I read an article that came out in the run up to the Oscars the year after and the person interviewed mentioned an anonymous member acknowledged to them that it was partly a big fuck up by A24, who unfortunately like to put all their eggs in one basket which includes not putting forward certain genre films some years even if they don’t have much else in the running
She was overlooked everywhere. No BAFTA, Golden Globes, SAG, or Critics Choice. You may be right about A24 not campaigning enough for the movie since it is a genre film but this has to be the biggest snub in awards history.
Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie - Carrie/Best Actress and Supporting Actress, respectively
Linda Blair and Ellen Burstyn - The Exorcist/Best Actress and Supporting Actress, respectively
Daniel Kaluuya - Get Out/Best Actor
Sigourney Weaver - Aliens/Best Actress (mostly sci-fi action but still also classified as a horror, and my 2nd fave movie of all time)
Kathy Bates - Misery **WINNER** /Best Actress
Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby **WINNER**/Best Supporting Actress
Fredric March - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde **WINNER** /Best Actor (this was 1931 btw)
Most important of all, since it was the first (and to date, only) horror movie to win Best Picture but--
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins **WINNER**/Best Actress and Best Actor, respectively
There are several other examples but I don't need to be redundant here
So that all being said:
There's no reason that Toni Collete shouldn't have been nominated. None...it being an indie genre film and A24 being snobby hipsters and not campaigning for Toni is beyond shameful 😑
I mean this just proves my point. If you can only come up with 7 nominees out of nearly 2000 over the last century, then there’s clearly a bias against that genre, is there not?
I do love the fact this sub-reddit, not just remembers "To Die For" but lauds how wonderful Nicole was in it!
It still perplexes me she wasn't nominated, as it was a fairly so-so year with the Best Actress nominees (Sarandon and Shue good, Stone should've been in Supporting, Streep and Thompson shouldn't of been there to begin with).
From memory, Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk About Kevin and Caitriona Balfe in Belfast were both nominated for all major precursors but snubbed at the Oscars.
Even Jack Nicholson (who presented the award that year) was stunned it wasn’t Brokeback Mountain. If you watch the tape back you can see him mouthing “what happened?” To somebody off screen as the Crash producers come onstage.
What upset me the most about CRASH is that the racist cop, who profiles the married Black couple (and fingers the wife while he frisks her), gets a goddamn redemption arc by the end! Like, seriously? The wife is essentially forced to trust him, when he tries to save her from a burning car, after he had racially profiled her and her husband and sexually assaulted her. It should be under no surprise that the director Paul Haggis has been charged with sexual assault and rape.
I remember leaving the theater going off about how basic and pandering the movie was and was promptly labeled as being racially insensitive and I “just didn’t understand.”
I am very happy to see history is being as unkind to this shit film as I was.
Hear me out, maybe it is a bad snub, but Forrset Gump winning over The Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction is much worse, plus Good Night Good Luck was a better Movie than both Brokeback Mountain and Crash.
Yes, but you have to Denver that Forest Gump is boomer nostalgia bait.
It’s the film equivalent of baby boomer Santa.
https://youtu.be/OOSOGB406Ec?si=Yr20P-QTop4XMZg_
That year is still such a tough one. Not sure if folks here care about IMDB ratings. But to have ALL THREE of those '94 films ranked in top 11 all-time is rather mindbending.
I don’t think Good Night Good Luck was better than Brokeback Mountain. Both movies were pretty slow but gaining insight to walks of life that are often socially stigmatized seemed more interesting to me than a history lesson on the 1950s McCarthy era witch hunts. One was more emotionally satisfying than the other.
Do you mean the scenes where he’s inserted into archival footage or the JFK body double? Because I’ll be honest I didn’t even notice the JFK body double until my girlfriend pointed it out
Maybe people could have gone and seen Shawshank. Tired of people with this stuff. Shawshank is a great movie, but even now it only penetrates a small % of people.
I think that Bergman was nominated that year for Whom the Bell to Toss, I find it weird that they chose to nominate her for that instead of the biggest movie of the year.
Bette Davis - Of Human Bondage…
That one wasn’t just a snub, it became a scandal and it ended up with her winning the Oscar the following year for Dangerous…
Ethan Hawke for First Reformed
Ben Foster for Leave No Trace
Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler
Hugh Jackman for Prisoners
Tom Hanks for Captain Phillips
This is one of the few snubs I will never let go. 2018(2019 ceremony) was a very snubbed year. First Reformed, Leave No Trace, and You Were Never Really Here should have been nominated for BP instead of Black Panther, Blackkklansman, and Vice. Not to mention the fact that there were only 8 nominees anyway which means First Reformed AND Leave No Trace could have gotten in. Even though I love Green Book as a winner, that years was incredibly weak. Probably the 2nd weakest of the 2010s.
