Undeserved Oscar Winners

[Donnie Darko]

I'd say the ROTK song winning best original song over the song from "A Mighty Wind."

 

[lime]

Tommy Lee Jones winning for the Fugitive and not Fiennes (Schindler's list)
Helen Hunt win for As goos as it gets and not Kate Winslet for Titanic
Crash winning best picture and not Brokeback Mountain
No Country for old men winning best picture and not Atonement
Slumdog Millionaire win best picture and not Benjamin Button

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Slumdog Millionaire for Cinematography, Director, Original Score and Best Motion Picture. All of those should have gone to The Dark Knight. Which wasn't even nominated. But we all know that.

But, The Oscars are prety much nonsense anyway. Ultimate argument: Hitchcock never got one for Best Director...

 

[Watchman]

But, The Oscars are prety much nonsense anyway. Ultimate argument: Hitchcock never got one for Best Director...

Another example: Stanley Kubrick...

 

[FaT_tONle]

Are you guys serious ^^^ ... Yeah I am thinking I should just give up on the Oscars myself one of these years... it's just such a slow time of the year that time and there is nothing else to follow.

 

[SPIDERMAN117]

Heath Ledger OVER Robert Downey Jr J/k Heath was awesome. He deserved it.

But the only thing about last years that got me mad was Christopher Nolan NOT getting a nom for Best Director. Honestly....without a director there is no technical nor acting nominations. With Christopher Nolan...there would be no Ledger as Joker, or Any of the technical nominations it got.

Not trying to sound bad or anything but Nolan DID deserve a nod for Director.

Thats just my Two Cents

 

[SPIDERMAN117]

Also WTF Martin Scorsese finally winning an Oscar the other year for The Departed. Its really good movie...but Scorsese was due long BEFORE The Departed

 

[Shuley]

Its the best performance, not best overall actor. Rourke was better in The Wrestler than Penn was in Milk. Get it?

Having said that, Rourke has done alot thing else.

Ah gee like what? Domino?

 

[Shuley]

Sean Penn should of won his Oscar for Dead Man Walking, not for Milk.

 

[Heisenberg]

Ah gee like what? Domino?

Seriously?! Body Heat, Diner, Rumble Fish, Barfly, The Pope Of Greenwich Village, Angel Heart...

 

[jmc]

Where do I begin? These are the ones that irk me the most.

First and foremost Crash, possibly the most undeserving Best Picture winner in the last 30 years.

Scorsese's best Director Win for The Departed, don't get me wrong, he's was long overdue to take home the gold but The Departed was nowhere near his best work

Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love getting the nod over Cate Blanchette in Elizabeth.

Russel Crowe for Gladiator, a make up Oscar for his loss for The Insider.

Kate Winslet for The Reader, not only was this another make up Oscar, they gave it to her for the wrong performance, Revolutionary Road was the better role.

In fact any win that is perceived as a 'Make Up' Oscar I consider undeserving.

 

[SPIDERMAN117]

Where do I begin? These are the ones that irk me the most.

First and foremost Crash, possibly the most undeserving Best Picture winner in the last 30 years.

Scorsese's best Director Win for The Departed, don't get me wrong, he's was long overdue to take home the gold but The Departed was nowhere near his best work

Gwyneth Paltrow for Shakespeare in Love getting the nod over Cate Blanchette in Elizabeth.

Russel Crowe for Gladiator, a make up Oscar for his loss for The Insider.

Kate Winslet for The Reader, not only was this another make up Oscar, they gave it to her for the wrong performance, Revolutionary Road was the better role.

In fact any win that is perceived as a 'Make Up' Oscar I consider undeserving.

Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan.

 

[Laderlappen]

Which was a bad year for movies.

I disagree. It was a great year but the academy f'd up in almost every category.

 

[jmc]

Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan.

I don't think Shakespeare in Love winning is nearly as bad as Crash winning.

 

[Kargo Warrior]

Children Of Men and The Dark Knight not winning Cinematography.

American Beauty over The Insider especially now that A.B hasn't aged nearly as well.

Michael Caine over Tom Cruise in Magnolia

Julia Roberts over Ellen Burstin in Requiem For A Dream

Ron Howard for A Beautiful Mind over P.Jackson,Altman and David Lynch.

Slumdog for winning score,cinematography,song,sound mixing and best picture

Morgan Freeman over Thomas Haden Church in Sideways

Alan Arkin over Jackie Earl Haley in Little Children

Tilda Swinton over Amy Ryan in Gone Baby Gone

Ordinary People over The Elephant Man and Raging Bull

This could go on and on and on...there are so many movies and actors that won awards that look like an embarrassment now,even after 1 or 2 years.

