Overrated Past Oscar Winners- What are your picks?

[Guts]

Do The Right Thing > Crash.

 

[Finarfiniel]

* Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine- Don't get me wrong, guys. I REALLY enjoy her as an actress, but she spends most of the movie crying here! Sandra Bullock was ROBBED out of getting an Oscar for Gravity in favor of THIS? ********.

I know it's your opinion and I respect that, but the comment about her spending most of the movie crying is not even remotely accurate. She cries in two or three scenes maximum. I think her performance in Blue Jasmine is the most stark and agonizingly accurate portrayal of a person going through a total mental and emotional breakdown I've ever seen. It's a freaking acting masterclass and it's what solidified her being, to me, the finest actress on the planet.

I do agree that Sandra Bullock was fantastic in Gravity and any other year I would have been glad to see her taken home the Oscar for that performance, but that year's statuette was Cate Blanchett's 100% She was untouchable.

Whoever said DiCaprio for The Revenant though? Yeah, agreed. And don't even get me started on the Paltrow fiasco...

 

[choskins]

winning instead of...

 

[MOVIELORD101]

 

[CB Fan]

Hmm, Toy Story 3 over How to Train Your Dragon.

Big Hero 6 over How to Train Your Dragon 2

Brave over Wreck it Ralph

Sandy Bullock over Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Gabourey Sidibe

 

[childeroland]

Big Hero 6, which beat Song of the Sea and the great Tale of the Princess Kaguya in 2014.

Frozen, which should not have beat Ernest and Celestine and The Wind Rises, and, as good as it is, is generally very overrated.

The Artist, which is a decent trifle, nothing more, beat Hugo, The Tree of Life, and The Descendants, all far more deserving of the win.

 

[FeedOnATreeFrog]

Argo

 

[Urich Leeds]

Birdman and The Revenant.

I just don't like those films. After you get passed the beautiful cinematography and incredibly motivated performances of the leads (Keaton and DiCaprio were desperate for the Oscar), they're just bland IMO. Just EXTREMELY average and by the books.

I'd almost go as far to say they were all style, and no substance.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

^I'll argue against that.

A lot of movies, including the likes of Birdman and The Revenant are great not because of the what story is being told, but how that story is told. This also applies to movies like Fury Road, Star Wars, Halloween, and Psycho. Hitchcock himself said that he didn't care about the script or acting, but cinema. What's done in all the capabilities of the medium is what makes all movies great. They are the sum of many parts, not just filmed scripts. And for that, I say that Birdman and The Revenant are two great movies.

 

[Schlosser85]

Shakespeare In Love beating Saving Private Ryan, Gwyneth Paltrow beating Cate Blanchett, and Cuba Gooding Jr. beating Edward Norton in Primal Fear are all laughable jokes.

Cuba Gooding Jr can't act in general.

 

[The Joker]

Cher winning for Moonstruck over Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.

 

[Mysteryman]

Hmm, Toy Story 3 over How to Train Your Dragon.

Big Hero 6 over How to Train Your Dragon 2

Brave over Wreck it Ralph

Sandy Bullock over Meryl Streep as Julia Child and Gabourey Sidibe

I would have Loved it if Brave had won an Oscar for Best Animated Film.

 

[CB Fan]

I would have Loved it if Brave had won an Oscar for Best Animated Film.

It did. I was saying I don't see how it won over Wreck it Ralph.

 

[chamber-music]

Braveheart

The movie tries to portray William Wallace as some sort of righteous savior when he speaks about freedom, but on the battlefield his actions show that he's a stone cold killer with no remorse or empathy for anyone who isn't Scottish. These two different intentions for the character clashed for me and I couldn't root for or relate to Wallace at all. A finely made film, but this conflict makes the movie seem unworthy of a Best Picture and Best Director award.

Braveheart is one of the least historically accurate movies ever made. Much of the film is bs which probably why the characterization is off.