’. Yes, he was born in Britain, but he’s undeniably of Indian ethnicity. Is anyone calling Angela Bassett out for playing blackface in Wakanda Forever because she wasn’t born in Africa? Or Charlize Theron for playing whiteface because she WAS born in Africa? It’s just a stupid argument.

    • @Unsweetened8618
      @Unsweetened8618 Год назад

      Your right on Angela Bassett👩🏾,. She's not Black👩🏿, but uh Maronné, Griffe. Black Women are Viola Davis And Angella Summer's👩🏿👩🏿. The Word Black, Means Racially, Dark Skin Pigmentation.

    • @Unsweetened8618
      @Unsweetened8618 Год назад

      So yes Angela Bassett👩🏾 is doing Blackface. By cosplaying as a Black Woman👩🏿.

    • @hata3128
      @hata3128 Год назад +2

      My friend, you oughta look a bit into South Africa. Caucasians are just there within the country and society. And Afrikaans is the language they create themselves for themselves, not the native tribes.

    • @tarasubramaniam6191
      @tarasubramaniam6191 Год назад

      @@hata3128 slumdogs ( millionaires) from LONDON.. No old nen with wriggles missing teeth from India to play Gandhi..
      There was Mickey Rooney as ian irate Japanese tenant in Breakfast at TIFFANY

    • @garryd7748
      @garryd7748 Год назад

      Yes, you’ve both perfectly illustrated my argument. It’s ridiculous to call Angela Bassett out for ‘blackface’ or Charlize Theron for ‘whiteface’. Ethnicity matters, not country of birth. Ben Kingsley is Indian. He’s not doing ‘brownface’ just because he was born in England.

  • @cdallapiccola
    @cdallapiccola Год назад +8

    Robert De Niro, The Deer Hunter. A performance for the ages. Jon Voigt won, for Coming Home, that year.

    • @QuirkyGirl10
      @QuirkyGirl10 Год назад +1

      @Carlo Dallapiccola I believe it was in the book, ‘Oscar Dearest,’ that I read the backstory re the ‘Deer Hunter’ camp vs the ‘Coming Home’ camp. There was a real behind-the-scenes soap opera rivalry between the two. If I recall correctly, Jon Voight was even quoted as saying that he was glad he beat out De Niro for the Oscar.

    • @cdallapiccola
      @cdallapiccola Год назад +1

      @@QuirkyGirl10 Fascinating. I'll have to read that. Coming Home is an excellent move, and Jon Voigt gives a wonderful performance. But Robert De Niro...in my book, it's his greatest performance ever. Yes, even better than Travis Bickle and Jake La Motta.

  • @sfitz0076
    @sfitz0076 Год назад +10

    Not sure I understand how Ben Kingsley is doing brown face when his father is Indian.

    • @anthonys.8569
      @anthonys.8569 Год назад +5

      Yeah this guy's logic is all over the place. Arguing that and Dances with Wolves is just white savior bs is super short sighted. Not even the point of the film...not sure where this guy gets his opinions from on race

    • @tommyo.3535
      @tommyo.3535 Год назад

      I think he mentioned it just to be aware that the portrayal could potentially spark that discourse, not necessarily to say it is definitely brownface

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 Год назад

      @@anthonys.8569 the producer of this video is just going on his own feelings and prejudices like everyone else.

  • @scottlouis
    @scottlouis Год назад +59

    Terrific list. My automatic thought goes to Crash over Brokeback Mountain. I recall being floored. Like being punched in the gut.

    • @thadtaylor126
      @thadtaylor126 Год назад +6

      Crash, outside of Michael Peña, is bad, and is the most ridiculous Oscar bait movie I’ve seen.

    • @jc2333
      @jc2333 Год назад +3

      Brokeback mountain is better

    • @jothishprabu8
      @jothishprabu8 Год назад +3

      I don't understand the hate around that movie. It's pretty decent imo.

    • @michaeladkins6
      @michaeladkins6 Год назад

      @@jothishprabu8 Its the probable reasoning of why the bad movie won.

