Oscar robbed!

Welsh Megaman

Peter Sellers should have won Best Actor for 'Being There' at the 1980 oscars, instead of Dustin Hoffman (Kramer vs. Kramer).

Any others that Boardsies can think of?

Telecaster58

I always thought that Paul Newman deserved the Oscar for Cool Hand Luke, until I discovered that Rod Steiger had won it for In the Heat of the Night.
That said the great robbery was Peter O'Toole losing for Lawrence of Arabia to Gregory Peck's To Kill a Mockingbird.

Theboinkmaster

How about all of the oscars Forest Gump won over Shawshank Redemption.

velo.2010

Stallone should have won for Rocky! However, the Oscar was awarded posthumously to Peter Finch for essentially one scene in Network.

Stallone was brilliant in the first movie - it seemed natural, almost ad-libbing than acting. I think he tried too hard in his later Rocky films and movie roles to recreate that.

Leonardo Dicaprio for any movie ever.....

Firewalkwithme

Almost everything Gravity related other than the visuals.

Halle Berry - token black Oscar.

Edit - to be clear these are ones I think shouldn't have won.

ziedth

Shakespeare in Love over saving private Ryan was madness IMO.

Denzel in Training Day over Russell Crowe in a beautiful mind I didn't fully agree with.

As much as I enjoyed as good as it gets I think Matt Damon should have won on Oscar for Good will hunting.

Leo DiCaprio hasn't been robbed exactly but he was desperately unlucky this year. Same with Blood Diamomd up against Last king of Scotland.

enfant terrible

Christian Bale - American Psycho

FunLover18

ziedth wrote: »

Leo DiCaprio hasn't been robbed exactly but he was desperately unlucky this year. Same with Blood Diamomd up against Last king of Scotland.

I always thought he was nominated for the wrong film that year. The Departed was a much better film and performance. I really wasn't a fan of Blood Diamond, and never thought Leo's character was a particularly difficult challenge acting wise, whereas The Departed is a magnificent performance of a conflicted character.

kingtiger

Samuel L for Pulp Fiction

Liam McPoyle

Sean Penn for Milk over Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler.

FortuneChip

I think you've said most of the ones I know.
Saving Private Ryan & Mickey Rourke in particular.
There was nothing "new" in Shakespeare in Love, it was a very traditional period drama, Saving Private Ryan was a visceral war movie with a great group of dynamic characters that worked so well off each-other.

Mickey Rourke was just brilliant in The Wrestler. Gut-wrenching.

xalot

Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction. Baffling.

Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in love over Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth.

bullvine

Worst ever is Tom Berenger in Platoon as Sgt Barnes over Michael Caine for Hannah and her sisters wtf?

Alan Rickman wasnt even nominated for Hans Gruber.

Ted Levine for Silence of the lambs.

They just don't like Bad Guys

dark crystal

Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List to Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive. Probably one of the single most baffling Oscar decisions ever.

shazzerman

Isn't it true that Jack Lemmon didn't even get nominated for Glengarry Glen Ross?

Arghus

Mightn't be a popular opinion but I think Joaquin Phoenix deserved the Oscar for The Master, rather than Daniel Day Lewis for Lincoln.

jonnyfingers

Crash winning best picture I'll never understand. So any other film in its category can feel hard done-by.

krudler

Cartoon_Head wrote: »

Almost everything Gravity related other than the visuals.

Halle Berry - token black Oscar.

Edit - to be clear these are ones I think shouldn't have won.

Berry is a woeful actress, Catwoman basically killed her career only for a recurring role in the X-Men franchise, and she's the most boring character in them.

Manchegan

There's no more glaring omission than that of Adèle Exarchopoulos, neither nominated last year or this for Best Actress in Blue Is the Warmest Colour.

Tipsy McSwagger

Dances with Wolves beating Goodfellas in 1991 and Silence of the Lambs beating Beauty and the Beast in 1992. Now I love Silence of the Lambs but BATB is a cinematic masterpiece and the greatest Disney film of all time.

MfMan

How have you gotten this far and not mentioned Titanic (KerChingTic) over LA Confidential? Robert Mitchum was never even nominated for one, an absolute anomaly considering his performance in Night of the Hunter.

