Oscars 2006

[Tooting Gull]

<Insert name of any film made in 1994 - except perhaps "Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow"> losing out to "Forrest Gump".

Abso-bloody-lutely. Shawshank and Pulp Fiction that year.

 

[Brixtaan]

Right, let's up the ante on this thread which apart from Albion Dan is not really getting to the nub of it at all.

Biggest Oscar travesties:

Raging Bull losing out to Ordinary People (1981). Staggering decision, OP was good, RB was great.

That came a year after Apocalypse Now lost out to Kramer vs Kramer, another massive but typical Academy cop-out.

Personally I thought Goodfellas was a miles better film than Dances with Wolves in 1991, and Al Pacino never got the Oscar for Godfather II which was a disgrace.

And Rocky - good film as it is - should never have won an Oscar especially in the same year as All The President's men and Taxi Driver.


Of this year's crop Reese Witherspoon deserved her gong, she's superb in Walk The Line.

I had no idea.Haven't seen Ordinary People but the other travesties beggar belief.