@@flaggerify should have won best picture for Saving Private Ryan as well. A far better film than Shakespeare in Love, but Weinstein rigged the vote so that SiL would win.
With Weinstein winning, on October 10, 2017, we can now ask the following question without being laughed at / intimidated & threatened by his goon lawyers and PR hatchet-women: Was this Best Picture Oscar contest fixed?
10/10/17: Look at the trouble that Weinstein is in now, being responsible for Hollywood's Hiroshima. Do we now know that is he is capable of doing ANYTHING? Yes. Did he fix this contest?
Saving private ryan. A movie that contains the most realistic battle sequences you will ever see, that contains the most accurate reenactment of the d day landings that you will ever see, contains some of the best cinematography that you will ever see, some of the best directors work you will ever see, some of the best graphics and realistic war brutality that you will ever see, some of the best acting by Tom hanks that you will ever see, one of the greatest scores that you will ever hear... and it lost to a picture starring Gwyneth paltrow
Stuka “Catch Me if You Can is Spielberg’s only good film.” -Indiana Jones Trilogy -Jaws -Close Encounters of The Third Kind -Munich -Bridge of Spies -Lincoln -Jurassic Park -E.T. The Extra Terrestrial -Empire of The Sun -The Color Purple -The Adventures of Tintin -Minority Report I’m pretty sure he has more than one good film.
@@defhardman527 Overrated doesn't always mean it's bad, Saving Private Ryan was a masterpiece, it was robbed. Says no one a film with Vin Diesel is a bullshit. What a coward you are
Saving Private Ryan will go down in history as one the best, most realistic depictions of a war movie In cinematic history. Shakespeare in Love however, will be forgotten.
Countess Romanov you think Saving Private Ryan is boring because it is "long" (it lasts only 169 minutes, it is shorter than a lot of classics) and doesn't have women as main characters? Go watch Feminist Frequency
Kanye should have stormed onstage (despite that he wasn't popular yet) and said, "Ima a really happy for ya! Ima let you finish!" (points to Spielberg) "But Steven Spielberg created one of the greatest movies of all time!"
Agreed, that movie was better than most on this list....I still think Saving Private Ryan would beat it, but they're both amazing movies that still hold up this many decades later.
Notice how the audience didn't give _Shakespeare in Love_ a standing ovation when it won Best Picture, but _Saving Private Ryan_ did when it won Best Director.
Saving private Ryan is so overrated. I can see why Americans would like it since its one of them highly Americanised movies that portrays them as far superior and greater then everybody else. However as a neutral film fan it's pretty immaturely made in my opinion
Watch Saving Private Ryan’s opening scene and say that again, such a realistic portrayal of D-Day and you guys are calling it bad, I lost my great grandfather I never met in World war 2 and watching this movie was horrifying. That tells you this movie is one of the greats
Moviemaster21 If AHX had been nominated and lost, I'd have loved to see Norton storm the stage in character going on an anti-Semitic rant on the Hollywood system. Seriously how did Roberto Benigni win over that? Man, that was a messed up year.
Damn what a jerk, you don't mess with one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Fuck Weinstein, I'm glad Spielberg won Best Director that year. If he didn't won then what the hell was the Academy thinking
Anjenue I agree! That is cringe worthy to watch. Having her to mention Michael Eisner, I wonder how Michael Eisner Felt when he heard about Weinstein’s crimes? Betrayed, I’ll bet.
Fun fact: I did not find this video by looking up “Shakespeare in Love wins Best Picture.” I found it by looking up “Saving Private Ryan loses Best Picture.”
You people are saying that gweneth Paltrow was better than tom hanks on that bridge shotting at that tank with a bullet in his chest?! Im 14 and i cried.
As time goes on, this just looks worse and worse... Saving Private Ryan still hasn't been topped as a war film, and Shakespeare in love, though certainly deserving of its success, has not endured with nearly the same amount of recognition.
I should admit that I haven't seen Shakespeare in Love. Now, I've heard plenty of other opinions, but to judge something I haven't seen is typically against my philosophy, so for that I apologize. I do believe that my point still stands, for most people at least.
20 years later, this still makes no sense. Saving Private Ryan, one of the greatest war epics ever filmed, featuring some of Spielberg’s best work, one of John Williams’s best scores, one of the best performances ever by the legendary Tom Hanks, and a movie that still holds up amazingly well two decades later and often receives day-long TV marathons on Memorial Day and continues to be celebrated as an all time classic......... lost to a romantic comedy that no one even acknowledges anymore. Greatest fuck up in Oscars history. Nothing tops this.
Oh it makes sense the Academy voters are all radical leftwing Democrats and they Hated Private Ryan it was too patriotic for them they also Hate Spielberg he's way too successful for them to handle.
Shakespeare in love was a descent movie with good acting and all, but Saving Private Ryan is one of the most highly regarded war movies of all time. Vets actually had flashbacks when they saw this in the theater, only a true master piece could have accomplished something like that. Saving Private Ryan deserved the Oscar
Saving private Ryan is well overrated in my opinion. It sverige Americanised to make sure all the american soldiers look far superior and greater than everybody else and receive all your sympathy. Meanwhile all the German soldiers are just made out to be far weaker and cowards who just drop dead instantly to a bullet to the foot or even a sneeze by the look of it. Not to mention Spielberg made sure no German soldiers failed your sympathy by making it seem like they were all just evil nazis or something when in fact many of them didn't agree with the nazi regime and just simply had no choice but to be there whether they wanted to or not.
That's why it got direction. To win the best film you need much more than that. I'm not saying Saving Private Ryan didn't deserve it; I actually think it's slightly better than Shakespeare in Love. But being a war film or being realistic, giving "vets" flashbacks and all that aren't great arguments.
I've always remembered one of my 4th grade teachers who told us she'd watched the "SILLY OSCARS" the night before. I just recently did the math and realized it would have been this ceremony. She was a history teacher, she was probably pissed!
I'm still laughing too, because the Academy showed some good taste for once. Shakespeare in Love is a much better film than Saving Private Ryan and was the best of the nominees.
Look, yo, Shakespeare In Love, I'm real happy for you, Im'a let you finish, but Steven Spielberg directed, and produced, and created one of the best movies of all time! One of the best movies of ALL TIME!! *shrugs shoulders, drops microphone* Honestly, where's Kanye when you need him?
