Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#1Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/16/12 at 9:53pm
What Oscar snubs still make you weep?
Some recent supporting actresses that have killed me-- Mila Kunis in BLACK SWAN and, just last year (in two of the year's best performances) Shailene Woodley in THE DESCENDANTS and Vanessa Redgrave in CORIOLANUS.
If you're talking Oscar wins, I still can't believe Viola Davis doesn't have a gold statue on her mantle after last year's ceremony.
#2Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/16/12 at 9:55pm
Isn't there a thread going thats basically identical to this SAME topic or atleast could be talked about in the same thread?
Updated On: 12/16/12 at 09:55 PM
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#2Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/16/12 at 10:15pm
No oscars for Richard Burton or Peter O Toole
No directing Oscars for Alfred Hitchcock
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Mr Roxy
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#5Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/16/12 at 10:25pm
Victoria Jackson - CASUAL SEX
Robert Davi - SHOWGIRLS
Queen Latifah - TAXI
Tom Arnold - FREDDY'S DEAD - THE FINAL NIGHTMARE
Bernadette Peters - PINK CADILLAC
Sharon Stone - SLIVER
Michael Jordan - SPACE JAM
Whoopi Goldberg - THE ASSOCIATE
Gene Wilder - HAUNTED HONEYMOON
Ben Stiller - MYSTERY MEN
Pamela Reed - KINDERGARTEN COP
Dudley Moore - SANTA CLAUSE: THE MOVIE
#6Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/16/12 at 10:27pmThis is easy for me - Ellen Burstyn in REQUIEM FOR A DREAM loses to Julia Roberts in Erin Brokovich. Absolutely insane.
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#7Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/16/12 at 10:30pmWell Jada Pinkett wasn't even NOMINATED for WOO, so that's a "real" snub.
#8Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/16/12 at 11:03pm
Being nominated but not winning doesn't qualify as a snub. The definition of snub is "to ignore" or "to refuse to acknowledge." A perfect example is Tilda Swinton last year, who was nominated for the major precursors -- Critics Choice, Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA -- and won several critics awards, but then missed out on the ultimate prize.
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Updated On: 12/16/12 at 11:03 PM
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#9Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/16/12 at 11:04pmOr like Estelle Getty in STOP, OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT.
#10Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/16/12 at 11:07pmJordan, as my grandmother used to say, "First time's funny, second time's silly, third time's a spanking."
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#11Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/16/12 at 11:14pm
Sigourney Weaver, THE ICE STORM
James Schamus, THE ICE STORM (Best Adapted Screenplay)
Viggo Mortenson, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
Maria Bello, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE and THE COOLER
Lisa Kudrow, THE OPPOSITE OF SEX
Kristin Scott Thomas, I'VE LOVED YOU SO LONG
Tilda Swinton, I AM LOVE and THE DEEP END
Bill Irwin, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED
Charlize Theron, YOUNG ADULT
Bernadette Peters, PENNIES FROM HEAVEN
John Cameron Mitchell, HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
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Updated On: 12/16/12 at 11:14 PM
#12Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/16/12 at 11:15pmYour grandma wants to spank me? I could be up for that.
#13Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/16/12 at 11:16pmJudy Parfitt for her supporting role in Dolores Claiborne
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#15Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/16/12 at 11:30pmI think Michael Douglas should have been nominated for THE GAME. Fincher should have been nominated for that, as well.
#16Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/17/12 at 1:26am
Charlize Theron for YOUNG ADULT and Tilda Swinton for WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, two very different performances that should have gotten in over crap like ALBERT NOBBS (Did people watch that? Easily one of the worst films of the year).
Totally agree with Mila Kunis in BLACK SWAN, I've seen the movie about five or six times now and it's the kind of performance that gets more and more brilliant the more you watch it. To recognize Natalie Portman without recognizing Mila Kunis was a mistake, one performance wouldn't be as good without the other, that's one of the main points of the movie!
The two big ones that I used to begrudge a lot and still do are performances that I thought should win their year but didn't even get nominated: 1- Naomi Watts in MULHOLLAND DRIVE, probably one of the best performances in contemporary cinema and 2- Dennis Quaid in FAR FROM HEAVEN, it's hard to begrudge the beautiful work that Chris Cooper did in ADAPTATION (the winner the year Quaid was eligible) but God, was Quaid amazing in what's considered sort of a comeback role for him, a huge departure from anything he had done, and he was so good in every way.
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#17Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/17/12 at 1:28amI'm still angry that Oprah wasn't nominated for BELOVED. Albert Brooks should have been nominated last year for DRIVE.
#18Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/17/12 at 1:29amI still think BELOVED is one of the worst movies to be made since history was born.
#19Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/17/12 at 1:33amI'll give you that by like Denzel in TRAINING DAY I don't think a film needs to be Oscar worthy for the performance to be Oscar worthy.
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#20Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/17/12 at 2:35am
I mentioned it in another thread, but this is more specific to it so I'll mention it again.
Joan Allen for Upside of Anger. A travesty that she did not receive a nomination.
#21Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/17/12 at 4:28amI'm still shocked that Anne Hathaway did not win for RACHEL GETTING MARRIED or that Hailie Steinfeld in TRUE GRIT lost to Helena Bonham Carter in THE KING'S SPEECH. Mind you, it is the ONLY time I have ever liked Carter on screen, but Steinfeld was remarkable and mature beyond her years.
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#22Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/17/12 at 4:39amBrave, Hailee Steinfeld lost to Melissa Leo in THE FIGHTER, not Carter. I thought Steinfeld should have won but it'd have been unfair since her performance was in no way whatsoever a supporting performance. I mean, the story is told from her point of view, it's about her journey, it begins and ends with her, she's in every single scene of the movie; clearly, she should have been nominated in the lead category, still she wouldn't have been the only person to win supporting for a lead performance. Steinfeld was so good in that movie though, a pity they went for the loud performance Melissa Leo gave.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#23Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/17/12 at 6:32am
Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk About Kevin.
Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#24Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs
Posted: 12/17/12 at 8:53amTo me, a film not winning an Oscar is more of an honor, because Oscars reward films of such instant gratification that there is almost no reason to watch them again. The best films often are ignored when they come out and then grow on people over time like a fungus.
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