Comments on: Moviedrome #4: Oscar travesties

By: John

John — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:28:05 +0000

also, Whoopie Goldberg beating Loraine Brocco in 1990 and Stanley Kubrick never winning oscars for directing or writing. Plus, Robert De Niro should’ve won best actor for the Deer Hunter, great film

By: John

John — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:12:25 +0000

Neither James Caan, Al Pacino, or Robert Duvall winning best supporting actor in ’72
Rocky beating out Taxi Driver, Network, and All the President’s Men in ’76
Robert Redford, Ordinary People, and Timothy Hutton beating out Scorcese, Raging Bull, and Joe Pesci respectively in ’80
R. Lee Ermy not even getting nominated for best supporting actor for Full Metal Jacket in ’87
Biggest of all time Kevin Costner and Dances with Wolves beating Scorcese and Goodfellas in ’90
Unforgiven beating Scent of a Woman in ’92
Forest Gump beating Pulp Fiction and Shawshank Redemption, Tom Hanks beating Morgan Freeman, Robert Zemekis beating Quentin Tarantino, that fucking old wrinkly jew bag Martin Landau beating Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Robbins not even getting nominated, all in ’94 what a fuckin’ fail
Casino only getting one nomination, Heat not getting any in ’95
Cuba Gooding beating Edward Norton in 96′
1997, unlucky year for LA Confidential and Good Will Hunting, both great, no way Titanic was gonna lose though, solid film
Shakespeare in Love Beating Saving Private Ryan, Robert Bengini beating Edward Norton, American History X only getting one nomination in ’98
2000 unlucky for Traffic, great movie, not quite as epic as Gladiator though, close race
Chicago beating Gangs of New York, Roman Polanski beating Scorcese, Adrian Brody beating Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York losing for best cinematography and original screenplay in ’02
David Carradine not getting nominated for best supporting actor in ’04
2005 scored pretty fair despite what everyone says, Crash was good, very close race
Blood Diamond not winning best picture, or even nominated. Leo’s career best performance, Departed winning was a makeup call for Scorcese in ’06
2007-08 well scored
Having 10 best picture nominees in a year without five good movies, The Blind Side, Avatar, A serious Man, An Education, and Up getting nominated for best picture in ’09

could-be travesties
if Cristoph Waltz doesn’t win best supporting actor, Quentin Tarantino doesn’t win best original screenplay and Director, if any of the above listed films win best picture, Avatar winning anything other than best visual effects.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:02:26 +0000

The fact that Forrest Gump beat The Shawshank Redemption in 1994 is a joke. The story of Shawshank is an uplifting, trying, and almost overwhelming experience that Tim Robbins had to go through to realize his dream. Don’t get me wrong, Tom Hanks was phenomenal as Forrest Gump in the “actor” category, which he won again by the way after winning the year before for Philadelphia. As for the movie as a whole, there is no comparison. And Morgan Freeman narrating throughout Shawshank, and on top of that, the performance that he put in, doesn’t hurt either.

By: meems

meems — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:30:15 +0000

“scorsayssee”

Seeing Scorsese’s name written like this reminds me of a little girl I used to teach whose name was pronounced “Saun-scene-your-ray.” It was spelled: Saunsceneyouray.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:49:05 +0000

Wow. Something’s seriously wrong with Italians. Not as much as the French, though. So the sin is (subconsciously) trying to apply Portuguese rules to Italian names.

Should it be pronounced scorzezee, scorzayzee, scorsezee, scorsayzee, scorsessee, or scorsayssee?

By: D. Fletcher

D. Fletcher — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:49:21 +0000

Actually, Tom, if it was spelled ScoCese, it would be pronounced

Scor-CHes-e.

By: Tom A.

Tom A. — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:57:48 +0000

#1 Saving Pvt. Ryan was a typical Spielberg sappy mess. Shakespeare in Love was the better film, but loses its zip after the first or second viewing.

#9 Agree. Chocolat was a travesty. Not the absolute worst film ever nominated, but there is no explanation why in its year it got in. Just attrocious.

#12 The Maltese Falcon has the most miscast fem fatale in movie history. Mary Astor is hopelessly wrong for the part — but maybe not so hopelessly since she is brilliant solely because once you’ve seen the film four times, nobody else would do.

#35 Agree totally, Mathew.

By: Clark Goble

Clark Goble — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:20:28 +0000

Matthew (#35), have to disagree. I found English Patient one of the most overrated films of the last decade.

I agree (#38) Goodfellas, while an amazing film, is a tad overrated. (If only because it is rated so high) Interestingly Casino, while an inferior film (and perhaps redundant considering he already made Goodfellas), seemed to me to have better pacing.

By: a random John

a random John — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:08:12 +0000

We’ve had this whole discussion and nobody has mentioned how Goodfellas is too long and falls apart the moment it begins to feel too long?

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 05:42:35 +0000

That seems like an aberrant spelling. The correct one, I mean. That, or everyone mispronounces it. As it reads it would be pronounced scorzezee, wouldn’t it? But since it’s always said scorsezee, it’s so very easy to put the c there if you know any Spanish or Portuguese. Or maybe we inappropriately try to impose Spanish and Portuguese rules on an Italian name. Whatever.