Normally i hate interruptions ( cough kanye cough ) but tbh i'd allow it and even join here. Saving Private Ryan was a masterpiece and no one can tell me otherwise.
Amen to everyone saying Saving Private Ryan Should've won. SPR is most definitely the better movie of that year. Though SIL is thoughtful, it clearly has no replay value. SPR has probably the best replay value there is. Wonderful screenplay, amazing characters you would care about, and great dialogue that real soldiers would talk about. People tend to call this movie overrated and say the screenplay is not good, well those people are wrong, because I know some guys in the military, and some WW2 veterans, they say how the soldiers talked in SPR is accurate. And people tend to call SPR a typical war movie. Wrong again, seeing as how this movie truly captured the horror of D-day, and its one of the first two or three war movies that don't glorify war, nope its not a typical war movie. I guess people are just jealous that SPR got more fame than SIL that they just HAVE to try to find something wrong with SPR, and they don't so they just make shit up and say "its boring" or "its a typical war movie" because they can't handle war movies but can handle typical comedy dramas. SIL is by no means original, but that doesn't mean its bad. It is a good movie, but if the Academy award was gonna choose a period film for best picture besides the War Epic, then "Elizabeth" most definitely should've been the better choice. It reminds me of people saying "Dances with Wolves" is better than "Goodfellas" when clearly Goodfellas is better. And I'm not just saying that because its a gangster film, seriously crime genre is one of the greatest genres out there and it REALLY needs to make a comeback in films.
Not that I'm defending Shakespeare in Love (I think Saving Private Ryan was far better), but I think this was the Academy's attempt at acknowledging other films. Last time Spielberg made a film of this magnitude (Schindler's List), it ended up dominating during the award season, as was the case this year. I still think Saving Private Ryan should have won.
Okay, after seeing Shakespeare in Love again, I'll admit that I have been way too hard on it. It is a cute, fun, little romantic movie with some great writing, excellent acting, luscious sets, gorgeous period costumes and an excellent musical score. But it still shouldn't have won Best Picture over Saving Private Ryan.
I have seen "Saving Private Ryan", "Thin Red Line", and "Shakespeare in Love." All three are good movies, but "Saving Private Ryan" was what hit home the hardest. The film (and "Thin Red Line") did a realistic portrayal of the horrors of WWII. Spielberg also managed to show the world what the most horrific and brutal battle in the war was like. He showed that in a few short seconds, an entire boat of men were cut down to ribbons. To me, the film struck me as Oscar-worthy because of the profound effect it would leave on the audience and throughout film history. It's powerful in its message, and though some would call it patriotic, the film also shows the capacity for hatred on both sides in slight nuances that most would gloss over. "Shakespeare in Love," is in its own right, a good film. I enjoyed it, it was funny, comedic and light hearted. But did it give off a vibe of being Oscar-worthy? No. Not a chance. A fictionalised story of Shakespeare, winning best picture over one of the most brutal portrayals of WWII to date is just absurd. Furthermore, Paltrow beating Blanchett for best actress? Paltrow playing a fictional love interest, beating Blanchett's stellar performance of Queen Elizabeth during one of England's most tumultuous eras.'' A good indicator of an Oscar calibre movie is one that stands the test of time, and holds up to societal expectations, years after its release. SPR is still talked about, while SiL has faded into obscurity.
This win shows how much Harvey Weinsten had pull in Hollywood. I like the movie, it is extremely well done, but people still talk about "Saving Private Ryan." It is shown at every high school I have worked at in my teaching career. That opening scene is one of the most memorable ones I've seen in my movie watching life time.
I never saw Shakespeare in Love but there’s no way it can be better than Saving Private Ryan. That movie is filled with amazing cinematography, acting, character interactions, editing, visuals, sets and the most violsnt and brutal portrayal of war and how truly awful it is.
No, Saving Private Ryan was way better. Which is why Spielberg won best director. Harvey Weinstein is a shady bastard but he was good at Hollywood Politics. He was an aggressive bully who led a campaign that swept Hollywood and somehow got this film the Oscar. One of the biggest debacles in the history of the academy.
Saving Private Ryan is the indisputably better film, but it really is unfortunate that Shakespeare in Love will be remembered as one of the biggest upsets in Oscars history and not the film it is in its own right. It’s charming, funny, intelligent, and just such a well-rounded, wonderful film. It’s definitely more of a crowd pleaser which is probably why it had the edge over Saving Private Ryan. That and Harvey Weinstein’s relentless campaign.
Worst oscar winners shakesphere in love Me: yeah that sounds like a best picture winner. What did it win over? Some guy: nothing signifigant. Well,besides saving private ryan. Me:(spit take) What!? Why would they pick that over saving private ryan? Thats like the 23rd highest rated film of all time isnt it?
I love Shakespeare in Love. Personally it's one of my favorite romance movies...but Saving Private Ryan is definitely the better film, hands down. Everyone knows it.
If Saving Private Ryan won, it would have been the second time that Harrison Ford presented the Best Picture Oscar to a Steven Spielberg movie. Because he did that 5 years earlier to Schindler's List.
you can hear him grit his teeth as he announces it. one of the worst decisions ever. also they gave the best actress to Gwenneth doing a lame british accent over cate doing a fantastic one. WORST ROBBERY EVER
Guys don't be surprised. It's the same moronic Academy that said Star Wars, Fargo, Brokeback Mountain, Goodfellas etc did not deserve Best Picture. Saving Private Ryan will ALWAYS be better than Shakespeare in Love.
Nameless Paladin Clearly only to you and maybe a few blind folk... You know what, never mind, even a blind person would enjoy star wars over that horse shite.
Yeezus... Um... Annie Hall is almost universally recognised as the greatest romantic comedy ever made. In fact a lot of people, including myself, feel that its a better film than star wars.
Such bulls***!!!! Everyone know saving private ryan deserved that darn Oscar more then any of those nominations!!!!! Not to mention the scum that produced that rust bucket of a "film."
