A sub for redditors interested in following and predicting the Oscar race throughout the year.
And you can't say "Brokeback Mountain winning Best Picture" because everyone will post that.
UPDATE: Can't post "Al Pacino for Godfather Part 2", either because everyone's posting that, too! LOL
Here are mine:
• 80th: Transformers winning VFX. Didn't like the movie but those were groundbreaking and still look good to this day while Golden Compass looked iffy even back in 2007.
• 44th: A Clockwork Orange winning Picture. French Connection's great but A Clockwork Orange is unanimously acclaimed as one of the best ever made.
• 72nd: Blame Canada winning Song. Because Trey Parker is one of the most talented human beings in history and Phil Collins can bite my ass (not to be crass).
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10th: Literally anyone else nominated over Luise Rainer in The Good Earth
41st: Peter O’Toole in The Lion in Winter over Cliff Robertson in Charly
75th: Martin Scorsese for Gangs of New York over Roman Polanski for The Pianist, Scorsese deserves multiple Oscars and I just really hate the idea of Polanski having an Oscar years after he had to flee the US over his rape charges.
I sort of think it should have been Rob Marshall for Chicago.
I remember the first time I saw ‘Charly’ and all I could think was: THIS BEAT KING HENRY?!
I think it would have been better if he won Best Director for The Aviator over Clint Eastwood for Million Dollar Baby.
I don't want Scorsese to win for a Weinstein-botched movie. And while Polanski's a scumbag, The Pianist maybe the greatest movie about the Holocaust.
Could have done without the standing ovation, though.
Problem is that The Pianist should never have been able to be made as one can't direct films from prison.
It’s a great achievement but personally the person who made it ruins my feelings about it, at least in Picture and Director where Polanski is directly awarded. Gangs of New York isn’t Scorse’s best but it still is a very good movie from him, would be fine with Rob Marshall or Almodovar winning too.
1975 - Al Pacino winning Best Actor for Godfather 2
1993 - Denzel Washington winning Best Actor for Malcolm X
2019 - Bradley Cooper wins Best Actor for A Star is Born (then there wouldn't have been a "he's desperate" discourse during the Maestro campaign)
+1 on Bradley, also it was a very good performance imo. He truly transformed into his role without being too extra and did a great job at both acting and singing
Denzel should be up there with DDL for Oscar wins. i think he deserved the gold for Malcom X, Fences, & Macbeth!
2020: Carey Mulligan over Frances McDormand in Best Actress
2019: Scarlett Johansson over Laura Dern in Best Supporting Actress
2009: Gabourey Sidibe over Sandra Bullock in Best Actress
3/3 agree
By release year:
2008 - The Dark Knight wins Best Picture. Didnt mind Slumdog Millionaire winning out of the nominated movies, but TDK not getting nominated was a travesty.
1990 - Martin Scorsese wins Best Director (and picture) for Goodfellas
1974 - Al Pacino wins Best Actor for The Godfather: Part-II.
You can thank Weinstein for TDK not getting nominated
16th Academy Awards: Ingrid Bergman gets nominated for and wins Best Actress for Casablanca.
10th Academy Awards: Barbara Stanwyck wins Best Actress for Stella Dallas
27th Academy Awards: Judy Garland wins Best Actress for A Star Is Born
1994: Farewell My Concubine for Best International Picture
2006: Howl's Moving Castle for Best Animated Picture
2007: Pan's Labyrinth for Best International Picture
Tom Cruise winning Supporting Actor for Magnolia
George Miller winning Best Director for Mad Max: Fury Road
P.T. Anderson winning Adapted Screenplay for Inherent Vice
1975: Al Pacino wins Best Actor for The Godfather Part II
2019: Bradley Cooper wins Best Actor for A Star is Born
2020: Adam Driver wins Best Actor for Marriage Story
37th: Peter O'Toole wins for Beckett. Rex Harrison did not deserve that win and poor Peter deserved to win an Oscar in one of his noms.
50th: Star Wars wins Best Picture
74th: Ian McKellen winning Supporting. The Lotr actors deserved to win an Oscar.
2015: Charlize Theron nominated and wins for Fury Road
2022: Stephanie Hsu wins Supporting Actress for EEAAO
1941: Citizen Kane wins Best Picture.
YES TO HSU!
Would Charlize be nominated as a lead or as supporting? I can see her going either way
1954: Judy Garland wins Best Actress instead of Grace Kelly
1967: The Graduate also wins Picture, Actor, Actress, Screenplay, and Cinematography
1998: Central Station wins International Feature and Best Actress
Lily Gladstone for Killers Of The Flower Moon over Emma Stone (2023)
Martin Scorsese for The Aviator over Clint Eastwood in Directing (2004)
Leonardo DiCaprio wins his first Oscar for What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993).
