Years the Film Academy got it wrong

[Rakewell]

What were the years/films in the past that you felt that the Academy Award winner choices were just plain... off?

A year that comes to mind for me is 1994:

Nominees:
Forrest Gump
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Pulp Fiction
Quiz Show
The Shawshank Redemption

Winner:
Forrest Gump

I like Forrest Gump, but seriously: how did that film trump Pulp Fiction?

Sound off, peeps.

 

[Nintendesert]

Forrest Gump was revolutionary at the time. Pulp Fiction is a cult hit but.... the winner should have been the Shawshank Redemption. That's still an awesome and epic movie.

 

[Rakewell]

Forrest Gump was revolutionary at the time. Pulp Fiction is a cult hit but.... the winner should have been the Shawshank Redemption. That's still an awesome and epic movie.

Seriously?!?!

How was FG revolutionary?

 

[Schfifty Five]

What were the years/films in the past that you felt that the Academy Award winner choices were just plain... off?

A year that comes to mind for me is 1994:

Nominees:
Forrest Gump
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Pulp Fiction
Quiz Show
The Shawshank Redemption

Winner:
Forrest Gump

I like Forrest Gump, but seriously: how did that film trump Pulp Fiction?

Sound off, peeps.

I would have picked Shawshank as the winner.

 

[corwin]

Seriously?!?!

How was FG revolutionary?

The integration of Forrest into so many old film clips almost seamlessly, Lt Dan with no legs...and it was just a good story overall...Pulp Fiction was good and a classic but the story wasn't up to the artsy types tastes...I agree though that Shawshank Redemption should have been the winner

 

[CrackRabbit]

Forrest Gump was revolutionary at the time. Pulp Fiction is a cult hit but.... the winner should have been the Shawshank Redemption. That's still an awesome and epic movie.

Agreed 100%.

 

[shortylickens]

Shawshank was the best.

Forrest Gump got the win cuz Tom Hanks plays ball with the Hollywood bigshots and Quentin Tarantino tells them to eat shit.

 

[Anubis]

Shawshank was the best.

Forrest Gump got the win cuz Tom Hanks plays ball with the Hollywood bigshots and Quentin Tarantino tells them to eat shit.

basically this

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

I actively disliked Forrest Gump. I would have given the nod to Pulp Fiction rather easily, despite the fact that I also liked Shawshank.

 

[Away]

2002 for me. Gangs of New York should have won Best Picture over Chicago. Also, Daniel Day-Lewis should have won Best Actor over Adrien Brody.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan
How Green was My Valley over Citizen Kane

and the worst ever

Dances with Wolves over Goodfellas

 

[Imp]

2002:
Chicago - won
Gangs of New York
The Hours
LoTR: Two Towers
Pianist

The fu*k?

2003:
LotR: Return of the King - won
Lost in Translation
Master & Commander
Mystic River
Seabiscuit

LoTR was amazing, but Lost in Translation was just totally something else. I remember talk about how they blew off the first two LoTR movies, so this was a "series acknowledgement".

2005:
Crash - won

Munich was better. No interest in Crash.

 

[DrPizza]

Shawshank Redemption should have beaten Forest Gump. I'd put Pulp Fiction in 3rd behind those two. I hate to say "over-rated" - but Pulp Fiction is more of a cult hit; not a general hit.

And, how in hell didn't Saving Private Ryan win?

 

[Rakewell]

2002 for me. Gangs of New York should have won Best Picture over Chicago. Also, Daniel Day-Lewis should have won Best Actor over Adrien Brody.

Very much this

 

[Anubis]

2008 - hurt locker over Up or bastards
2009 - slumdog over anythning else on the list, Grand Torino not even being nominated

1998 - titanic over good will hunting

 

[Rakewell]

And, how in hell didn't Saving Private Ryan win?

Agreed. Shakespeare in love was a raging piece of shit.

 

[sactoking]

Since 1990 I would say the big errors were:

1996- The English Patient
over Fargo, Jerry Maguire, Shine, and Secrets & Lies
1998- Shakespeare in Love
over Elizabeth, Life is Beautiful, The Thin Red Line, and Saving Private Ryan
2004- Million Dollar Baby
over The Aviator, Finding Neverland, Ray, and Sideways
2009- The Hurt Locker
over too many to list

Though in many cases there would be more except many movies are shunned for nominations because of their genre or general appeal.

 

[Imp]

Forest Gump was, and still is, an "epic". Pulp Fiction is great, but I wouldn't consider it "Best Picture" material that jives with the Oscars' definition of best picture.

Personal piss off is 1999. I finally saw American Beauty recently, and have to say it was damn good... I'm just pissed that Magnolia didn't even get a nod, while the Green Mile and Sixth Sense did.

 

[Printer Bandit]

i wish the general public could vote for these types of awards.

 

[Anubis]

i wish the general public could vote for these types of awards.

the downside to that is the justin biber movie would have prob won BP last year

 

[GagHalfrunt]

1998 - titanic over good will hunting

Wrong.

L.A. Confidential > Good Will Hunting > Titanic

 

[Ns1]

2002:
Chicago - won
Gangs of New York
The Hours
LoTR: Two Towers
Pianist

The fu*k?

2003:
LotR: Return of the King - won
Lost in Translation
Master & Commander
Mystic River
Seabiscuit

LoTR was amazing, but Lost in Translation was just totally something else. I remember talk about how they blew off the first two LoTR movies, so this was a "series acknowledgement".

2005:
Crash - won

Munich was better. No interest in Crash.

Crash was awesome. I've tried watching lost in translation 3 times and I still hate it.

 

[Anubis]

Wrong.

L.A. Confidential > Good Will Hunting > Titanic

we both agree titanic should not have won, and i agree LA Conf was great, i just liked GWH more

 

[Anubis]

lost in translation was awesome. I've tried watching crash 3 times and I still hate it.

fixed that for you

seriously crash was shit

 

[Ns1]

txt

No, I'm pretty sure I got it right. BILL MURRAY YOU BORE THE SHIT OUT OF ME.


(i love art films too, but lost in translation never did and probably never will do it for me)