Siskel & Ebert - Oscar Nomination Surprises (1993)
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- Gene and Roger discuss the surprising inclusions and omissions among the 65th Annual Academy Awards nominations in February 1993. By this point they were no longer devoting entire shows to post-hoc complaining and kvetching, as they instead had full length special shows titled "Memo To The Academy".
I loved watching these two guys when I was growing up. They are a big reason I became a big fan of movies. I miss them.
Still miss these guys, watched them all the way through the 1990s and it was fun to get all the lowdown on the latest films of which great ones came out seemingly every month. Show was just never the same after Gene passed these guys were gold together.
The worst exclusions in the Best Documentary Feature:
1. Shoah (1985)
2. Hoop Dreams (1994, though nominated for Best Film Editing)
3. Won't You Be My Neighbour? (2018)
4. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
5. Grizzly Man (2005)
Heart of darkness was not eligible
Crumb
Life Itself
@@rhyancoleman6462 That's what I was gonna say.
7:03 - Compare Roger's comments about Jaye Davidson here with his precious pearl-clutching on "If We Picked The Winners".
1. Best Documentary Feature - Brother's Keeper
2. Best Supporting Actress - Alfre Woodard, Passion Fish
3. Best Picture - The Player
30 years later, the whole society is one big Crying game. Unforgiven the only movie that mattered that year. What a film! Especially the writing and Cinematography. Freeman, Harris and Hackman 3 of the greatest actors of all time.
And of course, Clint Eastwood.
And the documentary branch kept screwing it up, not only with Hoop Dreams and Crumb, but even films after Siskel and Ebert both died, like Life Itself and Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Siskel forgot that the voters went for the louder and showy Alex Roma instead of the understated Shelly Levine
What's sad though was Pacino was nominated and won in Best Actor for Scent of a Woman so why nominate his ass in two categories?
It’s interesting to watch this with the HOOP DREAMS snub just lying in wait…
Tyler Smith, wrong year my dude.
@@thekingofmovies193 I’m not suggesting that it was this year. I’m taking note of their complaints about the Documentary branch knowing that the next year all of their problems would peak with the snub of HOOP DREAMS.
@@tylersmith4925 I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you if I did. I personally don't have a verdict on Hoop Dreams so I can't say I really How I feel about that. But I can say that I think that it's surprising how Hoop Dreams became one of the most popular and critically acclaimed documentaries at the time it came out, but yet no Best documentary nomination.
@@thekingofmovies193 A lot of people were mad about that so there was an investigation. But they have still screwed it up with docs like Life Itself and Won't You Be My Neighbor?
The crying game got a lot of nominations but very few wins
The Academy’s directors branch always hates on Reiner. He has THREE nominations from his peers at the DGA (Stand By Me, When Harry Met Sally, and A Few Good Men) but was snubbed by Oscar for all three.
Marisa Tomei's Oscar win was idiotic. Sorry, not sorry, I loved her on As the World Turns but not in My Cousin Vinny. ):
She won because she was the only American in that category and the voters didn't want to give both acting awards to foreign people. Emma Thompson was front runner in Best Actress, see.
I thought that she was great in My Cousin Vinny, especially in the last act when she made her testimony on the stand, when her knowledge of Automobiles was being questioned and needed. I haven't seen the other nominees' works, but I can assure you that I will.
Make up your minds; you have said in the past that they don't nominate successful pictures because they already got their money, and now you are saying they won't nominate pictures that don't do well at the box office.
When did they make the former statement? I think it's more likely true that voters are less inclined to *award* films that have already left theatres for that reason, but it isn't true of nominations necessarily. Financial flops and pictures that no one has heard of tend to be overlooked.