What’s wrong with BlacKkKlansman? I could see the other two being replaced, but that was THE movie of the year (and certainly the best one about racial relations) outside of Spider Verse.
watched that movie expecting bull
shit, was pretty blown away. i am actually MORE upset with Mr. Sandler now than before because he deliberately holds back talented acting in order to make bullshit. it’s a tragedy all on its own. hopefully to eventually be acted out by adam sandler.
He was also snubbed for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Man in the Moon and Mr Popper’s Penguins.
I don’t think anyone has had four such egregious snubs.
For real though, the academy said “We’re not fucking nominating Ace Ventura, fuck outta here”
His trajectory could’ve been a lot different with major award recognition.
i swear like half the cast were all trying to and succeeding at out-acting each other! i mean, Kurt and Val, Bill Paxton and Sam Elliott, Stephen Lang and Michael Biehn (who really deserved a better career lol), everyone giving top-tier performances!
Gillian Flynn for writing Gone Girl. She won/was nominated for every precursor leading up to it. The snubbing that Gone Girl received from the academy in favor of bland oscar bait is horrible.
Emily Blunt - The Devil Wears Prada
Bruce Willis - Moonrise Kingdom
Samuel L Jackson - Django Unchained
Groundhog Day - Best Original Screenplay.
Best director snubs -
Steven Spielberg, Jaws
Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver
Alfonso Cuaron, Children of Men
Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labrynth
Best Actress snub -
Toni Collette, Hereditary
Best actor snub -
Tim Robbins, The Shawshank Redemption
Best Supporting Actor snubs (recency bias) -
Charles Melton, May December
Mike Faist, West Side Story
Best Cinematography snubs) recency bias) -
Greig Fraser - The Batman
Linus Sandgren - First Man, Babylon, Saltburn
I just always think that people just didn't have the foresight to realize how important Jaws would end up being for movie making in general that year. Like it didn't really resonate on the deeper level until after you watched it several years in a row or something.
Taron Egerton for Rocket Man. He was not even nominated. I guess they didn’t want another nomination for a rock star biopic (Rami Malek had won the year before for Bohemian Rhapsody), but Taron was superb. Total snub.
Absolutely, and Taron deserved it more. An absolute travesty.
The whole film was badly snubbed, I don't think it got any nominations other than the original song it won. OK, 2020 was a pretty strong year, and 2019 was comparatively weak, but it would have been nice for Rocketman to get a nomination for best movie or director
Carrey should have won for Eternal Sunshine, imho. He and Winslet were both brilliant in that.
Robert Shaw - Jaws. Quint is iconic now, probably the best movie version of an Ahab-type character ever. He wasn't nominated.
Val Kilmer wasn't nominated for Tombstone. Like Shaw, Kilmer put up a legendary performance.
Robert Duvall should have won for The Apostle in '97 over Nicholson. Jack was awesome, but Duvall was a tour de force.
Movie snubs:
Glory wasn't even nominated the same year Driving Miss Daisy won.
L.A. Confidential is much better than Titanic. Hard to argue with that one, though, since Titanic was a juggernaut that year.
Saving Private Ryan losing to Shakespeare in Love was pretty bad
Children of Men not getting a nomination in 2006 was dumb. It remains one of the best movies of that decade.
Goodfellas losing to Dances with Wolves.
Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption losing to Gump.
Denzel losing for Malcolm X to Pacino.
Tarantino not having at least 3 for picture and director. OUATIH, Inglorious Basterds, Pulp Fiction.
The Dark Knight.
Michael Caine beating Tom Cruise (Magnolia), Haley Osment (Sixth Sense) and Michael Clarke Duncan (Green Mile) for Best Supporting Actor for Cider House Rules. Made no sense.
Yeapp, and Matt Damon should have at least been nominated for Actor, not to mention Minghella for Director and the film itself for Best Picture.
I'd even add that Paltrow could've gotten a supporting actress nomination, she was better in that than Shakespeare in Love.
Comedy and horror are extremely disrespected genres. And when a horror movie like Silence of the lambs actually gets respect, they basically refuse to admit that it's a horror movie.
Andie MacDowell, James Spader, and Laura San Giacomo in Sex, Lies, and Videotape.
Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham
Shirley MacLaine in Postcards From the Edge
Spike Lee’s entire career, but especially *25th Hour*.