    • @paulinegallagher7821
      @paulinegallagher7821 Год назад

      @@jothishprabu8 decent? the patronizing playing with racist stereotype tropes was insulting. Oooh the horrible white woman who hates and distrusts Mexicans, changes her mind in a heartbreaking (NO, cringe as hell and insulting) moment of 'clarity' with her very put upon maid. Matt Dillon we find isn't a racist after all' how could he be when he rescues Thandi Newton from a burning car? who cares if hes a sexual molester?? hes not a racist and he looks after his ailing dad, that's the main thing. Ryan Phillipe, the genuine good guy who inexplicably does something awful near the end of the movie, HES the real racist. Oooh, mind blown! don't judge a book by its cover! that's the mind numbingly tone deaf and wrong as f 'message' in this movie. Awful, just awful. The fact the director is a creep in real life does not surprise me.

  • @fastbowler
    @fastbowler Год назад +8

    I do remember A Beautiful Mind very well; Russell Crowe was excellent in it, and probably better deserved the Oscar for that performance over Gladiator.I It's not the best Oscar Big Picture winner, but it's not too shabby. But really, Ron Howard should have won for Apollo 13 (not nominated!!) over Mel Gibson' directing for Braveheart (which I loathed;' yeah I said it), and Howard didn't have to win for A Beautiful Mind. Recently heartbreaking for me was Michael Keaton not winning over Eddie Redmayne. And I dare say it, Everything Everywhere All at Once will be outpaced in cinematic legacy by The Banshees of Inishirin and Tar.

    • @1019q
      @1019q Год назад

      yes.

  • @nathanielberntson8883
    @nathanielberntson8883 Год назад +12

    Cate Blanchett vs Gwyneth Paltrow, need I say more

    • @bbcbbc1717
      @bbcbbc1717 Год назад +2

      Agreed, Cate should have won!!

    • @andreideferrer
      @andreideferrer Год назад +3

      Fernanda Montenegro over both of them on that particular race

    • @jamesalexander5623
      @jamesalexander5623 Год назад

      Yes! Cate can act and Gwyneth sort of does.

  • @lastmatinee
    @lastmatinee Год назад +5

    I’m honestly surprised you didn’t include the travesty that was Crash winning Best Picture over Brokeback Mountain….
    Or Jennifer Lawrence winning Best Actress over Naomi Watts for The Impossible.

    • @sharonalbanese8084
      @sharonalbanese8084 10 месяцев назад

      I really hope Naomi Watts wins some day. She should've been nominated for Mulholland Drive too, she was amazing in that and wasn't even nominated.

  • @mountart2
    @mountart2 Год назад +3

    Not sure I agree with Judy Garland over Grace Kelly. Grace seems to be acting as opposed to Judy's over-acting.

  • @lonzo9569
    @lonzo9569 Год назад +2

    Gywneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love) over Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth) was an earthquake of nonsense. Unbelievably bad Oscar decision.

  • @t221000
    @t221000 Год назад +8

    I 100% agree with you about "Training Day". That was an over the top one note performance that did not deserve the win.

    • @celestialdemon1316
      @celestialdemon1316 Год назад

      Agreed. Denzel Washington winning over Tom Wilkinson upset me.

    • @matthewrosenthal753
      @matthewrosenthal753 Год назад

      I also agree about Training day but Denzel should have won for Malcom X and honestly this one should’ve been either Will Smith for Ali, or Sean Penn for I am Sam.

    • @suarezguy
      @suarezguy Год назад

      A little over the top but very far from one-note.

  • @bbcbbc1717
    @bbcbbc1717 Год назад +67

    Sissy was great in Carrie but Paddy’s great script was catalyst for Faye’s epic performance. She deserved the Oscar.

    • @mr.orange8211
      @mr.orange8211 Год назад +1

      Sissy deserved it

    • @phalynwilliams4119
      @phalynwilliams4119 Год назад +3

      Faye Dunaway was the It girl at the time. She was going to to win regardless. Faye Dunaway did an excellent job, so did Sissy.