Nominees 1 truman show 2 American history x 3 thin red line 4 life is beautiful 5 saving private ryan. Winner Saving private ryan They gave Oscar to the movie which even shouldn't have been nominated
It I still sad that hurt locker did won best picture an not saving private ray mist is really sad, the hurt locker was a good war film but saving private ryan as a war film deserves to be remembered for ever and it deserved the best picture not that piece of shit of Shakespeare with love
The funny thing is that people hate on this movie because it beat Saving Private Ryan but I remember watching it without knowing that it had won Best Picture when I was 12 and hating it from start to finish. You can only imagine my reaction when I found out!
Let's see what happened in the aftermath: Steven Spielberg - Continues to be respected among the filmmaking circle by nearly everybody. While his films have ups and downs, he still remains as one of the most successful directors. Harvey Weinstein - Need I say more...?
Am I the only one who LOVED Shakespeare In Love and thought it deserved to win ? As much as I loved Saving Private Ryan, I think it got its share - a best director win, and Spielberg already had a bunch of Oscars..Shakespeare In Love is an excellently acted and brilliantly written film. I feel sad because people have degraded its quality just as it won an award which they thought SPR should've won because they thought it was better...
@@geetraldinha Harvey was only the producer of the film..I don't care about that lardass...I appreciate the effort by the "creators" of the films- the directors, writers, actors..Just coz they won over Saving Private Ryan and Fargo doesn't make them bad..Yes I know, if not the campaigning, they wouldn't have stood a chance, but both of them are masterpieces..I don't understand the fact that if the producer of the movie is a predator and the same good film wins over another good film, does it become bad?! The producer does not have any creative contribution in the film, he only publicizes and promotes it..."It's not a movie by a predator (Harvey)", It's by John Madden/ Anthony Minghella..they brought those beautiful ideas to life and they made the film awesome..not that rapist...Just coz these films were engulfed in controversy due to a rapist producer and winning over other loved films, the audience has cheapened their quality...
I agree. "The Truman Show" was nominated for: -Best Supporting Actor (Ed Harris) -Best Director (Peter Weir) -Best Screenplay Written (Andrew Nicol). It sadly didn't win a single award. But what's more outrageous is that Jim Carrey wasn't even nominated for Best Actor (he won the Golden Globe for that film)
Seriously? There was only one movie to win this Saving Private Ryan!!! One of the best movies I've ever seen! Thank you for this masterpiece Steven Spielberg!
The way the film tackled class division with homour and truth and dash it with poetry is amazing. The chemistry between Gwyneth and Fiennes electrifies the screen while Judi Dench is simply a scene-stealer. The finale where Viola bids goodbye to Will and Will writes another play inspired by Viola's fatal journey and eventual survival is clever particularly when it becomes the basis for another Shakespeare play. Without a doubt, Saving Private Ryan is a superb war movie. But how often can moviegoers like me who do not read Shakespeare be given a chance to touched and entertained, if not by his writings but at least by an idea of how he wrote them.
Harrison Ford Oscar reads: Best Picture 1998 Shakespeare in Love Best Director 2002 Roman Polanski Looks like Academy trusts him with reading controversial decisions
Saving Private Ryan: Dazzlingly realistic; erupts with emotion and power. The Thin Red Line: Full of life, spirit, and such grace; the power of man's will to live, even in the darkest of times Case in point...these two are (in my opinion) much better, quality movies. Hate? Or Appreciate?
Yes, Saving Private Ryan should have won, in my opinion. But still: Shakespeare in Love is NOT a bad movie! The cast is wonderful (yeah, Paltrow still shouldn't have won Best Actress), the story is original and the screenplay is great. It's okay to say that SPR should have won, but to call SIL a terrible movie just because it beat SPR is stupid.
Agreed. I've never watched both movies completely but I think they're both perfect. And for me, i'm glad Shakespeare took it in opinion. I plan on becoming an actor full-time and I want to try branching out in every genre out there. So yeah, this movie is a prime example on why I want to pursue that path.
Yeah. If it wasn't "Saving Private Ryan", then "Life is Beautiful" could've been good as well. But it already won for "Best Foreign Language Film" that night, so...I think that winning also for "Best Picture" could've been a little "pretencious" for Hollywood...
Honnestly, I see four of the five nominated films, Shakespeare in Love, Life Is Beautiful, Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line... My top would be 1. Life Is Beautiful, 2. Saving Private Ryan, 2. The Thin Red Line, 4. Elizabeth, 5. Shakespeare in Love... I didn't see Elizabeth, but even so, Shakespeare in Love landed on the last place... For 21 years, I didn't understand how the hell „Shakespeare in Love” had won the Best Picture against „Life Is Beautiful” and „Saving Private Ryan”... After Harvey Weinstein's scandal and conviction, I finally got it...
NICE:When Steven Spielberg won Best Director,everyone in the auditorium gave him a standing ovation.But when Shakespeare in Love won best picture,only roughly half the auditorium stood up.Further proof that Saving Private Ryan is the best picture that year.
For me this list should have been: Elizabeth Life is Beautiful Saving Private Ryan Shakespeare in Love The Thin Red Line The Truman Show Gods and Monsters American History X Primary Colors A Simple Plan
Ford wanted to give the Oscar to Spielberg so badly.
Sam Palma Well, he did it in 1994. When he won for 'Schindler's list'
He won best director for Ryan.
@@flaggerify should have won best picture for Saving Private Ryan as well. A far better film than Shakespeare in Love, but Weinstein rigged the vote so that SiL would win.
if only he presented best director that year
@@Frserthegreenengine NO. THE THIN RED LINE should.
You can see the dissepointment in Harrisons eyes
Herman Thygesen no I can't
I noticed that myself
Like he's seen any of these movies lol
Maybe he knew himself...
But he always looks dissapointed
Harrison Ford can't believe what he is reading.
With Weinstein winning, on October 10, 2017, we can now ask the following question without being laughed at / intimidated & threatened by his goon lawyers and PR hatchet-women: Was this Best Picture Oscar contest fixed?
I can't believe it either
War Emblem I’m as sure of that as I am that JFK was killed because of the mafia, the guys who got him elected in the first place.
Neither can we
no
harrison face is always like that.
" grumpy,irritating,dont care,impatient " typical style
This film won over both Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line. HOW!?
F Santo what about life is beautiful????
The Academy voters has the opinion and so do I.
@F Santo That's fake news.