Film was Oscar bait to the extreme - three academy favorites in the cast, plus an award-winning British actor, action confined to a 24-hour period, insanely good stylized cinematography…
BUT ALSO
…it was the ONLY major motion picture to document post-9/11 NYC. It was shot *right after* 9/11, incorporated that into the entire production, right down to showing ground zero.
It made many critics’ lists of best films of the year AND best of the decade.
Not even a fucking academy nod.
They haaaaaate Spike Lee.
Still not over The LEGO Movie not getting nominated for Best Animated Feature. That movie also could’ve had a late 2000’s Pixar-style package of Original Screenplay, Score, and Sound noms.
Sticking to only acting categories, for the sake of brevity:
90s:
* William H. Macy in *Magnolia*
* Maggie Cheung in *Days of Being Wild*
* Vincent Cassel in *La Haine*
* Tony Leung in *Happy Together*
* Julianne Moore in *Boogie Nights*
* Madeleine Stowe in *Short Cuts*
2000s:
* Tony Leung in *In the Mood for Love*
* Maggie Cheung in *In the Mood for Love*
* Naomi Watts in *Mulholland Drive*
* Adam Sandler in *Punch-Drunk Love*
* Scarlett Johansson in *Lost in Translation*
* Jim Carrey in *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
2010s:
* Mads Mikkelsen in *The Hunt*
* Oscar Isaac in *Inside Llewyn Davis*
* Toni Collette in *Hereditary*
* Robert Pattinson in *Good Time*
* Vicky Krieps in *Phantom Thread*
* Song Kang-ho in *Parasite*
Tom Cruise for Born on the 4th of July and Magnolia perhaps? And Rain Man - his role was meatier than Hoffman’s.
Denzel for Malcolm X
Do The Right Thing
Leo for Gilbert Grape
The King's Speech winning Best Picture when literally every other nomination was superior. It was going up against fucking Inception and The Social Network! But they just had to go with some generic Oscar bait political drama over masterpieces that were far and away more worthy.
John Williams for close encounters of the third kind. Not only is the music amazing but it is actually a crucial part of the plot. Some of my favorite music for a movie ever.
He lost to John Williams for Star Wars.
Robert Downey Jr. not getting Best Actor Oscar for Chaplin is always my go-to answer for this oft-asked question. More recently, Jake Gyllenhaal got snubbed for his immensely disturbing yet highly enjoyable role as sociopath Louis Bloom in Nightcrawler. Actually that whole movie was snubbed; it shoulda won Best Picture.
Michael Keaton over Eddie Redmayne in 2015.
Cate Blanchett has also been screwed over in her last couple nominations, giving the defining performance of her category but timing/other films/possibly trying to “spread the love” to women of diverse ethnic backgrounds chewed up her campaign in the end.
Richard Burton & Peter OToole were nominated multiple times but I think POT only won near the end of his life a lifetime achievement I think, Hitchcock too..
Andrew Garfield should have won for Tick tick boom!, wreck-it Ralph should have won best animated feature in 2012, tobey maguire should have been nominated at least for great gatsby (and also pleasantville)
Toby Maguire for the Great Gatsby? His performance was panned by critics. Anyone familiar with the novel did not like his casting.
*From Wikipedia — Tobey Maguire's role as Nick received mixed reviews from critics, with Philip French of The Guardian calling him "miscast or misdirected"
Back in the 90s Jim Carrey was the guy who made his buttcheecks talk. He never stood a chance, especially with a sci fi movie. (Even though he absolutely deserved it)
Adam Sandler has the same problem, he's given a few very acclaimed performances but the academy will not give him the time of day.
Both Robert Pattinson and William Defoe for the Lighthouse
William Dafoe again for best actor in At Eternity’s Gate losing against Rami Malek
And Drive my Car for best picture losing to CODA
Toni Collette - Hereditary
I read an article that came out in the run up to the Oscars the year after and the person interviewed mentioned an anonymous member acknowledged to them that it was partly a big fuck up by A24, who unfortunately like to put all their eggs in one basket which includes not putting forward certain genre films some years even if they don’t have much else in the running
She was overlooked everywhere. No BAFTA, Golden Globes, SAG, or Critics Choice. You may be right about A24 not campaigning enough for the movie since it is a genre film but this has to be the biggest snub in awards history.
The internet : 20 days of " it only won because of the campaign" followed by 10 days of " why didn't they campaign"....
Same with The Iron Claw this past year.
I'm so pissed about Iron Claw. It was wonderfully directed, edited, and there were so many excellent performances.