Telecaster58

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Dances with Wolves beating Goodfellas in 1991 and Silence of the Lambs beating Beauty and the Beast in 1992. Now I love Silence of the Lambs but BATB is a cinematic masterpiece and the greatest Disney film of all time.

It was a cartoon for chrissakes

bullvine

dark crystal wrote: »

Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List to Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive. Probably one of the single most baffling Oscar decisions ever.

They just don't like bad guys!

AnonoBoy

Ordinary People winning best picture over Raging Bull is a weird one.

krudler

Telecaster58 wrote: »

It was a cartoon for chrissakes

So? some of the best films ever made are cartoons. Beauty and the Beast is my favourite Disney (non Pixar) film as well. The Lion King a close second.

Tipsy McSwagger

Telecaster58 wrote: »

It was a cartoon for chrissakes

Wall-e should have won in 2009 but wasn't nominated because only 5 nominees were allowed and the Oscar went to the awful Slumdog Millionaire. The academy knew they fcuked up big time and in 2010 there were 10 nominees including Up.

ziedth

jonnyfingers wrote: »

Crash winning best picture I'll never understand. So any other film in its category can feel hard done-by.

That's a good shout, I think Brokeback mountain was overwhelming favourite that year. Munich was a great film so that was hard done by too.

tunguska

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Dances with Wolves beating Goodfellas in 1991

I actually think Dances with wolves is the better film. I think Goodfellas is a fine film and all but theres a nastiness about it(understandable given the subject matter) that leaves me feeling cold.

MfMan wrote: »

How have you gotten this far and not mentioned Titanic (KerChingTic) over LA Confidential?

This for me is the biggest rip off in the history of the Oscars. I honestly dont understand how something as truly awful as Titanic could be judged a better film than LA confidential. I get that Titanic became the highest grossing movie of all time(at that time) but that should have nothing to do with artistic merit. I think that decision by the academy was corrupt and down to politics more than anything else.

Aidric

As much as I love PS Hoffman and Capote, Heath Ledger should have walked the 2005 best actor category. A performance almost without equal.

Liam McPoyle

Aidric wrote: »

As much as I love PS Hoffman and Capote, Heath Ledger should have walked the 2005 best actor category. A performance almost without equal.

QFT.

Being passed over for Brokeback (and his death) are the reasons he got the not for TDK imo.

Telecaster58

Business Cat wrote: »

QFT.

Being passed over for Brokeback (and his death) are the reasons he got the not for TDK imo.

Correct. So an error has been compounded by giving him a "sentimental" Oscar, which is just as egregious as passing someone over. The award for playing the Joker was absurd.

AnonoBoy

Telecaster58 wrote: »

Correct. So an error has been compounded by giving him a "sentimental" Oscar, which is just as egregious as passing someone over. The award for playing the Joker was absurd.

Al Pacino getting one for Scent of a Woman is another example of this.

Telecaster58

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Al Pacino getting one for Scent of a Woman is another example of this.

At least he had a body of work to admire. Heath Ledger, on the other hand, had very little of note to show.

humanji

I always felt sorry for Andy Serkis not getting a nomination for Gollum. He did a phenomenal job in the roll. I can't remember who else was nominated that he'd be against, so not sure if he should have won the Oscar. But he definitely should have gotten a nomination, in my opinion.

Skerries

I felt that Dan Day Lewis (Gangs of New York) should have gotten it over Adrien Brody (The Pianist)

xalot

Skerries wrote: »

I felt that Dan Day Lewis (Gangs of New York) should have gotten it over Adrien Brody (The Pianist)

No dont agree with this, Adrian Brody carried that whole film on his shoulders, such an impressive piece of work. Was the only time I saw a whole cinema stay in their seats to the very last credits.

Such a pity what he's done with his career since though.....

Find it mind blowing that Julianne Moore has never won an oscar.

