The Award Snub thread

Since the Award Snub page won't allow you to voice your opinon about Award Snub since it's a preference of personal opinon, I decided it be nice to make a thread where you list films that you feel that should have been nominated and / or won. This also counts for other categories, like Best Actor, Best Actress & Best Screenplay.

Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon were both amazing and were nominated the same year but lost to How Green Was My Valley (which isn't actually a bad movie just not as good as Citizen Kane)

Kane was especially Snubbed every time the film was mention The crowed booed and despite being nominated nine times only won best Screenplay

edited 6th Mar '11 9:56:25 AM by faradayangel

Yeah, it's irionic how things work out. People often forget that Citzen Kane got a mixed reception during it's release, while it's flat-out subjected to Hype Averision and Hype Backlash due to all the praise it recicived.

Life's funny like that.

I felt that Liam Neeson should have won for Schindlers List, and that Tom Hanks won only because of the subject matter.

edited 6th Mar '11 10:19:43 AM by chreen

Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring should have won Best Picture and Best Director over A Beautiful Mind; it was really the best movie of the trilogy.

Up should have won Best Picture last year. (I've got nothing against The Hurt Locker, it was a very well-made movie, but it lacked emotional resonance; it's the kind of movie you appreciate in a detached sort of way rather than being drawn into.)

Also this year - Hailee Steinfeld should have won Best Supporting Actress.

Agreed on Steinfeld. Melissa Leo's acting in The Fighter was extremely over-the-top and played like a bad retread of Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side. It was more Razzie worthy than Oscar worthy.

Here are some from this year's awards alone:

• Paul Giamatti not getting a Best Actor nomination for Barney's Version (instead, Jesse Eisenberg got a nomination).
• Julianne Moore not getting a Best Actress or Best Supporting Actress nomination for The Kids Are All Right (Paramount choosing to promote Steinfeld for Supporting Actress instead of Actress led to a screwup that cheated Moore out of a sure nomination and gave box office poison Nicole Kidman a nomination for a little-seen flop).
• 127 Hours not winning a single Oscar.
• Inception beating True Grit for Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins still hasn't won an Oscar and that was probably his best chance, meanwhile Inception's look benefited more from its visual effects than cinematography).
• Tron Legacy not being nominated for Visual Effects.
• Legend of the Guardians not being nominated for Best Original Score (instead, three Hans Zimmer-produced scores get nominated).
• Tangled not being nominated for Best Animated Feature.
• The King's Speech losing Costume Design to Alice in Wonderland.
• 127 Hours not being nominated for Best Cinematography (but The Social Network was).

Also, the fact that 127 Hours and True Grit won nothing but Alice in Wonderland and The Wolfman somehow did.

David Fincher not winning best director for the Social Network. Tom Hopper hasn't been directing as long as David Fincher and Tom Hopper didn't win best director at the BAFTA's. His own country didn't give him best director. That's saying something. His only previous movie experience before The King's Speech was That Damned United. David Fincher has Seven and Fight club and others as well. This troper was estatic that The King's Speech won best picture because I was rooting for both the social network and kings speech, but come on really?

Giving Fincher the Oscar for The Social Network would have been like if Scorsese had won it for The Aviator. It would have been a career Oscar and not one for his best work (Fincher himself has even said The Social Network is one of his lesser films).

Well Scorsese did win the Oscar for one of his lesser films The Departed remember that. So he did receive a career Oscar. All of his new films are the lesser films of his younger days of being a director. And I don't think Fincher is gonna win with the American remake of the Dragon Tattoo. So does that mean Tom Hooper's best work is always gonna be The King's Speech to people? That's a bit of a depressing thought actually.

edited 6th Mar '11 5:45:44 PM by femaledavinci

Alice in Wonderland shouldn't have won best Art Direction. I mean all the sets are copied off something else. The Red Queen's castle is basically an expy of Disney castle except red. Harry Potter had better art direction.

Best Picture ones (1990-2009):

• 2009: An Education and The Blind Side nominated over A Single Man and Crazy Heart (or Star Trek or Where The Wild Things Are).
• 2008: The Reader nominated over Wall-E (or The Dark Knight or The Wrestler or Gran Torino).
• 2007: Juno, Atonement and Michael Clayton (the last is a good movie, but not Oscar worthy) nominated over Gone Baby Gone, Into The Wild and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (or Ratatouille).
• 2005: Crash beating Brokeback Mountain.
• 2004: Finding Neverland (good movie but there were much better movies that year) nominated over Hotel Rwanda.
• 2003: Return of the King beating Mystic River.
• 2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (a boring movie that is only needed to understand Return of the King) and The Hours nominated over Far From Heaven and Bowling For Columbine (or About Schmidt, Frida or Road to Perdition).
• 2001: A Beautiful Mind beating Fellowship of the Ring.
• 2000: Erin Brockovich and Chocolat (the latter isn't bad but not Oscar-worthy) nominated over Requiem for a Dream and Quills (or Chicken Run or O Brother Where Art Thou).
• 1999: The Sixth Sense nominated over Fight Club (or Angela's Ashes or The Matrix).
• 1998: Shakespeare in Love nominated over American History X (or The Big Lebowski) and beating Saving Private Ryan.
• 1997: As Good As It Gets nominated over Jackie Brown. Titanic beating L.A. Confidential.
• 1996: Jerry Maguire nominated over Sling Blade. The English Patient beating Fargo.
• 1995: Il Postino nominated over The Usual Suspects.
• 1994: Forrest Gump beating Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption.
• 1990: Dances with Wolves nominated over Cinema Paradiso and beating Goodfellas.