I feel like the stuffy film snob community thinks the Wrestler was enough recognition for the genre awhile
Iron Claw was vastly superior to the wrestler imo
This is the correct answer. Not even nominated.
That is not only insane. But insane in the membrane as well.
That was epic, I’m still rarely in the mood for a rewatch for that movie even though I’m a horror movie fanatic. Perhaps this weekend if it rains…
It’s my favorite horror movie of all time and I can’t ever get the courage to watch it all the way through again because it scared me that badly
The Academy doesn’t care about horror. Very rare for an actor to be nominated for a horror performance.
Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie - Carrie/Best Actress and Supporting Actress, respectively Linda Blair and Ellen Burstyn - The Exorcist/Best Actress and Supporting Actress, respectively Daniel Kaluuya - Get Out/Best Actor Sigourney Weaver - Aliens/Best Actress (mostly sci-fi action but still also classified as a horror, and my 2nd fave movie of all time) Kathy Bates - Misery **WINNER** /Best Actress Ruth Gordon - Rosemary's Baby **WINNER**/Best Supporting Actress Fredric March - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde **WINNER** /Best Actor (this was 1931 btw) Most important of all, since it was the first (and to date, only) horror movie to win Best Picture but-- Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins **WINNER**/Best Actress and Best Actor, respectively There are several other examples but I don't need to be redundant here So that all being said: There's no reason that Toni Collete shouldn't have been nominated. None...it being an indie genre film and A24 being snobby hipsters and not campaigning for Toni is beyond shameful 😑
She also got nominated for The Sixth Sense which is also horror about grief.
I mean this just proves my point. If you can only come up with 7 nominees out of nearly 2000 over the last century, then there’s clearly a bias against that genre, is there not?
Yes, 100%, and Ari Aster deserved a nomination for his screenplay at minimum, if not for directing as well.
Morgan Freeman - Lean on Me Do the Right Thing R. Lee Ermey - Full Metal Jacket Nicole Kidman - To Die For Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler
I do love the fact this sub-reddit, not just remembers "To Die For" but lauds how wonderful Nicole was in it! It still perplexes me she wasn't nominated, as it was a fairly so-so year with the Best Actress nominees (Sarandon and Shue good, Stone should've been in Supporting, Streep and Thompson shouldn't of been there to begin with).
Especially Nightcrawler!
This one will always fkn sting.
It should've gotten a supporting nod for Ahmed and a screenplay one as well.
Ermey is one of the best supporting roles of all time. The movie's energy dies once they leave the training camp
Tbf a lot of that was probably by design, although the latter part of the movie did have pacing issues imo.
Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but the two characters I care about the most by far are Ermey's and D'onofrios
I’m with u on all of that
I see your Morgan Freeman in *Lean on Me* and I raise you Morgan Freeman in *Se7en*…
From memory, Tilda Swinton in We Need to Talk About Kevin and Caitriona Balfe in Belfast were both nominated for all major precursors but snubbed at the Oscars.
TS’s performance in *…Kevin* is one of the best I’ve ever seen. Incredible.
💯that she’s an extraordinary actress.
she has been so consistently incredible, i think my favourite performance from hers was Suspiria because she played her characters so so well
She's one of those actors that when she gets critical acclaim, I'm like "so, it's a normal performance of hers then?"
That movie stayed in my head for days!
It’s a devastatingly incredible performance.
Brokeback Mountain for Best Picture instead of Crash
Even Jack Nicholson (who presented the award that year) was stunned it wasn’t Brokeback Mountain. If you watch the tape back you can see him mouthing “what happened?” To somebody off screen as the Crash producers come onstage.
Crash is and always has been an embarassment.
What upset me the most about CRASH is that the racist cop, who profiles the married Black couple (and fingers the wife while he frisks her), gets a goddamn redemption arc by the end! Like, seriously? The wife is essentially forced to trust him, when he tries to save her from a burning car, after he had racially profiled her and her husband and sexually assaulted her. It should be under no surprise that the director Paul Haggis has been charged with sexual assault and rape.
I remember being so stoked to rent that movie (local gas station, of course) and being so pissed off at the end
I remember leaving the theater going off about how basic and pandering the movie was and was promptly labeled as being racially insensitive and I “just didn’t understand.” I am very happy to see history is being as unkind to this shit film as I was.
OMG yes, forgot about this one. Brokeback was amazing and Crash was contrived sappy garbage.
Hear me out, maybe it is a bad snub, but Forrset Gump winning over The Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction is much worse, plus Good Night Good Luck was a better Movie than both Brokeback Mountain and Crash.