    • @michaeladkins6
      @michaeladkins6 Год назад +4

      @@phalynwilliams4119 My problem that year was Network losing to Rocky. I think Network won more awards that night. But, Best Picture went to a formulaic boxing movie. Of course, other wrong choices are Forest Gump over Pulp Fiction, The English Patient over Fargo, Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan and worst of all, Crash over Brokeback Mountain. They are all bad Oscar lore. I understand why you didnt mention them.

    • @jeffreywillstewart
      @jeffreywillstewart Год назад +4

      Both Network and Carrie were groundbreaking. Network introduced us to news entertainment. Carrie introduced us to teenage horror films and jump endings. Both had amazing source material. Stephen King versus Paddy Chayefsky. A tough call. And of course Rocky won in the bicentennial year. I guess they missed how Carrie's blood streaked gown in front of a blue backdrop with silver stars formed a demented. American Flag. Lol

    • @Nicksonian
      @Nicksonian Год назад +5

      I don't see this as enough of a robbery to qualify. They're both great performances so why is it included here?

  • @danielflynn8530
    @danielflynn8530 Год назад +7

    Do you think they made some mistakes for the most recent 2023 Oscars? I think Jamie Lee Curtis is great but I think some of the choices for Supporting actresses could have won.

    • @seblepage
      @seblepage Год назад

      I love Jamie Lee Curtis and was glad she won, but yeah it felt like an honorary Oscar to celebrate her prolific career more than honouring an exceptionally good performance. In the same movie alone, Stephanie Hsu was more memorable and impactful.

  • @vincentschmitt7597
    @vincentschmitt7597 Год назад +4

    11: giving the Oscar for best costumes to Ghandi over Tron. The attire from Ghandi was taken directly from real life. Tron's were entirely new and creative.

  • @joeland87
    @joeland87 Год назад +4

    We’re not going to talk about Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan, or Glenn Campbell getting robbed for his heartbreaking original song I’m not gonna miss you?

  • @SkolneyVikings
    @SkolneyVikings Год назад +9

    Jackson should have won for Pulp, but he is clearly a supporting actor compared to Travolta on screen time alone.

  • @joelalbertogarza7048
    @joelalbertogarza7048 Год назад +19

    Yeoh over Blanchett is gonna be on this list within the next couple of years.

    • @kishandev9947
      @kishandev9947 Год назад +2

      nope....not really

    • @peteradaniel
      @peteradaniel Год назад +2

      Sorry but Blanchett is basically playing a carbon copy of Blue Jasmin, right down to her acting in Lydia Tár’s eventual demise. Yeoh was unrecognisable in EEAAO. Tár isn’t even an interesting film. Her demise is completely unrealistic and it would be immeasurably more interesting if she got away with her behaviour, because we all know that’s actually what happens. If you know anything about the industry we all know the “Me too” movement only ousted the ‘long in the tooth’ conductors who should have retired years ago. There’s been no change in hierarchical abuse.

    • @joelalbertogarza7048
      @joelalbertogarza7048 Год назад +9

      @@peteradaniel Lydia Tár is closer to an amalgamation of both Fletcher and Neiman in Whiplash than Blanchett’s role in Blue Jasmine. The movie is essentially Whiplash through a classical music lens.
      I never said Tár should’ve won Best Picture, I was referencing the Best Actress award. I love Michelle Yeoh, she’s one of the best martial artists to ever grace the screen, and she shows that off in EEAAO (which I am in fact a fan of even though it gets a bit oversaturated towards the end; I’ll turn on Crouching Tiger if I wanna watch Yeoh really kick ass). But her “acting chops” are by no means anywhere close to Blanchett’s in Tár. There are some immense subtleties that she portrays in that role, and I went in to that movie expecting not to like it. As someone who’s been playing in professional orchestras for the last decade, the level that Blanchett reaches to portray a modern-day “crooked but knowledgeable conductor” is out of this world.
      The Academy is known for giving out participation awards, and the reality is most likely the fact that Blanchett already has 2 Oscars, Yeoh has none (and in fact was the first Asian woman to ever receive one), and EEAAO was winning everything else that night anyway so it pretty much just rounded out the night. We all know how the Academy likes to play favorites - it’s actually kind of comical since, in the end, it ends up mirroring the actual plot of Tár. And yeah, whatever “message” Tár is trying to convey is also considerably muddled towards the end. That doesn’t change the fact that Blanchett absolutely kills that role. My pick for Best Picture would’ve been Banshees, flawless from beginning to end.