Interstellar winning soundtrack
Oppenheimer winning sound
Moneyball winning best picture
I love the other 2, but I thought Zone of Interest deserved sound, it really was the core of the movie and is still haunting. Keep in mind Oppenheimer is top 5 movie all time for me
I think it had to do a lot with how much I actively didn't like Zone of Interest. The sound would have felt impactful but the thing is that the movie bored me to death so it just felt like it random noises. Especially in the very beginning.
The movie honestly wasn’t good. The creative choices visually were pretty poor. Definitely bored. And I’m Jewish so I thought it would carry extra weight.
1936 - Dodsworth winning Best Picture
1959 - Juanita Moore winning Supporting Actress for Imitation of Life
1982 - Blade Runner winning Best Art Direction
2014 - DiCaprio for The Wolf of Wall Street
2011 - Inception for Original Screenplay
2017 - Manchester By The Sea for Best Picture
Manchester By The Sea indeed
1953: The Tell Tale Heart wins Best Animated Short (Short Subject-Cartoon at the time). It is one of the best, most atmospheric, animated shorts of all time, and James Mason's narration is superb. It used to be on YouTube, idk if it still is. Check it out if you've never seen it!
1973: The Exorcist wins Best Picture. How cool would that be as a winner? Plus, The Sting is kind of meh for me.
2019: I Lost My Body wins Best Animated Feature. Was anyone that enthusiastic about Toy Story that year? I Lost My Body should've been nominated for Best Original Score as well.
Thanks for TTTH tip!
And here ya go https://youtu.be/eSr226cNhlc?si=XBj7qCM8jB-GWXJv
Cate Blanchett - Best Actress for Elizabeth.
Bette Davis - Best Actress for Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Gabourey Sidibe - Best Actress for Precious.
74th-There You’ll Be winning Best Song instead of If I Didn’t Have You
74th-Russell Crowe winning Best Actor instead of Denzel Washington
91st-Bradley Cooper winning Best Actor instead of Rami Malek
Someone else who wanted Russell Crowe to win, yay!!
I would’ve ripped that Oscar out of Jessica Chastain’s hands and given it to Kristen Stewart. Solely because I’m a big, huge, MASSIVE fan and it at all due to the merit of either’s performance. And I don’t give a fuck!
Gloria Swanson wins for Sunset Boulevard
Peter O'Toole wins for The Lion in Winter
Deborah Kerr wins for The Sundowners
Blanchett wins best actress for Tar
Pacino wins best actor for The Godfather 2
Dicaprio wins best supporting actor for Django Unchained
93rd: "Husavik" winning Song over "Fight for You" (which I also love but Husavik would've been an all-timer)
92nd: Awkwafina winning Lead Actress for The Farewell over Renée
72nd: The Matrix winning Picture over American Beauty
I was crushed at Husavik not winning that. It was such a more pivotal anchor in the film vs a song during the credits.
1999: Farnsworth in Best Actor over Spacey 1982: Hoffman in Best Actor over Kingsley 1941: Mary Astor wins supporting actress not for the great lie, but for Maltese falcon (an actual best picture nominee)
Honestly?
Hoffman for Lenny.
Moneyball wins Best Picture
Bradley Cooper for A Star Is Born
The Matrix and Fight Club get picture nominations
Toni Collette wins for Hereditary
23rd Oscars - Bette Davis wins Best Actress for All About Eve
64th Oscars - Paris is Burning is nominated for and wins Best Documentary
89th Oscars - Barry Jenkins wins Best Director for Moonlight
: Margot Robbie winning best actress for I’Tonya
: Gone Girl being nominated and winning for Adapted Screenplay
: Gabourey Sidibe winning best actress for Precious
1977: Star Wars wins Best Picture
2010: The Social Network wins Best Picture
2014: Michael Keaton wins Best Actor for Birdman
74th: Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind over Denzel Washington in Training Day for Best Actor
90th: Sally Hawkins in The Shape of Water over Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri for Best Actress
95th: Austin Butler in Elvis over Brendan Fraser in The Whale for Best Actor
...and those are just the top three. I have plenty more
I’ll do three Director wins!
63rd: Martin Scorsese (GoodFellas) over Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves)
74th: David Lynch (Mulholland Drive) over Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind)
83rd: David Fincher (The Social Network) over Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech)
Even if the winning films theoretically HAD to win Best Picture, these Director wins infuriate me to no end.
Inglorious Basterds winning best picture
fuck it - Bette Davis gets her Best Actress statuettes for Now Voyager, All About Eve, & Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
imo if Hepburn had four, i think Davis deserved five.
my alternative Best Actresses are:
Judy Garland for A Star is Born over Grace Kelly in 1954
Angelina Jolie for Changeling over Kate Winslet in 2009
Viola Davis for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom over Frances McDormand in 2020
14th Citizen Kane wins Best Picture 65th Denzal wins Best Actor 67th Pulp Fiction wins Best Picture
37th: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg winning everything above the line
75th: Spirited Away winning picture/director/screenplay
77th: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind winning all above the line awards
2015: Removing The Danish Girl from the nominees.
2022: Hsu over Curtis.
2018: Toni Collette being nominated and winning for Hereditary.