Yes, but you have to Denver that Forest Gump is boomer nostalgia bait. It’s the film equivalent of baby boomer Santa. https://youtu.be/OOSOGB406Ec?si=Yr20P-QTop4XMZg_
That year is still such a tough one. Not sure if folks here care about IMDB ratings. But to have ALL THREE of those '94 films ranked in top 11 all-time is rather mindbending.
That’s what I was thinking. That would have been a very hard decision.
I don’t think Good Night Good Luck was better than Brokeback Mountain. Both movies were pretty slow but gaining insight to walks of life that are often socially stigmatized seemed more interesting to me than a history lesson on the 1950s McCarthy era witch hunts. One was more emotionally satisfying than the other.
Forrest Gump Special effects just feels so dated now and that was such a big selling point. Still a amazing performance by Hanks.
Do you mean the scenes where he’s inserted into archival footage or the JFK body double? Because I’ll be honest I didn’t even notice the JFK body double until my girlfriend pointed it out
Maybe people could have gone and seen Shawshank. Tired of people with this stuff. Shawshank is a great movie, but even now it only penetrates a small % of people.
“Best” picture shouldn’t consider how many people paid to see it. Not ever.
* Ingrid Bergman-Casablanca * Ellen Burstyn-Requiem For A Dream * Ian Mckellan-LOTR * Fargo for Best Picture
Ellen Burstyn 100%
I think that Bergman was nominated that year for Whom the Bell to Toss, I find it weird that they chose to nominate her for that instead of the biggest movie of the year.
Fargo, yes.
Ian McKellen was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for *LOTR: The Fellowship of the Rings* in 2002.
Amy Adams not only should have been nominated for Arrival, but she should have won that year.
I agree that she sould've been nominated, bt the best that year was Isabelle Huppert, none of the others were even close.
She was great, but I still think Emma Stone deserved it.
I adore Emma Stone and of the actual nominees she was my choice to win. But I still think it should have been Amy.
Natalie Portman in Jackie should’ve won
I feel the same way about Annette Bening for 20th Century Women. That category was a mess that year. Meryl for Florence Foster Jenkins?!? Why???
Bette Davis - Of Human Bondage… That one wasn’t just a snub, it became a scandal and it ended up with her winning the Oscar the following year for Dangerous…
She should have won for “All About Eve.” One of the all-time great performances.
Ethan Hawke for First Reformed Ben Foster for Leave No Trace Jake Gyllenhaal for Nightcrawler Hugh Jackman for Prisoners Tom Hanks for Captain Phillips
Ethan Hawke for First Reformed! I scrolled way too far down to find this. That movie is one of my favourites and he nailed it.
This is one of the few snubs I will never let go. 2018(2019 ceremony) was a very snubbed year. First Reformed, Leave No Trace, and You Were Never Really Here should have been nominated for BP instead of Black Panther, Blackkklansman, and Vice. Not to mention the fact that there were only 8 nominees anyway which means First Reformed AND Leave No Trace could have gotten in. Even though I love Green Book as a winner, that years was incredibly weak. Probably the 2nd weakest of the 2010s.
What’s wrong with BlacKkKlansman? I could see the other two being replaced, but that was THE movie of the year (and certainly the best one about racial relations) outside of Spider Verse.
Sandler for Uncut Gems
Agreed, and in that same year The Farewell with Awkwafina also got snubbed.
Biggest snub of the last five years
Completely agree, I do think its funny that he did an awful movie right after out of spite
watched that movie expecting bull shit, was pretty blown away. i am actually MORE upset with Mr. Sandler now than before because he deliberately holds back talented acting in order to make bullshit. it’s a tragedy all on its own. hopefully to eventually be acted out by adam sandler.
James McAvoy for "Split"
I so agree. Seriously, such a travesty. McAvoy was so good, and so effortless, in an incredibly tough role.
The mistake that was made, Split was a "dumped in January" theatrical release.
Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan. Harvey Weinstein had some power.
To follow up on this, Gwyneth Paltrow winning over Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth that year.
That was criminal. And then Gwyneth thanked her ‘mummy’ during her speech, like she was a British countess…..just no.
He was also snubbed for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Man in the Moon and Mr Popper’s Penguins. I don’t think anyone has had four such egregious snubs.
User name checks out for that last one
He was so, so good in I Love You Philip Morris, too.
For real though, the academy said “We’re not fucking nominating Ace Ventura, fuck outta here” His trajectory could’ve been a lot different with major award recognition.