@F Santo that's False.
Harvey Weinstein
We're is Kanye when you need him
5 years
"Harvey, am real happy for you. Imma let you finish, but Saving Private Ryan is one of the greatest movies of all time!!"
Eminem feat. Lil Wayne - No Love
1999: The Year The Weinsteins bought The Oscars.
especially that life is beautiful guy winning for vest actor, since the movie was distributed by weinstein. ugh
10/10/17: Look at the trouble that Weinstein is in now, being responsible for Hollywood's Hiroshima. Do we now know that is he is capable of doing ANYTHING? Yes. Did he fix this contest?
hate me but to me Life is Beautiful is a brilliant movie which would have deserved the Oscar more than SIL
@@waremblem3405 yes he did. So many Oscars questionable now that his moves are revealed.
Don’t hate the gangster, hate the game.
Saving private ryan. A movie that contains the most realistic battle sequences you will ever see, that contains the most accurate reenactment of the d day landings that you will ever see, contains some of the best cinematography that you will ever see, some of the best directors work you will ever see, some of the best graphics and realistic war brutality that you will ever see, some of the best acting by Tom hanks that you will ever see, one of the greatest scores that you will ever hear... and it lost to a picture starring Gwyneth paltrow
only male cast movie doesn't deserve anyhting.
Stuka “Catch Me if You Can is Spielberg’s only good film.”
-Indiana Jones Trilogy
-Jaws
-Close Encounters of The Third Kind
-Munich
-Bridge of Spies
-Lincoln
-Jurassic Park
-E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
-Empire of The Sun
-The Color Purple
-The Adventures of Tintin
-Minority Report
I’m pretty sure he has more than one good film.
Jaws being in your list is enough, a movie of a fucking shark, overrated.
Stuka I fail to see how a film is overrated purely because it’s about a shark.
Yeah, a great movie can't be about a fucking shark or dinosaurs.
Harrisons face when he opened the envelope ;)
He's like "Are you (censored) kiddng me?"
Either he was disappointed he wasn’t able to give an Oscar to Spielberg again, or he knew as well...
A film with vin diesel is a bullshit....great victory for shakespeare in love. Saving private ryan is a overrated film.
@@defhardman527 - says nobody
@@defhardman527 Overrated doesn't always mean it's bad, Saving Private Ryan was a masterpiece, it was robbed. Says no one a film with Vin Diesel is a bullshit. What a coward you are
Saving private ryan should have won. And American history x and the Truman show should have been nominated.
The Truman Show should've won, it's way better than any of those movies.
they shouldn't give Oscars to Harvey Weinstein
rybrentmannftw yeah I can’t believe the Truman show wasn’t nominated
A movie with vin diesel is a bullshit....great victory for shakespeare in love
American history X was the best movie of 1998 and one of the best ever
Saving Private Ryan will go down in history as one the best, most realistic depictions of a war movie In cinematic history. Shakespeare in Love however, will be forgotten.
No shit
Until seeing this video i never heard of it... Ive seen spr 6 times
Martin Scorsese called THE THIN RED LINE, one of the best movies of the decade, Gene Siskel called it his favorite war movie, i have never seen it
Saving Private Ryan is boring, too long, one dimentional movie, only male cast like always from Spielberg.
Countess Romanov you think Saving Private Ryan is boring because it is "long" (it lasts only 169 minutes, it is shorter than a lot of classics) and doesn't have women as main characters? Go watch Feminist Frequency
Kanye should have stormed onstage (despite that he wasn't popular yet) and said,
"Ima a really happy for ya! Ima let you finish!" (points to Spielberg) "But Steven Spielberg created one of the greatest movies of all time!"
Lol where was Kanye when we really needed him
VEry Funny
HAhahahahahaha xD
You forgot to finish his sentence: "....of ALL TIME!" :D
Axel H 😂😂he was born too late for this world.
the truman show was robbed of a nominaiton
agreed
Agreed, that movie was better than most on this list....I still think Saving Private Ryan would beat it, but they're both amazing movies that still hold up this many decades later.
so was fight club
@@cucuraki5913 Fight Club didn't come out that year
@@Kino-xe6fr Next year for Fall 1999, Fight Club soars in theaters for Disney and earned a Oscar nod
for sound editing in 2000.
Notice how the audience didn't give _Shakespeare in Love_ a standing ovation when it won Best Picture, but _Saving Private Ryan_ did when it won Best Director.
Or like when Reborto Benini won best actor
@@daftpunkneedstoreturn545 He wouldn’t have gotten a standing ovation if he didn’t act like he was on crack.
Saving private Ryan is so overrated. I can see why Americans would like it since its one of them highly Americanised movies that portrays them as far superior and greater then everybody else. However as a neutral film fan it's pretty immaturely made in my opinion
@@FreeThinkAlways It is overrated. That year The Thin Red Line and The Truman Show was much better.
@@FreeThinkAlways Even though Spielberg is a liberal
Saving Private Ryan was robbed
Bad movie
Very bad movie
That is fax
Watch Saving Private Ryan’s opening scene and say that again, such a realistic portrayal of D-Day and you guys are calling it bad, I lost my great grandfather I never met in World war 2 and watching this movie was horrifying. That tells you this movie is one of the greats
Moaz Defasi stfu it was pretty good
A) Saving Private Ryan should have won.
B) American History X should have been nominated.
Why the F#@k
Alberto Arras Because both movies are better than this
Moviemaster21 If AHX had been nominated and lost, I'd have loved to see Norton storm the stage in character going on an anti-Semitic rant on the Hollywood system. Seriously how did Roberto Benigni win over that? Man, that was a messed up year.
***** Look everyone, this guy wants attention! He has picked a totally original name and pic and posts on 4chan. le epic memes!
+Goncas RC wrong year
Weinstein allegedly shoved his Oscar in Steven Spielberg's face at one of the after-parties. Enough said.
@Ryan Akwar So I've read.
Damn what a jerk, you don't mess with one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. Fuck Weinstein, I'm glad Spielberg won Best Director that year. If he didn't won then what the hell was the Academy thinking
and today, he's in jail... and Spielberg is free as bird
@@jamescesari Just what I was thinking. Weinstein should've refrained from shoving something else in people's -- namely aspiring actress's -- faces.
