Discussion: Biggest Oscar Snubs? - Page 3

Price of Fame

The biggest actual shock is definitely BInoche beating Bacall.

There was enough talk of actual big names in the industry that were refusing to vote for or even watch BBM to see its loss coming.

fridayteenage

Cate?

ariesjow

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Cate?

kgeezy310

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I agree with the ones I quote so ****ing much. Especially the Brokeback Mountain, Judy Garland, Cate Blanchett, Whoopi Goldberg, and Bette Davis snubs. Alicia's placement in Supporting was definitely category fraud, but since she was placed in there out of the nominees she definitely deserved it. Eddie Murphy wasn't that great in Dreamgirls. Everyone knows Oscars aren't the best judge of music in terms of songs, so I didn't include those. A lot of the other snubs are mostly due to all of the politics and narratives of the award season, so frankly I don't really care about snubs that happen because of it unless an especially good performance/movie is snubbed which are the ones I quoted from you.

What do you think about Oprah in Beloved? Personally, I think she should've gotten the Oscar for it. Her performance was just mesmerizing. A lot of people gave her flack for her honorary Oscar, but I think it was deserved especially after he amazing performances.

I've never seen it! I've heard that it's good, but it's one of those that I just haven't had the time to watch yet. I'll definitely be sure to give it a watch and see if i agree

Achilles.

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Oh I agree. There was no way they were gonna give her a 3rd so soon after her second, especially not for a movie that turned AMPAS off. They weren't looking to give Carol any awards.

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She should, though. To the best of my knowledge, she's still tied to the Aaron Sorkin-penned Lucille Ball biopic. So, she may get a third Oscar sooner than we think.

The number of years between their first Oscar win and their third Oscar win:

Katherine Hepburn (35 years) / (48 years between her first and fourth)
Meryl Streep (32 years)
Ingrid Bergman (30 years)
Daniel Day-Lewis (23 years)
Jack Nicholson (22 years)
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Walter Brennan (4 years)

Day-Lewis and Streep will probably get their fourth faster than Hepburn did. It's hard to imagine neither of them ever winning again, so it feels safe to assume that they will get a fourth.

An incomplete list of living actors with two Oscars (years they won / number of years since their first):

Maggie Smith (69, 78) / 57 yrs
Jane Fonda (71, 78) / 45 yrs
Sally Field (79, 84) / 37 yrs
Jessica Lange (82, 94) / 34 yrs
Jodie Foster (88, 91) / 28 yrs
Hillary Swank (99, 04) / 17 yrs
Cate Blanchett (04, 13) / 12 yrs

No woman has ever won her third Oscar less than thirty years after winning her first, but if anyone in film has the chance to change that it's definitely Cate Blanchett. I really think she'll do it. I can't really imagine her having a twenty year dry spell.

She's my absolute favorite actress (along with Maggie Smith), so I hope she does it!

As for the men...

Robert De Niro (74, 80) / 42 yrs
Dustin Hoffman (79, 88) / 37 yrs
Michael Caine (86, 99) / 30 yrs
Denzel Washington (89, 01) / 27 yrs
Tom Hanks (93, 94) / 23 yrs
Kevin Spacey (95, 99) / 21 yrs
Sean Penn (03, 08) / 13 yrs
Christoph Waltz (09, 12) / 7 yrs

Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington are both comfortably in the 20 year range that Day-Lewis and Nicholson had between their first and third, but if I had to guess I'd say Denzel will get his third before Tom (assuming either ever get a third). Tom Hanks has starred in something like 6 Best Picture nominees this century without getting an acting nomination, which doesn't really bode well for him. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that he won his Oscars back-to-back...?

wehan6

Lauren Bacall losing was a mess because she was near death so that was literally her last change

Elizabeth Taylor should've won Best Actress for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1958 so them awarding her for Butterfield 8 in 1960 when she wasn't the best that year was just the right thing to do

Kamren

Am I the only one who thinks Katharine Hepburn was entirely overrated as an actress? She virtually played the same character in almost all of her films.

But I have the same feelings towards most of the Golden Age actors. I think in general acting is much more varied and deeper now with the way films have changed because acting back then seemed to cartoonish, dramatic, and over the top because they had to compensate with the limits of filmmaking.

fridayteenage

Katheryn just sucks. Audrey and Bette and Vivien are amazing and in the T5/T10 ever though.

Ghost

Omg, there are literally so many

the Academy does so many wrong choices...

- Reds not winning BP
- Nicholson not being nominated for Shining
- Katharine Hepburn winning for Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?
- Gwyneth winning over any other nominee
- Ellen Burstyn not winning in 2001 (she deserves more than one Oscar, she's one of the best actresses ever). Julia was outstanding anyway and she won everything that year thanks to her charisma so I'm not mad.
- Denzel winning for Training Day (I love him so much but just no)
- Halle Berry winning in 2002. I think she was great, but there were two more deserving performances, and those are Sissy Spacek's and Judi Dench's (Judi deserves more than one Oscar, and the one she has shouldn't be for her least deserving out of her 7 nominations)
- Eddie Murphy being nominated for Dreamgirls
- Viola not winning for The Help (I mean, Meryl was great but so predictable)
- MARION COTILLARD NOT BEING NOMINATED FOR RUST AND BONE - Thi is the one I'm the most mad for
- Brie Larson not being nominated for Short Term 12 in 2014
- Gaga not winning (Lord knows who let that Sam Smith became an Academy Award winning artist)
- Glenn Close being Oscar-less
- Joan Allen being Oscar-less (she was nominated only 3 times, but they had to give her one on one of the first two nominations)
- The numerous category frauds (I mean, Rooney Mara REALLY had to go lead for Carol and replace Lawrence...)

These are just the first ones that come to mind

ariesjow

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Omg, there are literally so many

the Academy does so many wrong choices...

- Joan Allen being Oscar-less (she was nominated only 3 times, but they had to give her one on one of the first two nominations)

These are just the first ones that come to mind

I'm still peeved that Joan Allen didn't get nominated for The Upside of Anger especially in such a weak year for Best Actress. That was the year Reese Witherspoon won for Walk the Line. I preferred Allen to Witherspoon tbh.

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Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington are both comfortably in the 20 year range that Day-Lewis and Nicholson had between their first and third, but if I had to guess I'd say Denzel will get his third before Tom (assuming either ever get a third). Tom Hanks has starred in something like 6 Best Picture nominees this century without getting an acting nomination, which doesn't really bode well for him. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that he won his Oscars back-to-back...?

Tom was screwed out of a nom for Captain Phillips which was one of his very best performances. It was a tough Best Actor category that year, but I would have put him in over Bale.

kyris89

Nicole Kidman should get the oscar for best actress in Moulin Rouge!

Miracle

Us Littlemonsters don't talk about it...but I have one in mind

Ghost

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I'm still peeved that Joan Allen didn't get nominated for The Upside of Anger especially in such a weak year for Best Actress. That was the year Reese Witherspoon won for Walk the Line. I preferred Allen to Witherspoon tbh.

Nnn they had The Upside of Anger on TV last night here in my country and I missed it