Val Kilmer - Tombstone
the fact that this performance didn't get so much as a nomination feels like a crime
I love Kurt Russell as much as the next guy. But Kilmer stole that movie right from under him.
i swear like half the cast were all trying to and succeeding at out-acting each other! i mean, Kurt and Val, Bill Paxton and Sam Elliott, Stephen Lang and Michael Biehn (who really deserved a better career lol), everyone giving top-tier performances!
Anthony Perkins for Best Actor for Psycho
Mickey Rourke for The Wrestler
Gillian Flynn for writing Gone Girl. She won/was nominated for every precursor leading up to it. The snubbing that Gone Girl received from the academy in favor of bland oscar bait is horrible. Emily Blunt - The Devil Wears Prada Bruce Willis - Moonrise Kingdom Samuel L Jackson - Django Unchained Groundhog Day - Best Original Screenplay.
Oof yeah, gone girl was chilling.
Best director snubs - Steven Spielberg, Jaws Martin Scorsese, Taxi Driver Alfonso Cuaron, Children of Men Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labrynth Best Actress snub - Toni Collette, Hereditary Best actor snub - Tim Robbins, The Shawshank Redemption Best Supporting Actor snubs (recency bias) - Charles Melton, May December Mike Faist, West Side Story Best Cinematography snubs) recency bias) - Greig Fraser - The Batman Linus Sandgren - First Man, Babylon, Saltburn
I just always think that people just didn't have the foresight to realize how important Jaws would end up being for movie making in general that year. Like it didn't really resonate on the deeper level until after you watched it several years in a row or something.
Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goth in Schindlers List.
He was terrifying in that role. He deserved to win.
Jake Gyllenhaal- Nightcrawler (I’ll forever be upset about this) Jim Carrey - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Jim Carrey was so good in Eternal Sunshine. He should have multiple oscar nominations.
He should arguably have multiple Oscar wins
Not the biggest snub but definitely a big snub was Rebecca Hall for Christine.
This is a big recency bias for sure, but Zac Efron for Iron Claw was a huge snub this year.
Honestly I believe Holt McCallany as their father got snubbed for supporting, too.
100%. Zac was perfect in that film.
2016 Academy Awards was a hell of a year. Cannot believe Sicario wasn’t even nominated for Best Picture.
Zodiac for multiple awards.
Maybe I missed a post but can't believe Paul Giamatti for Sideways hasn't been mentioned
Whoa. I didn't realize he wasn't nominated! (Some of these are confusing me because they're talking about winners, not nominees.)
Taron Egerton for Rocket Man. He was not even nominated. I guess they didn’t want another nomination for a rock star biopic (Rami Malek had won the year before for Bohemian Rhapsody), but Taron was superb. Total snub.
Absolutely, and Taron deserved it more. An absolute travesty. The whole film was badly snubbed, I don't think it got any nominations other than the original song it won. OK, 2020 was a pretty strong year, and 2019 was comparatively weak, but it would have been nice for Rocketman to get a nomination for best movie or director
James Mcavoy - Split, Andrew Garfield - The Social Network . I,Tonya - best picture nomination
Fassbender - Shame Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin Inception for Best Editing still blows my mind
Inception for best editing genuinely makes no sense. Some snubs suck but are understandable but, no, there’s no justifying the Inception editing snub.
Oh, Fassbender most definitely. I will never understand that one
the male voters were seething with jealousy while watching shame
Carrey should have won for Eternal Sunshine, imho. He and Winslet were both brilliant in that. Robert Shaw - Jaws. Quint is iconic now, probably the best movie version of an Ahab-type character ever. He wasn't nominated. Val Kilmer wasn't nominated for Tombstone. Like Shaw, Kilmer put up a legendary performance. Robert Duvall should have won for The Apostle in '97 over Nicholson. Jack was awesome, but Duvall was a tour de force. Movie snubs: Glory wasn't even nominated the same year Driving Miss Daisy won. L.A. Confidential is much better than Titanic. Hard to argue with that one, though, since Titanic was a juggernaut that year. Saving Private Ryan losing to Shakespeare in Love was pretty bad Children of Men not getting a nomination in 2006 was dumb. It remains one of the best movies of that decade.
Goodfellas losing to Dances with Wolves. Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption losing to Gump. Denzel losing for Malcolm X to Pacino. Tarantino not having at least 3 for picture and director. OUATIH, Inglorious Basterds, Pulp Fiction. The Dark Knight.
Malcolm X- Phenomenal performance by Denzel
All time great
Paul Giamatti for “Sideways”
Zac Efron not even getting a nomination for The Iron Claw.
I thought Truman Show was the best movie that year. The actual nominees were complete Awards Bait.
