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Who should have won the Oscar?

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Every year, it seems, there's a headshaker of a decision at the Awards. What is your favorite case of an Oscar slight?
Mine is the female lead in "Central Station," a few years back. One of the greatest of all screen performances and only a nomination to show for it. If you missed it, rent it NOW. It was, arguably, the best film of that year, as well.

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Ohh and who I think was robbed... - RGA 20:22:13 08/25/03 (0)
Well They are SOOOOOOO numerous but i will choose Ralph Fiennes for his supporting role in Schindler's List. No way he should not have won that award. Ben Kingsley was my second choice for supporting actor in SChindler's and he didn't even get nominated - and Embeth Davidtz should have been nominated for Schindler's List in the best supporting Actress category. They picked the right film that year though for a change. Though they couldn't select much else...Schindler's was so far and away superior to everything else that year i don't know why they even bopthered to have the ceremony...other than to rob the cast of the awards.
Re: Who should have won the Oscar? - RGA 20:15:13 08/25/03 (0)
That was 1998 and was a fairly weak.
The films I saw in 1998 rated(Out of five): *** or better recommended:
Affliction **
American History X ***1/2
Antz ****
Armageddon **
Avengers, The *
Blade ***
Central Station ***1/2
City Of Angels **1/2
Civil Action, A ***
Croupier ***1/2
Elizabeth ***
Enemy Of The State ***
Fallen **
Gods and Monsters ***1/2
Godzilla **
Great Expectations *1/2
Halloween: H2O **1/2
Hard Rain *
He Got Game ***
Hilary and Jackie ***
Horse Whisperer, The ***
Jack Frost **
John Carpenter's Vampires *
Les Miserables **
Lethal Weapon 4 **
Life Is Beautiful ****
Little Voice ***
Lock , Stock, And Two Smoking Barrels **1/2
Major League: Back to the Minors *1/2
Negotiator, The ***1/2
Patch Adams *1/2
Pleasantville ***1/2
Red Violin, The **1/2
Saving Private Ryan ****1/2
Shakespeare In Love ****
Simple Plan, A ***
Sliding Doors **1/2
Spanish Prisoner, The **
Sphere *
Star Trek: Insurrection **1/2
There's Something About Mary ****
Truman Show, The ***
Wild Things **1/2
Zero Effect ***

Pretty weak year...all in all I was not too upset with Shakespeare in Love winning. The More Shakespeare you know...the more fun you'll have with this film...and since actors are voters...it was not too too surprising. Saving Private Ryan despite the bookends of the film is the best film on the subject, intelligent with the Hanks character amd an insightful and complex aspects of field heroism combined with the most heartfelt spectacular battle sequences ever shot...even eclipsing the work of the great Kurosawa vibrancy of the Seven Samurai.
Re: Who should have won the Oscar? - larry I 10:19:22 08/21/03 (0)
I guess I just don't have a handle on the criteria "best" since probably none of the choices the academy has made in the last 30 years or so would be my choice. How can "best" be attached to anything E. Taylor has won twice? Hard to imagine the academy had the good senses of nominating Norma Aleandro ("The Official Story") but did not give her the award.
Re: Who should have won the Oscar? - gware 19:59:58 08/20/03 (0)
Ellen Burstyn for her role in Requiem for a Dream
Eric
Re: Who should have won the Oscar? - albee33 18:03:55 08/20/03 (0)
Amelie for all five nominations.
Re: Who should have won the Oscar? - Analog Scott 16:20:36 08/20/03 (0)
Peter Sellers for Being There.
Re: Who should have won the Oscar? - patrickU 08:24:24 08/20/03 (0)
Yep, a very good film.
Re: Who should have won the Oscar? - Troy 07:42:08 08/20/03 (1)
"Adaptation" for adapted screenplay.
- Agreed...I figured that was a lock? Oh Well. NT. - RGA 19:49:56 08/25/03 (0)
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