    • @peteradaniel
      @peteradaniel Год назад

      @@joelalbertogarza7048 obviously we’re both professional musicians, therefor we should both understand the idea of making a horse race out of an interpretive art form like acting is absolutely ridiculous. Imo EEAAO getting it’s flowers is completely deserved. It was a film coming from the perspective of an new type of American family and explored it’s subject matter with immense philosophical fortitude, combining both western and eastern cultures in philosophy, to end up with something that was distinctly American. That’s the first time I’d ever seen that successfully portrayed on film.
      I don’t like your racially charged implications with regards to Michelle Yeoh winning a participation award on behalf of her being Asian. To justify Yeoh’s performance I would just look at the multiple different characters she had to embody in order to bring the role to life. It was a real tour de force in acting technique, similarly with Ke Huy Qwan’s multi award winning performance. Btw both also won golden globes and SAG awards, not to mention the multiple critics choices they also won. So if this is the academy playing favourites how does that explain the multiple awards which were previously bestowed. The only other film deserving of the top award, imo, was Women Talking. Banshees was a god awful, hackneyed diatribe from Martin Mcdonaugh who was just regurgitates the gore porn of Lieutenant of Inishmore to tell a Weak and pointless story of two people who break friendship. It pretends to be philosophical but ends up being pointless and without any substance. This is just my opinion and we’re both entitled to them, especially in interpreting film.

    • @joelalbertogarza7048
      @joelalbertogarza7048 Год назад +2

      @@peteradaniel Most Oscar winning films are also the same films that win directly before that at the Golden Globes, SAG, BAFTA, etc etc. It’s entirely a self-celebrating Hollywood parade of itself. A lot of ppl predict Oscar winners (and are usually right) based on who/what’s been winning in the award circuit previous to it. Should also be obvious since they’re all essentially the same movies that make it through this rotation. Pretty sure there are hundreds of movies that, in 5-10 years, people will agree were miles better than a majority of the stuff that ended up on this award circuit.
      The Academy (or any of the other Hollywood award festivals) playing favorites = the Academy making picks that are “flashy” or garner more attention = the Academy picking someone because they’re the first to do something (Yeoh being the first Asian woman to win an Oscar, Brendan Fraser getting his first Oscar, Jamie Lee Curtis getting her first, etc etc). It’s not because “she’s Asian,” it’s because “she’s first.” People love stories about “firsts.” Those stories are more click-bait worthy than “Cate Blanchett wins her third Oscar.”
      Everyone knows the Oscars or any of these Hollywood awards are by no means representative of what the actual best films and actors are. That’s kind of the point of this video, that the Oscars get it royally wrong a ton of the time. Hollywood is a business that’s sole purpose is to make money through entertainment, and these award circuits are products of that. They’re bred with the purpose of getting people talking and getting people interested. It’s not a spelling bee.

  • @davidnaumann5511
    @davidnaumann5511 Год назад +2

    Bette Midler for the Rose over Sally Field in Norma Ray. “I was robbed” as Better says!

  • @safk29
    @safk29 Год назад +17

    Great clip!! One that always confuses me was 2000’s masterpiece Requiem for a Dream. Ellen Burstyn should have won best actress over winner Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich.

    • @matthewcloranmusic7745
      @matthewcloranmusic7745 Год назад +3

      THIS! One of the biggest mistakes.