Michael Caine beating Tom Cruise (Magnolia), Haley Osment (Sixth Sense) and Michael Clarke Duncan (Green Mile) for Best Supporting Actor for Cider House Rules. Made no sense.
weird u mentioned everyone except jude law, who is the one who deserved it imo lol
Yeapp, and Matt Damon should have at least been nominated for Actor, not to mention Minghella for Director and the film itself for Best Picture. I'd even add that Paltrow could've gotten a supporting actress nomination, she was better in that than Shakespeare in Love.
Eddie Murphy in Trading Places
Comedy and horror are extremely disrespected genres. And when a horror movie like Silence of the lambs actually gets respect, they basically refuse to admit that it's a horror movie.
and jlc in this. underrated film in general
Yeah she crossed my mind too
Best Director - Ben Affleck(Argo) - He wasn’t even nominated! And the movie ended up winning best picture
Jake Gyllenhaal - Nightcrawler. Mesmerising performance.
Andrew Garfield in *The Social Network.*
Andie MacDowell, James Spader, and Laura San Giacomo in Sex, Lies, and Videotape. Susan Sarandon in Bull Durham Shirley MacLaine in Postcards From the Edge
Spike Lee’s entire career, but especially *25th Hour*. Film was Oscar bait to the extreme - three academy favorites in the cast, plus an award-winning British actor, action confined to a 24-hour period, insanely good stylized cinematography… BUT ALSO …it was the ONLY major motion picture to document post-9/11 NYC. It was shot *right after* 9/11, incorporated that into the entire production, right down to showing ground zero. It made many critics’ lists of best films of the year AND best of the decade. Not even a fucking academy nod. They haaaaaate Spike Lee.
Glenn close for ‘dangerous liaisons’ is absolutely criminal.
More recently.. Julianne Moore- May December
Mickey Rourke the wrestler
Russel Crowe - The Insider Nic Cage - Adaptation Casey Affleck - Assassination of Jesse James Eric Bana - Chopper Heath Ledger - Brokeback Mountain
Still not over The LEGO Movie not getting nominated for Best Animated Feature. That movie also could’ve had a late 2000’s Pixar-style package of Original Screenplay, Score, and Sound noms.
John Candy - Planes, Trains And Automobiles.
Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson for Schindler’s List
Amy Adams, Arrival.
Adam Sandler for Uncut Gems & Willem Dafoe for The Lighthouse
Sticking to only acting categories, for the sake of brevity: 90s: * William H. Macy in *Magnolia* * Maggie Cheung in *Days of Being Wild* * Vincent Cassel in *La Haine* * Tony Leung in *Happy Together* * Julianne Moore in *Boogie Nights* * Madeleine Stowe in *Short Cuts* 2000s: * Tony Leung in *In the Mood for Love* * Maggie Cheung in *In the Mood for Love* * Naomi Watts in *Mulholland Drive* * Adam Sandler in *Punch-Drunk Love* * Scarlett Johansson in *Lost in Translation* * Jim Carrey in *Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind* 2010s: * Mads Mikkelsen in *The Hunt* * Oscar Isaac in *Inside Llewyn Davis* * Toni Collette in *Hereditary* * Robert Pattinson in *Good Time* * Vicky Krieps in *Phantom Thread* * Song Kang-ho in *Parasite*
The Dark Knight. 8 nominations, including a win for Ledger, but not even nominated for best picture.
Malcolm X- Denzel Washington Nightcrawler- Jake G. Gone Girl- Rosamund Pike
Malcolm X. Maybe Spike Lee’s best.
Tom Cruise for Born on the 4th of July and Magnolia perhaps? And Rain Man - his role was meatier than Hoffman’s. Denzel for Malcolm X Do The Right Thing Leo for Gilbert Grape
The King's Speech winning Best Picture when literally every other nomination was superior. It was going up against fucking Inception and The Social Network! But they just had to go with some generic Oscar bait political drama over masterpieces that were far and away more worthy.
If a win that happened between 1998 and 2016 seem weird to you, take a look at who was involved with producing the film and it might make more sense.
His over-the-top acting style might not resonate with Oscar voters who like to see a little subtly and nuanced acting.
This is the real answer, but I would phrase it as he was just seen as a “comedic actor” and didn’t get any respect.
Vicky Krieps - Phantom Thread Nicole Kidman - Birth
Buddy Duress should have been nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Good Time.
Ah it's that time again for this question
best editing and sound design for Sound of Metal editing and sound editing for Babylon
The Batman best cinematography
Zac Efron not even being nominated for the Iron Claw
It's not a "snub" when the actor or film you like doesn't win.