Up and WALL-E not WINNING.

@ Buscemi I agree with most of your points, especially Gran Torino and The Dark Knight not being nominated in 2008. I also thought out of The Lord Of The Rings Fellowship should have won instead Return of the King (which was too overindulgent), though I know many people wanted to give the award when the trilogy's run was over.

Juno was just not a good movie and shouldn't have been nominated.

And yeah, Liam Neeson totally should have been nominated for Schindlers List.

Animation-related snubs:

MGM's Peace on Earth (1939) losing to Disney's remake of The Ugly Duckling. MGM's rather boring short "The Milky Way" (1940) winning almost seemed like a make-up award. Of course, in turn they ended up snubbing WB's "A Wild Hare" and Hanna & Barbara's "Puss Gets the Boot".

Columbia's emotional "The Little Match Girl" (1937) losing to Disney's snoozer "The Old Mill".

"Day and Night" losing Best Animated Short this year. It was the most creative short of 2010, and of course it loses out to the artsy farts award bait short.

Also, I'm inclined to agree with the write-up at Cartoon Brew that the Academy having Shirley Temple present 7 joke Oscars to Walt Disney for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" was a huge slap in the face.

Eh, I'm glad that Day and Night lost. Worst Pixar short in years (and obvious Award Bait, to boot), put alongside one of the best Pixar films ever.

I think 12 Angry Men should have won at least one of its awards. Granted I've never watched Bridge on the River Kwai. It's probably one of the best movies to not win any Oscars.

The Manchurian Candidate (1962 version) should have at least been nominated for Best Picture/Director.

I'm still not entirely clear on the full reasons why The Godfather's score was disqualified, maybe they've changed the rules since then I dunno. Sequels reuse themes and motifs all the time, hell composers reuse their own stuff from film to film (you can hear very similar stuff in a lot of movies John Williams has composed for example). Add on top of this that it should have won Best Director as well. I'd throw in a nod for Best Cinematography and one of it's THREE nominees should have won best supporting actor, I still think Pacino was better in this than in Part II but I digress.

And here's another: Little Shop of Horror's "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space" losing best song to a cheesy, generic 80's ballad.

Toy Story 3 winning best original song over "If I Rise" from 127 Hours. Sorry gang, I like TS3 and I like Randy Newman, actually. But, "We Belong Together" felt too much like his other works and "You've Got a Friend in Me" (which I love) and 127 Hours's song was just better.

In a Lonely Place and/or Harvey not getting nominated over Father of the Bride. It's not a bad film, it's just that those two had better qualities, and In a Lonely Place is probably one of Bogart's best (but, unfortunately, underrated) films. But, that was 1950, so it probably doesn't matter since All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard were duking it out and I still can't decided which one I thought was more worthy.

Dances with Wolves winning over Goodfellas. I haven't seen The Godfather, but DWW was 3 hours of unabashed, dull oscar bait (I will say, I don't think all films that get this unfortunate label are bad, but some, uglh). At least Avatar had the decency to make things interesting with special effects and a new, different planet, though it had the same story and character problems.

Regardless of its quality, Transformers definitely deserved the Special Effects awards in its first installment.

Pan's Labyrinth not winning best foreign language film Oscar. Okay it won for three others, but not foreign language. A part of me blames the Acadamy's opinion on fantasy, but Pan's Labyrinth ever since it debuted has been on the greatest movies of all time lists. Roger Ebert put it in his great movies collection and its the newest movie in there.

edited 7th Mar '11 1:17:44 PM by femaledavinci

Also 500 Days of Summer not being nominated for best screenplay. The Hurt Lockers Screenplay wasn't as good as 500 days was.

I think Black Book not being nominated for Best Foreign Language Film was a bigger snub than Pan's Labyrinth not winning. That was Paul Verhoeven back to form after the terrible Hollow Man.

Restrepo not getting best documentary irked me. A lot. The people that died in that documentary? THEY DIED. The fact that they went and made a documentary about a controversial war without it not only being almost completely unbiased and genuine is a testament to their professionalism and skill.

Can we do other awards and not just Oscars? Cuz if so:

* 1989: Judas Preist wins Best Metal Performance over METALLICA. * 2001: Steely Dan wins Best Album over Radiohead's Kid A and Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP. * 2011: Janelle Monáe's The ArchAndroid and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy [[spoiler:not even being nominated.

IGNORE, I'M A MORON.

edited 7th Mar '11 7:15:55 PM by OurGLORIOUSLeader

About Pan's labyrinth: While I liked Pan's Labyrinth I didn't love it as much as some people and the movie that actually won the best foreign language oscar, das leben der anderen, was a better movie in my opinion. At the time at lot of people were angry about Pan not winning and complaining without having actually seen Das leben der anderen. Now, disagreement is fine, but it's a little annoying when they haven't even seen the winner.

Stanley Kubrick never getting any academy award for anything outside of special effects. 2001, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon and Full Metal Jacket were all nominated for awards, but lost out.

While the oscars are pretty meaningless to non-english directors, since it is mostly based on american/british movies (which is OK, since it's an american award show) the fact that Kurosawa was nominated for best director for Ran and was beaten by Out of africa (not that this wasn't a good movie and well-directed) was definitely a snub as far as I am concerned.

edited 8th Mar '11 2:59:23 AM by Mathias

1990- Driving Miss Daisy winning and Do The Right Thing wasn't even nominated.

how about how rigged the Annie Awards this year were? How To Train Your Dragon won from EVERY movie category. It was a good movie, but it wasn't good enough to win EVERYTHING!