    • @michaeladkins6
      @michaeladkins6 Год назад +1

      Im glad Julia Roberts won. She wont win for anything else. But, Burstyn was amazing.

  • @paulteague6837
    @paulteague6837 Год назад +6

    Tommy Lee Jones over Ralph Fiennes 1994 Best Supporting Actor. Fiennes is the definition of evil in his portrayal of the real-life Amon Goeth.

    • @johnbrowne3950
      @johnbrowne3950 Год назад

      Not too difficult to figure out why Fiennes wasn't picked.

  • @danielshinkle6686
    @danielshinkle6686 Год назад +8

    There is many time I felt the Oscar's was a joke but Shakespeare in Love winning best picture did it for me.

  • @OziJo1
    @OziJo1 Год назад +6

    Will we look back at this years Best Actress in the same way? I loved Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere but Cate Blanchett’s performance in Tar was extraordinary.

    • @seblepage
      @seblepage Год назад +3

      To be fair, Cate Blanchett is exceptional in everything she does. One of the best actresses of her generation, I’d say. But she’s already won twice. Michelle Yeoh may not have been quite as good, but it was an Oscar honouring her career more than anything. No one really had a chance over Michelle Yeoh this year.

    • @Sheren0133
      @Sheren0133 Год назад +1

      @@seblepageThat’s shouldn’t be count as fair. Like you said (w no disrespect), “Yeoh May not have been quite as good, but it was… honoring her career”. Then it should be a career honoring award, and not a best performance award.

    • @seblepage
      @seblepage Год назад

      @@Sheren0133 I agree with you completely. I didn't mean to say that the Academy is right in giving awards that cover an entire career rather than a specific performance. It's just the reality of things. The Oscars are a popularity contest, and members vote for what's trendy or for what appears right in the eyes of Hollywood and/or the general public. There's also a lot of lobbying that happens. Oftentimes, if a particular actor, director, writer or whatever appears to be "due" for an Oscar, they will often get it despite the fact that they were not necessarily the best in their field that particular year.

    • @sharonalbanese8084
      @sharonalbanese8084 10 месяцев назад

      You are right, but this type of thing happens over and over. I think thats why jamie leigh curtis won as well. ​@Sheren0133

  • @Justinrombough
    @Justinrombough Год назад +4

    Goodfellas not winning is an all-timer!

  • @thebigwagyu
    @thebigwagyu Год назад +1

    I don’t care about the King’s Speech, I’ve never seen it, but the fact that it went over The Social Network will always bring a smile to my face. The Social Network is by far the most overrated movie of the last few decades, it’s Fincher’s Sixth best film (Zodiac, Gone Girl, Fight Club, Seven, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and then The Social Network) and you’re comparing it to Citizen Kane???

    • @suarezguy
      @suarezguy Год назад

      Thought Panic Room and Se7en were Fincher's only really good movies.

  • @eviljeff1297
    @eviljeff1297 Год назад +4

    Crash over Brokeback Mountain still upsets me.

  • @briantuma1502
    @briantuma1502 Год назад +2

    Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s “impersonation” in Capote over Heath Ledger’s understated performance in Brokeback Mountain

  • @orpheus9037
    @orpheus9037 Год назад +4

    Second guessing the Oscars is a full time cottage industry at this point. What I've learned from watching these award shows over the years is that the films being honored are secondary - as is the question of their quality, or lack thereof. The principal purpose the Academy wants to achieve with its annual show - that is, when the formula of the show is working correctly - is to honor films in a way the gives an emotional payoff for the audience, basically a feel good encounter with movies that everyone can partake in as a form of emotional investment.This is particularly notable in the acting awards, where each nominee represents a particular emotional story line with a potential payoff should they receive the award. This was perfectly illustrated this year with awards going to Brendan Fraser, an actor whose career had literally fallen into limbo that last few decades, and Michelle Yeoh, the first Asian actress to win the Best Actress award.