Tipsy McSwagger

Can't believe nobody has mentioned Driving Miss Daisy winning for best film in 1989. It beat My Left Foot, Field of Dreams, Born on the Fourth of July and Dead Poets Society.

budhabob

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Dances with Wolves beating Goodfellas in 1991 and Silence of the Lambs beating Beauty and the Beast in 1992. Now I love Silence of the Lambs but BATB is a cinematic masterpiece and the greatest Disney film of all time.

As much as I love Goodfellas, Dances with Wolves is in a different league! Its a film that has left a lasting impression on me.

FortuneChip

xalot wrote: »

Find it mind blowing that Julianne Moore has never won an oscar.

Justice could be on the way, she's out and away the main front-runner this year already.

RosyLily

+1 for Sean Penn (Milk) winning instead of Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler)! Love that film; Rourke is amazing in it!!

Heath Ledger definitely should have won for Brokeback Mountain. Heartbreaking performance. Still baffles me that Titanic is up there with Ben-Hur and Return of the King in terms of Oscar wins.

pickarooney

xalot wrote: »

No dont agree with this, Adrian Brody carried that whole film on his shoulders, such an impressive piece of work. Was the only time I saw a whole cinema stay in their seats to the very last credits.

Such a pity what he's done with his career since though.....

He's pretty good as your man's wife in Masters of Sex.

Tipsy McSwagger

Chariots of Fire beating Raiders of the Lost Ark is another terrible decision.

get_me_beer

Skerries wrote: »

I felt that Dan Day Lewis (Gangs of New York) should have gotten it over Adrien Brody (The Pianist)

gangs of new york is a terrible film

get_me_beer

anthony hopkins should have won for remains of the day instead of tom hanks for philedelphia , much stronger performance by him than in silence of the lambs

niallon

Always thought they got Crowe and Washington arseways, Washington should've won for The Hurricane the same year Crowe was nominated for The Insider (of course Spacey beat the two with a deserved win). But then after Crowe getting the award next year for Gladiator, a film that was far bigger than his performance IMO, Washington gets thrown an Oscar for Training Day, alright film with an alright (still better than most others) performance from him. Crowe meanwhile misses out for A Beautiful Mind same year, awful film, great performance.

Yarf Yarf

Julia Roberts winning for Erin Brokovich over Ellen Burstyn for Requiem For A Dream was an outrageous call. Jim Carrey also deserved nominations at least for The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. How they could nominate Kate Winslet and totally shaft Jim Carrey for the same film in which he plays a character at least as important as hers and just as convincingly is baffling.

On the subject of Di Caprio, I don't really think he has ever been robbed. Any year he has been nominated, there has always been someone who deserved it more.

sky88

Michael caine over tom cruise for magnolia and over michael clarke duncan for green mile

tunguska

sky88 wrote: »

Michael caine over tom cruise for magnolia and over michael clarke duncan for green mile

Yes this one, that was a massive travesty. Tom cruise was amazing in magnolia. I only recently rewatched it and I think his performance is even better than I remembered. Robbed big time

Ageyev

There are so many...

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Ordinary People winning best picture over Raging Bull is a weird one.

Agree with most that have been mentioned but Raging Bull in particular deserved to sweep up. From directing to acting, script, editing and cinematography (it won on editing and acting for De Niro).

Almost anything other than a Mirimax film when they won.

Forrest Gump winning over Pulp was a croc.

Searching for Sugar Man was very good but I'd have preferred 5 Broken Cameras.

Random pub quiz fact: only three films have won the "Big Five" grand slam of Best: picture, actress, actor, script and director. Those three were It Happened One Night, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and Silence of the Lambs.

mzungu

tunguska wrote: »

I actually think Dances with wolves is the better film. I think Goodfellas is a fine film and all but theres a nastiness about it(understandable given the subject matter) that leaves me feeling cold.




This for me is the biggest rip off in the history of the Oscars. I honestly dont understand how something as truly awful as Titanic could be judged a better film than LA confidential. I get that Titanic became the highest grossing movie of all time(at that time) but that should have nothing to do with artistic merit. I think that decision by the academy was corrupt and down to politics more than anything else.

While I don't agree that Titanic was an awful movie (always found it quite enjoyable actually), LA Confidential was one of the best movies of the decade. It most certainly was robbed that year.