 

[Warhammer]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it yet, but Jennifer Hudson winning Best Supporting Actress for Dreamgirls. I'm not saying she can't act because she can, but she won that award mostly due to her singing, because the amount of acting she did was not worthy of the award. Give her a Grammy, not an Oscar. Tell you the truth, her even being nominated and then winning wasn't fair to the others nominated and those actresses in supporting roles that year who weren't nominated.

 

[Wolfwood]

It's been said many times already, but it can't be stated enough. Children of Men got screwed big time.

 

[Gilpesh]

The worst thing to happen to the Oscars is: hindsight.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan... what in God's name were they thinking? To do something unpredictable or stand out, to be "different?"

And Titanic winning all those awards. Didn't deserve Best Picture.

And yeah Crash. I liked it, but Brokeback Mountain was leagues ahead of it. You would think the academy just does these things for the sake of unpredictability.

 

[Dark Victory]

Slumdog Millionaire winning best original song...

Jai Ho? Are you ****ing kidding me?

 

[Spider-Vader]

I can't believe nobody mentioned The Golden Compass beating out Transformers for Best VFX. Say what you will about Bayformers, but the effects were still borderline ground-breaking.

This. Dark Knight not getting nominated while 'The Reader' did which nobody liked &...

Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan.

That as the most undeserved winner. WTF were they thinking when they picked THAT movie over one of the best movies of all time.

Also, Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark & ET not winning. I haven't seen what won instead of SW & Raiders, but Ghandi was good.

 

[Watchman]

Best Picture

How Green Was My Valley over Citizen Kane- although I guess Citizen Kane wasn't as highly reguarded back then as it is today.

My Fair Lady over Dr. Strangelove

Rocky over Taxi Driver and Network

Ordinary People over Raging Bull

Driving Miss Daisy over My Left Foot

Dances with Wolves over Goodfellas

Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption

Titanic over L.A. Confindential

Best Director

Billy Wilder over Alfred Hitchcock in 1963

Tony Richardson over Federico Fellini in 1964

Carol Reed over Stanley Kubrick and Gillio Pontecorvo in 1968

William Friedkin over Stankey Kubrick in 1971

Bob Fosse over Francis Ford Coppola in 1972

John G. Avildsen over Sidney Lumet in 1976

Redford over Lynch and Scorsese in 1981

Stone over Lynch in 1986

Costner over Scorsese in 1990

Zemeckis over Tarantino in 1994

Minghella over the Coen Bros. in 1996

Mendes over Jonze in 1999

Howard over Lynch in 2001

Yeah just some of my thoughts

 

[The Guard]

Halle's for MONSTERS BALL. Apparently there's a magic number of interracial sex scenes it takes to win an Oscar.

Sean Penn gave a much more varied, nuanced and immersive performance in MILK than Rourke did in THE WRESTLER. Penn deserved his Oscar.

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE's Best Picture and damn near everything else. There were much better films. Bleah.

Though I thought MUNICH deserved Best Picture, I actually thought CRASH was a better movie than BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, which was certainly good, but sort of scatterbrained as a film and a concept.

What the hell was wrong with CRASH, exactly?

 

[Spider-Vader]

I thought Crash was okay.

 

[dude stannis]

Heath Ledger OVER Robert Downey Jr J/k Heath was awesome. He deserved it.

I'd wager if Heath didn't die, Downey would've indeed won. It's too bad both movies came out in the same year, I wanted both guys to win.

But the only thing about last years that got me mad was Christopher Nolan NOT getting a nom for Best Director. Honestly....without a director there is no technical nor acting nominations. With Christopher Nolan...there would be no Ledger as Joker, or Any of the technical nominations it got.

Not trying to sound bad or anything but Nolan DID deserve a nod for Director.

Thats just my Two Cents

Respectfully disagree here, sort of, a nom wouldn't have bothered me, but a win would've, if only because of the electronic meddling with Bale's voice, which completely sabotaged his performance. I have other nitpicks, but they're only nitpicks. That said, as long as David Fincher or Danny Boyle had won, a nom would've been fine.

Titanic beating L.A. Confidential. WRONG.
Sean Penn beat Mickey Rourke for playing a gay version of I Am Sam, WRONG.
Daniel Day Lewis beat Viggo Mortensen for basically playing Vince McMahon. WRONG.
Dances with Wolves beat Goodfellas. WRONG.