He also snubbed the mic from Zwick on stage! How do you not let Edward Zwick speak?
Shakespeare in Love? Is this the Oscars or the Teen Choice Awards?
Lol
Harvey Chose Award
I don't think even Teens enjoyed this
I think it's the WeinsTEEN Choice Awards lol
@@kay_girl_97 Let's just called this The WeinsTEEN Choice Awards lol
Who’s here after Harvey was found guilty? Serves that slimeball right
True cringe-fest to watch...I had to do it...
Anjenue I agree! That is cringe worthy to watch. Having her to mention Michael Eisner, I wonder how Michael Eisner Felt when he heard about Weinstein’s crimes? Betrayed, I’ll bet.
Dont call him that its a sin
2016 me: can't believe Shakespeare in love won best picture
2020 me: I can't believe this guy of all people hacked the oscars.
Don't worry. He's banned.
@@wolfgangamadeusmozart4666 omg look it’s mozart
Hacked the Oscars?
Cant understand..
Fun fact: I did not find this video by looking up “Shakespeare in Love wins Best Picture.” I found it by looking up “Saving Private Ryan loses Best Picture.”
Even UA-cam was dissapointied by this undeserving win of all time in Oscar history
Fun fact: I found it by looking up "Shakespeare in Love robbed Oscar".
Their a pention for it
Saving Private Ryan was absolutely ROBBED
You people are saying that gweneth Paltrow was better than tom hanks on that bridge shotting at that tank with a bullet in his chest?! Im 14 and i cried.
RIP logic. You had to be a little kid to think that winning Best Picture means that a performance is better than other.
As time goes on, this just looks worse and worse... Saving Private Ryan still hasn't been topped as a war film, and Shakespeare in love, though certainly deserving of its success, has not endured with nearly the same amount of recognition.
I should admit that I haven't seen Shakespeare in Love. Now, I've heard plenty of other opinions, but to judge something I haven't seen is typically against my philosophy, so for that I apologize.
I do believe that my point still stands, for most people at least.
@@HandsOfCinderblock I like Inglourious Basterds more than Saving Private Ryan. But I do agree that Saving Private Ryan has never been topped.
I've seen both Shakespeare in Love and Saving Private Ryan and Saving Private Ryan is a much superior movie.
I believe that 1917 is a great war film as well.
@@SymphonyBrahms it's good but it's still a kids movie in comparison to Saving Private Ryan
Best director- SPR
Best cinematographer- SPR
Best editor- SPR
Best sound mixer- SPR
Best sound editor- SPR
Best film- NOPE!
Life is Beautiful was robbed
He pronounced Saving Private Ryan wrong!
I don’t hear it
20 years later, this still makes no sense.
Saving Private Ryan, one of the greatest war epics ever filmed, featuring some of Spielberg’s best work, one of John Williams’s best scores, one of the best performances ever by the legendary Tom Hanks, and a movie that still holds up amazingly well two decades later and often receives day-long TV marathons on Memorial Day and continues to be celebrated as an all time classic......... lost to a romantic comedy that no one even acknowledges anymore.
Greatest fuck up in Oscars history. Nothing tops this.
relax maybe.
Oh it makes sense the Academy voters are all radical leftwing Democrats and they Hated Private Ryan it was too patriotic for them they also Hate Spielberg he's way too successful for them to handle.
Harvey that's all
Yup, see what that Weinstein money can buy. Saving Private Ryan indeed was the Best Picture.
SPR was just another war film 💤
“Harvey I’mma let you finish but saving private ryan is one of the best films of all time! OF ALL TIME!”
Rlol
Shakespeare in love was a descent movie with good acting and all, but Saving Private Ryan is one of the most highly regarded war movies of all time. Vets actually had flashbacks when they saw this in the theater, only a true master piece could have accomplished something like that. Saving Private Ryan deserved the Oscar
Life is beautiful is nothing to sneeze at either
I’d give it to Thin Red Line long before I’d give it to Shakespeare in Love either
Saving private Ryan is well overrated in my opinion. It sverige Americanised to make sure all the american soldiers look far superior and greater than everybody else and receive all your sympathy. Meanwhile all the German soldiers are just made out to be far weaker and cowards who just drop dead instantly to a bullet to the foot or even a sneeze by the look of it. Not to mention Spielberg made sure no German soldiers failed your sympathy by making it seem like they were all just evil nazis or something when in fact many of them didn't agree with the nazi regime and just simply had no choice but to be there whether they wanted to or not.
That's why it got direction. To win the best film you need much more than that. I'm not saying Saving Private Ryan didn't deserve it; I actually think it's slightly better than Shakespeare in Love. But being a war film or being realistic, giving "vets" flashbacks and all that aren't great arguments.
Shut your idiotic, disgusting mouth. Your Nazi sympathising is showing. Idiot!
@@FreeThinkAlways
I've always remembered one of my 4th grade teachers who told us she'd watched the "SILLY OSCARS" the night before. I just recently did the math and realized it would have been this ceremony. She was a history teacher, she was probably pissed!
I can tell that Harrison Ford sounded disappointed..
As much as I love this movie it was not better than Saving Private Ryan.
It's not even better than Prince of Egypt, WHICH WASN'T EVEN NOMINATED NEED I REMIND YOU.
Yeah, it was a great movie but winning Best Picture against another better masterpiece was bullshit
Me fascino esta pelicula,para mi estuvo Bien El oscar
Ford looks sad after he reads the winner. I don't blame him. One of the worst wins ever.
How can it win for
D-Day (Normandy Landing) Film Directed By Steven Spielberg
This film won a oscar for best picture?
Lol, I'am still laughing.
lol War movies aren't allowed to win best picture, its the liberal academy remember?
Even so, there was other better films that could have won.
"War movies aren't allowed to win best picture"? Are about "The Hurt Locker"?
I'm still laughing too, because the Academy showed some good taste for once.
Shakespeare in Love is a much better film than Saving Private Ryan and was the best of the nominees.
Gregory E "Shakespeare in Love is a much better film than Saving Private Ryan". What? Are you serious?
I don't care what anyone says, but Saving Private Ryan winning Best Director is enough to prove it was the real Best Picture winner of the night.
WatchMojo brought me here.