    • @emmalancaster2013
      @emmalancaster2013 Год назад

      Cannes is the award show for serious film. U.S. awards are for fun, popular or sentimental films.

  • @chrisweidner4768
    @chrisweidner4768 Год назад +4

    Not giving Val Kilmer the best supporting Oscar for his portrayal of Holiday jumps to mind. Not giving Saving Private Ryan best film a close 2nd.

  • @spencers2556
    @spencers2556 Год назад +11

    I love that I get to hear what a masterpiece The Social Network is followed by a trashing of La La Land. My two favourite movies!

    • @xpindy
      @xpindy Год назад +1

      @@sij809 Both films are over rated- possibly because their competition was so weak.

    • @jerrettbarkley456
      @jerrettbarkley456 Год назад +2

      La La Land should of won best picture. Nobody is EVER GOING TO TALK ABOUT MOONLIGHT. Unless you actually bring up LA LA Land. I can’t stand modern black struggle movies.. As a black man myself.

    • @spencers2556
      @spencers2556 Год назад +1

      @@jerrettbarkley456 That’s a good point, but it’s pretty indicative of the Oscars best picture winners of the last 10-15 years. There isn’t a single winner that people return to, but they were pandering to socially “important” issues of the respective time period (for the most part).

    • @woodside4life
      @woodside4life Год назад

      @@jerrettbarkley456I feel you on that.

    • @woodside4life
      @woodside4life Год назад

      @@spencers2556 Good point. I had to go back over a decade to find a Best Picture winner I’ve watched more than once.

  • @genuinebrendan
    @genuinebrendan Год назад +7

    I will personally never get over the Academy awarding The Artist Best Picture over The Tree of Life

    • @jothishprabu8
      @jothishprabu8 Год назад +2

      You gotta understand that The Artist is a more accessible film.

    • @markkelso871
      @markkelso871 Год назад

      ​@@jothishprabu8lolllll totally

    • @michaeladkins6
      @michaeladkins6 Год назад +1

      @@jothishprabu8 Accessibility is a nice word for all of the bad choices.

  • @robertocervera912
    @robertocervera912 Год назад +4

    Cate Blanchett should have won for Elizabeth, over Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love

  • @alextrivunovic644
    @alextrivunovic644 Год назад +12

    Carney over Pacino 1975. How is that not number 1 on any list like this?

    • @benfranklin1533
      @benfranklin1533 Год назад +5

      Seriously! The guy literally names every 70’s Pacino movie except The Godfather Part II lol. Easily one of the top three biggest acting robberies.

    • @alextrivunovic644
      @alextrivunovic644 Год назад

      @@benfranklin1533 bizarre! I'm beginning to think very little research was done for this piece.

    • @travisbickle1601
      @travisbickle1601 Год назад +3

      Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather part 2 is the greatest performance in American cinema, absolutely robbed.

  • @okonh0wp
    @okonh0wp Год назад +3

    Saying Martin Landau shouldn't have won is fighting words

  • @riddick729
    @riddick729 10 месяцев назад +1

    Perhaps the most criminal snub is Val Kilmer not even getting a nod for Tombstone

  • @cooperwesley1536
    @cooperwesley1536 Год назад +19

    I can't fault you for starting with Garland's tragic loss to Kelly, but I was hoping you'd have started with my personal bugaboo, Judy Holliday's win in 1950 over Bette Davis (or in the minds of some, Gloria Swanson). For me, the Oscar belonged to Davis, who suffered (probably) from a split vote with her greedy costar Anne Baxter. All About Eve is my favorite film from Hollywood's "Golden Age," but it only works because of Davis' career-defining performance as Margo Channing. Swanson's Norma Desmond is certainly fun to watch (and I love it), but it's oddly campy at times, and seems weirdly out-of-place in an otherwise classic film. Holliday is fine in Born Yesterday, but there was nothing Oscar-worthy about her performance as the goofy blonde with a big heart who men regularly underestimate. I mean, Harlow did it first... and better.

