Your Most Begrudged Oscar Snubs

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.

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No oscars for Richard Burton or Peter O Toole

No directing Oscars for Alfred Hitchcock

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Updated On: 12/16/12 at 10:15 PM

This is easy for me - Ellen Burstyn in REQUIEM FOR A DREAM loses to Julia Roberts in Erin Brokovich. Absolutely insane.

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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

Jordan, as my grandmother used to say, "First time's funny, second time's silly, third time's a spanking."

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Your grandma wants to spank me? I could be up for that.

Oooooooooooh good one!!

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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I still think BELOVED is one of the worst movies to be made since history was born.

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.

Brave, 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.

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To 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.