Bruce Leeroy me too:-)
soyhard deren me three
Me four
Whitney Pyant make it five.
Sean Hudson Six.
I like Shakespeare in Love. I really do. I own it. But no way should it have beaten Ryan.
Look, yo, Shakespeare In Love, I'm real happy for you, Im'a let you finish, but Steven Spielberg directed, and produced, and created one of the best movies of all time! One of the best movies of ALL TIME!! *shrugs shoulders, drops microphone* Honestly, where's Kanye when you need him?
Normally i hate interruptions ( cough kanye cough ) but tbh i'd allow it and even join here. Saving Private Ryan was a masterpiece and no one can tell me otherwise.
@@salmabenhamida4570 I absolutely agree with you
Ryan was brilliant
Shakespeare was good
This decision was unhappy and unfair
Ryan was brilliant
Beautiful was brilliant
Red line was great
Shakespeare was good
Ryan was a shitty movie.
Amen to everyone saying Saving Private Ryan Should've won. SPR is most definitely the better movie of that year.
Though SIL is thoughtful, it clearly has no replay value. SPR has probably the best replay value there is. Wonderful screenplay, amazing characters you would care about, and great dialogue that real soldiers would talk about. People tend to call this movie overrated and say the screenplay is not good, well those people are wrong, because I know some guys in the military, and some WW2 veterans, they say how the soldiers talked in SPR is accurate.
And people tend to call SPR a typical war movie. Wrong again, seeing as how this movie truly captured the horror of D-day, and its one of the first two or three war movies that don't glorify war, nope its not a typical war movie.
I guess people are just jealous that SPR got more fame than SIL that they just HAVE to try to find something wrong with SPR, and they don't so they just make shit up and say "its boring" or "its a typical war movie" because they can't handle war movies but can handle typical comedy dramas.
SIL is by no means original, but that doesn't mean its bad. It is a good movie, but if the Academy award was gonna choose a period film for best picture besides the War Epic, then "Elizabeth" most definitely should've been the better choice.
It reminds me of people saying "Dances with Wolves" is better than "Goodfellas" when clearly Goodfellas is better. And I'm not just saying that because its a gangster film, seriously crime genre is one of the greatest genres out there and it REALLY needs to make a comeback in films.
But the thing is Dances with Wolves was amazing Shakespeare in love was garbage
Thin Red Line was better then Elizabeth.
No matter what, saving private Ryan is literally going to be watched even after 1000 years ❤️❤️
Life is beautiful deserves oscar and became first oscar
biggest oscar mistake ever.
VP S what about Ordinary people wining over Raging Bull,Tess and the Elefant man.👎😔😒😬
@@idanielblake2100 don't forget, ordinary people also won over the shining and empire strikes back
D4rth Skywalk3r And Empire Strikes Back wasn’t nominated!
Not that I'm defending Shakespeare in Love (I think Saving Private Ryan was far better), but I think this was the Academy's attempt at acknowledging other films. Last time Spielberg made a film of this magnitude (Schindler's List), it ended up dominating during the award season, as was the case this year. I still think Saving Private Ryan should have won.
Okay, after seeing Shakespeare in Love again, I'll admit that I have been way too hard on it. It is a cute, fun, little romantic movie with some great writing, excellent acting, luscious sets, gorgeous period costumes and an excellent musical score. But it still shouldn't have won Best Picture over Saving Private Ryan.
Shouldn’t have won over Saving Private Ryan, but it’s still such a wonderful film.
"wait a minute, there's been a mistake. Saving Private Ryan, you guys won best picture. Come on up. This is not a joke."
At 2:45 Weinstein gives her the "you better let me talk" look, and then she quickly introduces him even if the other guy was about to talk.
I have seen "Saving Private Ryan", "Thin Red Line", and "Shakespeare in Love." All three are good movies, but "Saving Private Ryan" was what hit home the hardest. The film (and "Thin Red Line") did a realistic portrayal of the horrors of WWII. Spielberg also managed to show the world what the most horrific and brutal battle in the war was like. He showed that in a few short seconds, an entire boat of men were cut down to ribbons.
To me, the film struck me as Oscar-worthy because of the profound effect it would leave on the audience and throughout film history. It's powerful in its message, and though some would call it patriotic, the film also shows the capacity for hatred on both sides in slight nuances that most would gloss over.
"Shakespeare in Love," is in its own right, a good film. I enjoyed it, it was funny, comedic and light hearted. But did it give off a vibe of being Oscar-worthy? No. Not a chance.
A fictionalised story of Shakespeare, winning best picture over one of the most brutal portrayals of WWII to date is just absurd.
Furthermore, Paltrow beating Blanchett for best actress? Paltrow playing a fictional love interest, beating Blanchett's stellar performance of Queen Elizabeth during one of England's most tumultuous eras.''
A good indicator of an Oscar calibre movie is one that stands the test of time, and holds up to societal expectations, years after its release. SPR is still talked about, while SiL has faded into obscurity.
This win shows how much Harvey Weinsten had pull in Hollywood. I like the movie, it is extremely well done, but people still talk about "Saving Private Ryan." It is shown at every high school I have worked at in my teaching career. That opening scene is one of the most memorable ones I've seen in my movie watching life time.
Like most Best Picture winners, it's good, but not THAT good.
I never saw Shakespeare in Love but there’s no way it can be better than Saving Private Ryan. That movie is filled with amazing cinematography, acting, character interactions, editing, visuals, sets and the most violsnt and brutal portrayal of war and how truly awful it is.
No, Saving Private Ryan was way better. Which is why Spielberg won best director. Harvey Weinstein is a shady bastard but he was good at Hollywood Politics. He was an aggressive bully who led a campaign that swept Hollywood and somehow got this film the Oscar. One of the biggest debacles in the history of the academy.
Saving Private Ryan is the indisputably better film, but it really is unfortunate that Shakespeare in Love will be remembered as one of the biggest upsets in Oscars history and not the film it is in its own right. It’s charming, funny, intelligent, and just such a well-rounded, wonderful film. It’s definitely more of a crowd pleaser which is probably why it had the edge over Saving Private Ryan. That and Harvey Weinstein’s relentless campaign.
Maybe actually watch it before forming an opinion you moron. Shakespeare in Love is one of my favorite films.