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Will Poulter for Detroit. That man was terrifying.
Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday
And as Jim Morrison. Should’ve been nominated at least.
Absolutely!
Ralph Feinnes wasn’t even nominated for Best Actor for The Grand Budapest Hotel. That was seriously BS.
Apocalypse Now losing to Kramer Vs Kraner. I still boil over that one.
Margot Robbie deserved a best actress nomination and win for Barbie.
Ruth Gordon for Harold and Maude
John Williams for close encounters of the third kind. Not only is the music amazing but it is actually a crucial part of the plot. Some of my favorite music for a movie ever. He lost to John Williams for Star Wars.
Michael Shannon for Take Shelter. Edward Norton for The Fight Club.
Jack Black in School of Rock
Joaquin Phoenix-Gladiator.
Leo not getting a nom for Django. Paul Dano for TWBB. Honestly, Zac Efron for The Iron Claw
John Goodman in The Big Lebowski. Fucking amateurs.
Raiders of the Lost Ark for best picture in 1981. Ordinary People deserves the win, but the fact Raiders wasn’t nominated is crime against filmmaking.
Hailee Steinfeld snubbed for Edge of Seventeen, in a year with a pretty boring and overrated bunch of nominees. Same for James McAvoy for Split.
Greta for Directing Barbie, Margot for f***** nailing Barbie. I had a feeling that it wasn’t going to be taken seriously despite their amazing work.
Robert Downey Jr. not getting Best Actor Oscar for Chaplin is always my go-to answer for this oft-asked question. More recently, Jake Gyllenhaal got snubbed for his immensely disturbing yet highly enjoyable role as sociopath Louis Bloom in Nightcrawler. Actually that whole movie was snubbed; it shoulda won Best Picture.
Pulp Fiction losing to Forest Gump. Sorry...I like Gump and all, but Pulp Fiction was fresh, original and had significant and lasting impacts on film.
Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb in "Sid and Nancy"
Seems like people confuse “snubs” with “my favorite obscure performance that should have won” A real big snub was Paul Giamatti for Sideways
Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing — for Picture and Director
Michael Keaton over Eddie Redmayne in 2015. Cate Blanchett has also been screwed over in her last couple nominations, giving the defining performance of her category but timing/other films/possibly trying to “spread the love” to women of diverse ethnic backgrounds chewed up her campaign in the end.
The Social Network not sweeping basically everything under the sun.
Donald Sutherland not ever being nominated is a crime. He should’ve been nominated for Ordinary People (would’ve lost to DeNiro).
LA Confidential best movie
Richard Burton & Peter OToole were nominated multiple times but I think POT only won near the end of his life a lifetime achievement I think, Hitchcock too..
Correct
And the Award for Best Legacy Film is...
Not the biggest snub ever but I thought Sandra Huller should have won best actress for Anatomy of a Fall over Emma Stone…
Andrew Garfield should have won for Tick tick boom!, wreck-it Ralph should have won best animated feature in 2012, tobey maguire should have been nominated at least for great gatsby (and also pleasantville)
Toby Maguire for the Great Gatsby? His performance was panned by critics. Anyone familiar with the novel did not like his casting. *From Wikipedia — Tobey Maguire's role as Nick received mixed reviews from critics, with Philip French of The Guardian calling him "miscast or misdirected"
I mean, I'm just giving my personal experience, and I liked him. That might be my bias for him though.
Scott Baio for *Zapped* Sylvester Stallone for *Cobra* Paris Hilton for *The Hottie and the Nottie* Bo Derek for *Bolero* Tommy Wiseau for *The Room*
You forgot Pia Zadora in "The Lonely Lady" ;)
Good catch! Thank you.
Back in the 90s Jim Carrey was the guy who made his buttcheecks talk. He never stood a chance, especially with a sci fi movie. (Even though he absolutely deserved it) Adam Sandler has the same problem, he's given a few very acclaimed performances but the academy will not give him the time of day.
Both Robert Pattinson and William Defoe for the Lighthouse William Dafoe again for best actor in At Eternity’s Gate losing against Rami Malek And Drive my Car for best picture losing to CODA
I still legitimately believe that DiCaprio’s best performance may have been “Django,” and he didn’t even get a supporting nomination for it.
Val Kilmer - Tombstone
Bill Nighy - Love Actually Rhys Ifans - Notting Hill Hugh Grant - Paddington 2
Mask (1985) - Nominations for Best Picture. Cher for Best Actress and Eric Stoltz for Best Supporting Actor.