Academy Award disgrace!!!

The tony award disgrace thread made me want to make one for the Academy Awards. One that I can think of right now is Bill Murray losing to Sean Penn last year. Sean Penn hadn't even attended a cermony until that point(and he had been nominated 3 times before!!!). Anyways, I'd give it to Bill Murray in a heartbeat.

Sean Penn deserved that award whether he showed up or not !!!!

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It shows that he doesn't give a flip about it, which I think means something....at least it should

Updated On: 2/5/05 at 09:10 PM

Not at all. Oscar= awarded for acting ability in a role. And I'm glad they maintained that in the case of Mr. Penn.

The Oscar should have everything to do with acting.....but it doesn't

also, alfred molina for frida

Ellen Burstyn in "Requiem for a Dream" was twenty times better than Julia Roberts.

That is true, but I didn't post the Laura Linney thread. I love Laura, but you have to give credit where credit is due. Ellen's work is chillingly powerful.

How id Ed Harris' riveting portrayal of Jackson Pollock lose to Russell Crowe's mediocre at least performance in "Gladiator"?

Another robbery:

Liam Neeson not nominated for "Kinsey".

Ian McKellen not winning for Lord of the Rings

I thought Nicole Kidman in THE HOURS was absolutely brilliantly amazing, and definitely should have won, I can't believe people don't think so.

Not a disgrace, but I would have liked to see THE HOURS win best picture over CHICAGO.

Are you serious about THE SIXTH SENSE deserving more than AMERICAN BEAUTY? AMERICAN BEAUTY is one of the absolute greatest movies ever made, and deserved even more than it won.

And Sean Penn for MYSTIC RIVER? Absolutey!!!! He was brilliant in it, and it was a GREAT movie. I hated LOST IN TRANSLATION, and thought Bill Murray was the same in that movie as is is in everything else he ever does. He's even all those characters on talk shows - he never changes.

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Ian McKellan not winning for Lord of the Rings.
Cate Blanchett not winning for Elizabeth.
Chicago winning best picture I mean it was a good movie but not the best picture of the year.
Martin Scorsese not winning a Oscar yet.
Apollo 13 not winning best picture.

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I'm with Monku on Nicole and The Hours.

And, Melissa, I think Shoreh Aghdashloo as great an actress as Renee, so I couldn't say either one more deserving than the other :)

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