    • @stevenrogers7884
      @stevenrogers7884 Год назад +2

      Completely disagree but that's what makes horse races. Judy Holliday give one of the best comedic performances on film.

    • @cliffarroyo9554
      @cliffarroyo9554 Год назад +1

      Swanson is great, but it's a one-dimensional role, there's no real character arc - she's crazy at the beginning and crazy at the end whereas Davis's character changes a lot. Holliday is also great in a very tricky role.

  • @AREMICO
    @AREMICO Год назад +2

    Emma Stone winning over Isabelle Huppert was revolting… Emma always plays the same character, she only showed a bit more range in Birdman

  • @TheLauren800
    @TheLauren800 Год назад +5

    Emma Stone and Jennifer Lawrence wins really bug me. Just giving it to the popular girls is how it feels. I read an article saying even Emma Stone seem to know she didn't deserve her win.

    • @billolsen4360
      @billolsen4360 Год назад

      The Oscars are a false and commercial festival. We should stop placing value on it.

  • @deenice7155
    @deenice7155 Год назад +1

    The Color Purple will forever be on the list for snubs. Pick a category. Supporting actress, actress and score come to mind immediately. The actors and actresses aged several times on camera, played the hell out of their roles and had true star quality turns in iconic roles. Whoppi carried that movie in a tour de force performance. Her first performance if memory serves me correctly. And her supporting actress award a few years later just didn’t feel like a true “make up” award

  • @jaylouis8227
    @jaylouis8227 Год назад +10

    For me, one of the biggest snubs is Alan Arkin winning over Eddie Murphy. I've heard that the Norbit movie may have ruined his chances. If that's true, then that's really a shame because he was brilliant in Dreamgirls.

    • @andywinslow9638
      @andywinslow9638 Год назад +1

      He'll yeah. Even a bigger snub. He didn't even get nominated for Mr. Church in the year Casey Affleck won for a mediocre performance 😕

    • @emmalancaster2013
      @emmalancaster2013 Год назад +1

      Yeah, that is why he lost. Norbit. Insane.

    • @SallySmithORourke1810
      @SallySmithORourke1810 Год назад +1

      Alan Arkin was finally recognized for a huge body of work, which they do a lot.

    • @jaylouis8227
      @jaylouis8227 Год назад

      @Sally Smith O'Rourke Yes, they do, and it always seems to happen during a year a more deserving actor or actress should win the trophy.

    • @emmalancaster2013
      @emmalancaster2013 Год назад +1

      @@SallySmithORourke1810 That’s true, but I think Eddie lost bcz of the Norbit mess. They do give out Special and Honorary Oscars for overall excellence and contributions to the movie industry, even to those who won competitive Oscars. Steve Martin and James Earl Jones are among the many who have won these Special and Honorary Oscars. Murphy might get one, too, someday.

  • @maryannangros8834
    @maryannangros8834 Год назад +1

    Peter O'Toole EIGHT bleeping Times

  • @thephone1753
    @thephone1753 Год назад +8

    Bill Murray (Lost in Translation) losing to Sean Penn (Mystic River) in 2003 was right up there with all time serious Oscar crimes. Runner-up Burt Lancaster (Atlantic City) losing to Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond) another serious crime.

    • @car9melo
      @car9melo Год назад

      😂😂😂

    • @direcorbie
      @direcorbie Год назад +1

      Not a prayer that ANYONE other than Fonda was going to win the Oscar, and he would have won against any other performance in history.

  • @ZPD-doo-DAH
    @ZPD-doo-DAH Год назад +2

    Cher in Moonstruck over Glenn Close for Fatal Attraction. Although I love both movies, Glenn Close was robbed.

  • @debbiemcnamara7059
    @debbiemcnamara7059 Год назад +5

    Austin Butler for Elvis! Elvis Best Picture.

  • @craigjohnson6423
    @craigjohnson6423 Год назад +1

    "Upper middle-brow." And THAT I shall steal. Thank you.