Worst oscar winners shakesphere in love
Me: yeah that sounds like a best picture winner. What did it win over?
Some guy: nothing signifigant. Well,besides saving private ryan.
Me:(spit take) What!? Why would they pick that over saving private ryan? Thats like the 23rd highest rated film of all time isnt it?
I love Shakespeare in Love. Personally it's one of my favorite romance movies...but Saving Private Ryan is definitely the better film, hands down. Everyone knows it.
Naaaaaahh. SPR is typical Spielberg with an absolutely unreal story peg that just happens to have a lot of limbs getting blown off.
@@tomshea8382you’re entitled to your incorrect opinion.
@@mmcrevey Piss up a rope, cheese dick.
for me Shakespeare in Loves is one of the greatest movies of all time and definitely the best of 1998
I like Shakespeare in Love, but do I think it deserved the win over Saving Private Ryan, HELL NO!
Why not?
Sean Hudson
have you seen Saving Private Ryan?
SPR is my second favorite film, next to Shawshank.
I'm sorry dude I misread that.
Sean Hudson
np
This still kills me...Saving Private Ryan was by far better. And one of the best War Movies ever.
Not just best war movies...one of the best movies in general
Yes. The Academy of Motion Pictures or whatever it's called got this VERY WRONG.
0:41 you can’t force me to give you that Oscar Harvey Weinstein
If Saving Private Ryan won, it would have been the second time that Harrison Ford presented the Best Picture Oscar to a Steven Spielberg movie. Because he did that 5 years earlier to Schindler's List.
you can hear him grit his teeth as he announces it. one of the worst decisions ever. also they gave the best actress to Gwenneth doing a lame british accent over cate doing a fantastic one. WORST ROBBERY EVER
Shakespeare in love is good. But Saving Private Ryan is a MASTERPIECE.
Agreed.
Biggest robbery in Oscar history
Guys don't be surprised. It's the same moronic Academy that said Star Wars, Fargo, Brokeback Mountain, Goodfellas etc did not deserve Best Picture. Saving Private Ryan will ALWAYS be better than Shakespeare in Love.
well of coarse
epicman004 Star Wars, indeed, did not deserve to win best picture. Annie Hall was the better film.
Nameless Paladin Clearly only to you and maybe a few blind folk... You know what, never mind, even a blind person would enjoy star wars over that horse shite.
Yeezus... Um... Annie Hall is almost universally recognised as the greatest romantic comedy ever made. In fact a lot of people, including myself, feel that its a better film than star wars.
epicman004 and Pulp Fiction
And to think Shakespeare in love was forgotten all these years and people remember saving private Ryan and thin red line lol
Maybe thats why it won
Harvey Wienstein bought that Oscar.
Saving Private Ryan and Thin Red Line were way better movies.
Even Elizabeth was better.
Life Is Beautiful was also another possible winner and The Truman Show and robbed of a nomination
Such bulls***!!!! Everyone know saving private ryan deserved that darn Oscar more then any of those nominations!!!!! Not to mention the scum that produced that rust bucket of a "film."
A movie with vin diesel is a total bullshit....great victory for shakespeare in love...
@@defhardman527 it's not a great victory. Saving Private Ryan should've won. And Vin Diesel is awesome!
Nominees
1 truman show
2 American history x
3 thin red line
4 life is beautiful
5 saving private ryan.
Winner
Saving private ryan
They gave Oscar to the movie which even shouldn't have been nominated
How the hell did Shakespeare in love beat Saving Private Ryan in both the Oscars and the Baftas?
How? He just got convicted today....
Shakespeare in Love winning at BAFTA's was so inevitable. I mean forget Oscars, SIL is pure BAFTA-bait.
Weinstein bribed voters.
"Oh! She is about to get it on with Shake-a-speare!"
It I still sad that hurt locker did won best picture an not saving private ray mist is really sad, the hurt locker was a good war film but saving private ryan as a war film deserves to be remembered for ever and it deserved the best picture not that piece of shit of Shakespeare with love
That's hilariously pathetic
bmaster461603 just like Leonardo's nomination streak
Kyle Demoderpifnlikskin His movie streak, however, says otherwise.
+Kyle Demoderpifnlikskin not really. Are you saying he's bad because that would also be hilarious.
I'm with you ;-) - "Shakespeare in Love" is such a breath of fresh air whenever I see it, and its amazing it won Best Picture
sarahbgln FUCK OFF SAVING PRIVATE RYAN SHOULD WON
Jonathan Gros
No!
To this day this is considered one of the most undeserved Best Picture Academy Awards of all time, right next to Traffic.
Traffic did not win Best Picture. It lost to Gladiator.
Shit, I meant Crash, I wrote the wrong title. I was thinking about cars and wrote traffic... I need to not drink when I post comments.
Underrated movie, but who deserved more? in all time? The Godfather?
Umm..."Traffic" didn't win Best Picture. It lost to "Gladiator".
PvtGermanWagz Yes how the hell did Crash win over Brokeback?
So lets see, "Saving Private Ryan" and "The Thin Red Line." Two of the best war movies ever made, both lost to this shit? Makes perfect sense...
Revory Hacksaw Ridge, another great war movie that should've won, was cheated this year with that Moonlight crap.
Not only that, but American History X and The Truman Show were not even nominated
thank you for mentioning The Thin Red Line, it doesn't get enough recognition in this comment section
@@cam-h5263 I personally believe The Thin Red Line was the best film of the year. Too underrated!
@@Roareyknocks I couldn't agree more ;)
The Oscars messed up big time
The funny thing is that people hate on this movie because it beat Saving Private Ryan but I remember watching it without knowing that it had won Best Picture when I was 12 and hating it from start to finish. You can only imagine my reaction when I found out!
Having watched Saving Private Ryan, I can say that that is one of the best war films of all time and certainly should have won Best Picture.
This win proved how sold out Academy is
Shakespeare in Love is an amazing film! It doesn't have to be guns and violence all the time!
Were they on crack??? Saving private ryan is one of the best movies ever made!
Let's see what happened in the aftermath:
Steven Spielberg - Continues to be respected among the filmmaking circle by nearly everybody. While his films have ups and downs, he still remains as one of the most successful directors.
