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[Film] The greatest ever Oscar injustices ?



Uncle Spielberg

Uncle Spielberg

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With the nominations today what where the great ever miscarriages ? For me

1. Ralph Fiennes in schindler's list losing to Tommy Lee Jones in the fugative for best actor
2. Saving Private Ryan losing best picture to Shakespeare in Love
3. Alfred Hitchcock never winning a best director Oscar
4. Amy Adams not being nominated for Arrival
 
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Tom Hark Preston Park

Tom Hark Preston Park

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Uncle Spielberg said:
With the nominations today what where the great ever miscarriages ? For me

1. Ralph Fiennes in schindler's list losing to Tommy Lee Jones in the fugative
2. Saving Private Ryan losing best picture to Shakespeare in Love
3. Alfred Hitchcock never winning a best director Oscar
4. Amy Adams not being nominated for Arrival
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Desert Orchid not winning Lifetime Achievement Award for Best Horse
 




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Bry Nylon said:
Three Oscar nominations for Madness of King George III but not a sniff for previous two movies :shrug:
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The Madness of George 111 was renamed the madness of King George in the USA, a bit like Philosopher's stone was renamed sorcerers stone as it was deemed that the yanks wouldn't understand the title properly.
I find it alarming that the supposed best nation on earth isn't even trusted by Film Studios to understand basic English.
 




Stato

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Randy Newman's songs from Toy Story and Toy Story 2: "You've Got A Friend In Me', and 'When She Loved Me' both lost! The first to some dirge from Pocahontas and then to Phil Collins!*

* - Collins awful song from Tarzan also beat 'Blame Canada' from 'South Park - Bigger, Longer and Uncut'. (Presumably they couldn't nominate 'Kyle's Mom's a B*tch' as having already been in the TV series, it wasn't an original song).
 


Stato

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nickbrighton said:
The Madness of George 111 was renamed the madness of King George in the USA, a bit like Philosopher's stone was renamed sorcerers stone as it was deemed that the yanks wouldn't understand the title properly.
I find it alarming that the supposed best nation on earth isn't even trusted by Film Studios to understand basic English.
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Yes. The story was that if they called it 'The Madness of King George III' people might think it was a sequel and that they hadn't seen the first two.
 


jcdenton08

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Without going too far O/T, I used to manage a video games shop and the amount of people - not just kids - asking for “Grand Theft Auto Eye-Vee (IV) or Vee (V) was absolutely shocking.
 






ozzygull

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Stato said:
Randy Newman's songs from Toy Story and Toy Story 2: "You've Got A Friend In Me', and 'When She Loved Me' both lost! The first to some dirge from Pocahontas and then to Phil Collins!*

* - Collins awful song from Tarzan also beat 'Blame Canada' from 'South Park - Bigger, Longer and Uncut'. (Presumably they couldn't nominate 'Kyle's Mom's a B*tch' as having already been in the TV series, it wasn't an original song).
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Phil Collins was nominated three times for an Oscar. He was not allowed to perform his own son "Against All odds" in 1983 as they didn't think he was famous enough and instead got Ann Reinking to do a dance routine and lip sync it. So I think he's had the biggest injustice.

Oh and Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You" won that year, so it get worse.
 


Bry Nylon

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jcdenton08 said:
I used to manage a video games shop and the amount of people - not just kids - asking for “Grand Theft Auto Eye-Vee (IV) or Vee (V) was absolutely shocking.
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Back in the day, I went into my local Blockbuster and asked if I could rent Batman Forever.

Chap behind the counter said, "No, you have to return it by next Tuesday."
 




jcdenton08

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Bry Nylon said:
Back in the day, I went into my local Blockbuster and asked if I could rent Batman Forever.

Chap behind the counter said, "No, you have to return it by next Tuesday."
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There was a bit of confusion there, I think, with the shop assistant believing you were asking to rent a movie called Batman, but keep the rental forever. You should’ve explained that you were in fact looking to complete a standard rental of the movie Batman Forever, and explained this was the title of the movie. I’m sure with the movie being a financial success, they would’ve quickly learned from their mistake and had a chuckle at the confusion.

It’s funny how common these types of misunderstandings seem to be amongst NSC users.
 


Stato

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ozzygull said:
Phil Collins was nominated three times for an Oscar. He was not allowed to perform his own son "Against All odds" in 1983 as they didn't think he was famous enough and instead got Ann Reinking to do a dance routine and lip sync it. So I think he's had the biggest injustice.

Oh and Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You" won that year, so it get worse.
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For me "I Just Called To Say I Love You" is the nadir of Stevie Wonder's chart career. It's still not as terrible as "Against All Odds".
 


Muzzman

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Burt Reynolds should have had Best Supporting Actor for Boogie Nights over Robin Williams for Good Will Hunting.
 






Stato

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In 1994 'Pulp Fiction', 'The Shawshank Redemption' and 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' were all nominated for best picture. They all lost to 'Forrest Gump'. Shoddy film, rip off of Zelig with hacky references to other, better films, but the sort of self agrandising tod that America laps up.
 




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Stato said:
In 1994 'Pulp Fiction', 'The Shawshank Redemption' and 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' were all nominated for best picture. They all lost to 'Forrest Gump'. Shoddy film, rip off of Zelig with hacky references to other, better films, but the sort of self agrandising tod that America laps up.
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'Quiz Show' was also nominated and IMO deserved to win and 'Forrest Gump' was the weakest of the five nominated. In the same decade, 'LA Confidential' lost to 'Titanic,' and 'Fargo' to 'The English Patient.'
 






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cheshunt seagull

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Stato said:
In 1994 'Pulp Fiction', 'The Shawshank Redemption' and 'Four Weddings and a Funeral' were all nominated for best picture. They all lost to 'Forrest Gump'. Shoddy film, rip off of Zelig with hacky references to other, better films, but the sort of self agrandising tod that America laps up.
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I absolutely loathe Forrest Gump. The idea that dumbed down folksy bollocks is profound and honest went on to poison a lot of public life in the USA. The film is the total opposite of Being There which parodies this nonsense.
 


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