Academy Award disgrace!!! — Page 2

I go for drama over comedy anyday, so I would love liked to see Shoreh win as well. She was heartbreaking.

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"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."

Yes, I am. I did not like "American Beauty" and I loved "The Sixth Sense."

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JID - you are, and always have been, an extreme exception to the rule on this site.

Wow. There's so many. But, here's just some off the TOMH (last names only).

Zellweger over Hunter or Clarkson (2003)
Penn over Murray (2003)
Kidman over Moore (2002)
Brody over Day-Lewis (2002)
Zeta-Jones over Streep (2002)
Berry over Kidman (2001)
Connelly over Tomei (2001)
Broadbent over McKellen (2001)
Crowe over Hanks or Rush (2000)
Del Toro over Phoenix (2000)
Gay Harden over McDormand (2000)
Roberts over Burstyn (2000)
Caine over Osment (1999)
Benigni over Norton (199
Dench over Bates (199
Basinger over Moore (1997)
Binoche over Allen (1996)
Landau over Jackson (1994)

Some older ones

Cher over Close (1987)
Holliday over Davis (1950)
Wayne over Hoffman (1969)
Taylor over MacLaine (1960)
Minelli over Tyson (1972)
Grey over Caan (1972)
Niven over Newman (1958
March over Stewart (1946)
Garson over Davis (1943)
Duke over Lansbury (1962)
Jones over Bergman (1942)
Hepburn over Bancroft (1967)
Hepburn over Streep (1981)
Steiger over Tracey (1967)
O'Neal over Blair (1973)

Updated On: 2/6/05 at 02:02 AM

Okay I have a few (besides some mentioned above I agree with, such as Russell Crowe winning -ugh!):

*Jennifer Connely beating both Helen Mirren AND Maggie Smith....Simply unbelieveable.
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*Maureen O'Hara not even being nominated for THE QUIET MAN or ONLY THE LONELY.

*Deborah Kerr losing every single one of her 6 nominations (She should have won for THE SUNDOWNERS instead of Elizabeth Taylor, who only won cause they thought she was dying)

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Evelyn - frankly, the only thing I remember from Gosford is Maggie Smith's character saying, "Yummy, yummy, yummy" - which we quote frequently.

Are you serious? "Gosford Park" is a MASTERPIECE. I was shocked when Robert Altman lost the best director award to Ron Howard, and that such a mediocare movie such as "A Beautiful Mind" beat such genius filmmaking as "Gosford Park". SHOKCED.

And Helen Mirren should have gotten that award for her final scene alone. It was heartbreaking.

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see now that is a disgrace, Ian McKellen not winning an oscar for LOTR. He really deserved to win that one. I was even more pissed off when Sean Astin was robbed of his supporting actor nomination. I mean, in that scene when Samwise stabbed that huge spider (shudders) and while he stayed by Frodo's side, those are the reasons that Sean should have been nominated for best supporting actor.

"Are you serious?"

Oh, dear god no! I was lying!

Okay- everyone's entitled to an opinion. :)

It's just weird, because I really enjoyed this movie (In fact, I watched it again the other night- I own the DVD), and I thought it should have gotten more accolades than it did.

And don't get me wrong, I adore Dame Maggie...But out of the two, I wanted Dame Helen to win.

And, DG, no comments about Maureen O'Hara or Deborah Kerr? Do you agree?

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Of course not.

That piece of crap GLADIATOR winning best picture.

And along with it: Russell Crowe winning Best Actor for that piece of crap GLADIATOR when he really deserved it the year before for THE INSIDER.

Russell Crowe NOT winning for A BEAUTIFUL MIND because he won it the year before for that piece of crap GLADIATOR.

I guess you are only allowed to win two years in a row if your name is Tom Hanks.

DG, I couldn't agree more (about O'Hara). Remind me to tell you sometime how I got to speak to her on the phone AND got two personally autographed photos from her. As well as being gorgeous,she's also an absolute sweetheart!

And yeah, you got a point about Kerr/Taylor/MacLaine.... But I think it's just a shame Deborah Kerr didn't win at least one award. Can you believe she lost for "From Here To Eternity"???

Also, Glenda Jackson winning over Barbra Streisand in "The Way We Were". What WAS that?

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