Harvey Weinstein - Need I say more...?
Am I the only one who LOVED Shakespeare In Love and thought it deserved to win ? As much as I loved Saving Private Ryan, I think it got its share - a best director win, and Spielberg already had a bunch of Oscars..Shakespeare In Love is an excellently acted and brilliantly written film. I feel sad because people have degraded its quality just as it won an award which they thought SPR should've won because they thought it was better...
Yes you are. Congrats. Especially it's a movie by a predator.... double congrats
@@geetraldinha Harvey was only the producer of the film..I don't care about that lardass...I appreciate the effort by the "creators" of the films- the directors, writers, actors..Just coz they won over Saving Private Ryan and Fargo doesn't make them bad..Yes I know, if not the campaigning, they wouldn't have stood a chance, but both of them are masterpieces..I don't understand the fact that if the producer of the movie is a predator and the same good film wins over another good film, does it become bad?! The producer does not have any creative contribution in the film, he only publicizes and promotes it..."It's not a movie by a predator (Harvey)", It's by John Madden/ Anthony Minghella..they brought those beautiful ideas to life and they made the film awesome..not that rapist...Just coz these films were engulfed in controversy due to a rapist producer and winning over other loved films, the audience has cheapened their quality...
You and Harvey...only ones that believe SIL deserved the win...
HOW DID THE TRUMAN SHOW NOT EVEN CRACK THE NOMINEES??? Smh absolutely absurd
I agree. "The Truman Show" was nominated for:
-Best Supporting Actor (Ed Harris)
-Best Director (Peter Weir)
-Best Screenplay Written (Andrew Nicol).
It sadly didn't win a single award.
But what's more outrageous is that Jim Carrey wasn't even nominated for Best Actor (he won the Golden Globe for that film)
Seriously? There was only one movie to win this Saving Private Ryan!!! One of the best movies I've ever seen! Thank you for this masterpiece Steven Spielberg!
what about shawshank redemption and pulp fiction ? they didnt win best picture either, they lost to forrest gump
*Plays The Jaws theme as Harvey is standing behind Donna while she’s making a speech*
The way the film tackled class division with homour and truth and dash it with poetry is amazing. The chemistry between Gwyneth and Fiennes electrifies the screen while Judi Dench is simply a scene-stealer. The finale where Viola bids goodbye to Will and Will writes another play inspired by Viola's fatal journey and eventual survival is clever particularly when it becomes the basis for another Shakespeare play. Without a doubt, Saving Private Ryan is a superb war movie. But how often can moviegoers like me who do not read Shakespeare be given a chance to touched and entertained, if not by his writings but at least by an idea of how he wrote them.
Fuck that, saving private ryan > any movie they named
Harrison Ford Oscar reads:
Best Picture 1998 Shakespeare in Love
Best Director 2002 Roman Polanski
Looks like Academy trusts him with reading controversial decisions
the pianist was a great movie, but polanski winning an oscar is a BIG no
Saving Private Ryan: Dazzlingly realistic; erupts with emotion and power.
The Thin Red Line: Full of life, spirit, and such grace; the power of man's will to live, even in the darkest of times
Case in point...these two are (in my opinion) much better, quality movies. Hate? Or Appreciate?
Saving Private Ryan should've won Best Picture, Not Shakespeare in Love. Also, Tom Hanks should've won Best actor, Not Roberto Benigni.
Yes to the first…but Norton should have won.
@@supermariofan03oh yeah! Edward Norton was also worthy of that Oscar win!
Yes, Saving Private Ryan should have won, in my opinion. But still: Shakespeare in Love is NOT a bad movie! The cast is wonderful (yeah, Paltrow still shouldn't have won Best Actress), the story is original and the screenplay is great. It's okay to say that SPR should have won, but to call SIL a terrible movie just because it beat SPR is stupid.
Agreed. I've never watched both movies completely but I think they're both perfect. And for me, i'm glad Shakespeare took it in opinion. I plan on becoming an actor full-time and I want to try branching out in every genre out there. So yeah, this movie is a prime example on why I want to pursue that path.
Life is beautiful deserved that award
Yeah. If it wasn't "Saving Private Ryan", then "Life is Beautiful" could've been good as well.
But it already won for "Best Foreign Language Film" that night, so...I think that winning also for "Best Picture" could've been a little "pretencious" for Hollywood...
Honnestly, I see four of the five nominated films, Shakespeare in Love, Life Is Beautiful, Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line... My top would be 1. Life Is Beautiful, 2. Saving Private Ryan, 2. The Thin Red Line, 4. Elizabeth, 5. Shakespeare in Love... I didn't see Elizabeth, but even so, Shakespeare in Love landed on the last place... For 21 years, I didn't understand how the hell „Shakespeare in Love” had won the Best Picture against „Life Is Beautiful” and „Saving Private Ryan”... After Harvey Weinstein's scandal and conviction, I finally got it...
NICE:When Steven Spielberg won Best Director,everyone in the auditorium gave him a standing ovation.But when Shakespeare in Love won best picture,only roughly half the auditorium stood up.Further proof that Saving Private Ryan is the best picture that year.
Now that Weinstein is in jail, he’s got to give his Oscar back to Harrison Ford so that he can pass it out to Spielberg
Harrison Ford's face at 1:08 says it all!
The look of disdain on Harrison's face when he sees the winner is priceless.
Gwyneth Paltrow is filmed saying: “I don’t believe it!”. Neither do any of us, Gwyneth.
"oh wait I'm sorry everyone, Saving Private Ryan"
No movie containing Gwyneth Paltrow deserves an Oscar.
What about Se7en?
That's true.
What's with all the hate on Gweneth??
She's hot & nice
Most of us consider her to be a terrible actress.
+toddles9 Iron Man?
“Yo yo yo Shakespeare in love I’m really happy for you and ima let you finish
But saving private ryan is the greatest snub of all time”
Who would've known Harrison would've presented the same award to a more deserving film two decades later?
For me this list should have been:
Elizabeth
Life is Beautiful
Saving Private Ryan
Shakespeare in Love
The Thin Red Line
The Truman Show
Gods and Monsters
American History X
Primary Colors
A Simple Plan
Replace SiL with Prince of Egypt and you'd have a perfect list.