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Just watched "Last Of The Mohicans" (1992) the Michael Mann film.
It is insane & Outrageous that this picture was snubbed by the academy! LOTM....an absolute masterpiece.
Should have gotten: Best picture
Best director (Mann)
Best supporting actor (Wes Studi)
Another IN-justice: "The Right Stuff" (1983)....this picture deserved to sweep the awards that year!...but was largely ignored.Exorcist (1973) should have won best director/screenplay/
Russ
Follow Ups:
The Train in 1964 should be the best picture. Paul Scofield should had
won the best supporting actor. Does anyone seen the movie?Joseph
too many to name. It's never about the best. It's about who is due...always will be that way. Million Dollar Baby? Best Picture? Come on....could go on adnauseam...
BTW, the music for $1,000,000 Baby was all original. Clint Eastwood wrote it all...'twas excellent.. Sorry to digress...
Goodfellas losing to everything else that year is pretty high up the list -- the best film on gangsters by a WIDE margin -- vastly superior to the 3 hour long mob soap opera The Godfather (Whcih should have lost to Cabaret another film that gotr royally hosed).The Conversation was Coppola's best film.
Other ones
1) No nomination for best film for The War Zone
2) No best actor nomination for Bob Hoskins in Felicia's Journey
3) No Best Actress nomination and WIN for Linda Fiorentino for The last Seduction
4) No best picture nomination for Young Frankenstein and Actor for Gene Wilder
5) No Best supporting actor for Ralph Fiennes(Schindler's List)
6) No nomination best actor Ben Kingsley (Schindler's list)
7) No Best/actress nominations actor nominations (Cate Blanchett and Ralph Fiennes) for Oscar and Lucinda
8) No Best picture E.T., Leaving Las Vegas, Pulp Fiction, A Clockwork Orange, JFK.
9) No best actress Nomination - Katrine Vanasse in Emporte Moi
10) No best picture nomination Leaving Las Vegas, Monster's Ball.(keeping this recent)
11) anyone else winning over Russel Crowe in GladiatorAnd things that were poor choices for wins and nominations
Best Film Editing Forest Gump, Ray, LOTR(any of them).
Best Picture Gladiator, LOTR, Gandhi,
Best actor Russel Crowe - Gladiator
Best Actor Tommy Lee Jones "The Fugitive"Blaggards they always screw stuff up...generally though the best picture is at least respectable.
That it won such acclaim still amazes me. Despite some fine performances - notably Grahame Greene's, this is a pretentious piece of revisionist hooey. I don't enjoy it. "The Postman" was better.Wanna see a GOOD movie about native Americans and how the West was really won? See Arthur Penn's "Little Big Man." There is more truth in Jack Crabbe's darkly funny story than one can find anywhere in "Dances With Wolves." And don't you think Chief Dan George was magnificent?
What a great movie. It never gets mentioned these days (or to tell the truth, even back then). Never on cable. Thnx for the mention. Think I'll try to score it. Faye Dunnaway was one hot preacher's wife...
I and others have written up this one several times. Except for the woefully undershot battle of the Bighorn sequence it is a work of genius.
2001, bested by... Oliver? In 1969, I think. Kubrick never won best director.I've never heard anyone accuse Hollywood of being too intellectual.
/*Music is subjective. Sound is not.*/
I don't have much problem with the 2001 not getting an Oscar - I don't consider it such a great work. But yes, to lose to Oliver was shame nonetheless.Perhaps it is best that Kubrick never received that darn Oscar - he was able to claim greater exclusivity than he would have being admitted to the Great Hall of Infamy. Made his cult stronger.
despite the current popularity of "2001", which I have seen maybe 100 times, it was still very controversial in early 1969 when the Academy casts its votes. "Time" Magazine a year later ran a synopsis of 6 or seven of its own comments regarding the film and they started with outright negativity and evolved to a rave in that time.
Cate Blanchett not getting her well deserved Oscar - went to the Queen of Lame (but well connected Queen...) Gwyneth Paltrow.One of the most horrible misjustices ever.
The Right Stuff... not much of a movie, really. Something many of us enjoyed watching, but a MOVIE? Not really. Pass on.
Shakespeare in Love was a vastly superior film to Elizabeth a tired retread which was done miles better out of Britain.It was a coin flip between Cate and Gwyneth and I would be happy either way. Shakespeare in Love was clever -- Elizabeth was dour and rather banal --- not worth a nomination for best picture *** out of *****
Shakespeare In Love ****1/2 out of *****
Cate Blanchet was hosed of a nomination for Oscar and Lucinda however.
Shekhar Kapur as well. In a strange happenstance, there was a young Indian from Mombai who was the son of the owners of my favourite North Indian Restaurant (in Bryanston, South Africa funnily enough) who worked for Kapur and worked on this film. It was his heads up that caused me to keep an eye out.It was quite a bit removed from Kapur's notorious Bandit Queen which the young man arranged to have shown in Johannesburg. That was also an interesting movie (though owing a bit to Jodorowski), and he and I spent a few pints of Castle Lager discussing it.
I really liked Elizabeth . And I thought it was snubbed by the various awards.
I presume there is no relation to Raj Kapoor, the famous Indian director - his Vagabond was a big event.Elizabeth was a superior film to Shakespeare in all respects, I thought. And the Cate's lead performance was simply out of different league with the cute Hollywood babe.
dunno, but I would not be surprised if there were. Anglicized spellings have changed over time (Bombay to Mombai for example). I do know that this young man's maternal Grandfather was a major musical film star in India but I cannot remember the name of his mother's family to save me. The community was rather tight for a long time so some relationship is certainly possible.
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