Sandra Bullock’s Best Actress win has aged poorly given that The Blind Side is not a good movie, her performance is nothing special, literally everyone else in that category should’ve won over her and her performance in Gravity a few years later was 10x better
@@smurfyboy92 Not to mention all the drama surrounding Michael Oher and the Tuohy family regarding the nature of their conservatorship last year. It’s hard to even think about that movie knowing all that.
Dances with Wolves felt pretty groundbreaking at the time. I think its tone and style have been copied a lot since then so it doesn't feel that unique anymore, but at the time it was quite different from things we'd seen before. Same with Rocky. Hard to overstate how impactful Rocky was at that time.
100%, although to be fair he did say Rocky could keep the Best Picture gong. The original Rocky has been tarnished by it's ever diminishing quality of sequels and imitators but that first film is a genuine classic.
@@hertor8803The Rocky Sequels have not at all been ever diminishing in quality. 5 is the clear low point, 3 and 4 are silly, 2 and especially 6 are both amazing Sequels, and all three Creed movies are pretty excellent in their own ways, too. They're certainly not ever diminishing, and if anything, especially after the silliness of 3 and 4 and the low point of 5, they actually got better over time.
Rocky is a far better movie than Dances with Wolves. You can watch Rocky today and it's as fresh and impactful as it was in 1976. Dances with Wolves, on the other hand, while enjoyable is a corny politically correct fantasy with ham fisted messaging that seems embarrassing in retrospect.
@@thareelhelloagain In my mind, there is a trilogy for Rocky: Rocky (1976), Rocky II (1979), and Rocky Balboa (2006). The other movies I regard as standalone spinoffs, some of them are downright silly. if you disregard them the character arc in the 3 movies is brilliant and moving.
I lived in L.A and worked on the fringes of Hollywood for a number of years. Hollywood is high school and the Oscars are prom night. The popular kids win Prom King and Queen, and it doesn't really mean anything in the long run.
A little secret in life - just about every work place is like high school too. Who you first eat lunch with will mean a lot. Who you shoot the breeze with too. And in the first couple days somebody will try and get the story on your dating status, etc. EVERYTHING you say about yourself and how you say it will affect your status above and beyond your job title/authority.
Exactly. The Oscars are industry trade awards, insiders honoring each other in what is essentially a popularity contest. The passage of time reveals if the choice was a good one, often a movie that went on to become a timeless classic lost to a film that is mostly forgotten. Best actor and best actress are completely arbitrary, in recent decades the intent has moved from honoring esteemed peers to making a political statement about the role. Tom Hanks is a fine actor, but his Oscar winning performance in "Philadelphia" was maudlin and over the top. Probably one of his worst, but it was about a gay man with AIDS fighting homophobia so it was tapped for the award. Gotta virtue signal.
Cate Blanchett should have won over Gwenyth Paltrow. But at the time, Blanchett was a Hollywood unknown. But it's no contest who ended up with the better career.
This is a bit disingenuous simply because we know what Gwenyth endured from Weinstein. He pushed SIL to sweep the Oscars in 99. Don’t know why Gwenyth gets so much hate for the win when it’s somewhat public knowledge what happened behind the scenes.
Cate Blanchett was almost completly unknown by that time. Her nomination was the maximum she could reach for such a convervative Academy we had at that time and Paltrow was the closest we had to a Hollywood start in the nineties. I am always surprised about this extended complaint.
Gwyneth Paltrow win Best Actress by “Shakespeare in Love” over Cate Blanchett in “Elizabeth” or Fernanda Montenegro in “Central Station” never makes sense. Never.
Paltrow had no business winning that award. It was a good performance in a good film, certainly not memorable or worthy of such an accolade. Fernanda Montenegro's performance as Dora is one of such gravitas and pathos, so moving and so human. That was an Oscar worthy performance. Blanchett in Elizabeth was another tour de force performance. This win, along with Crash besting Brokeback Mountain (and there many others) are the two that stick with me the most. Heath Ledger losing to Philip Seymour Hoffman (who was great, I'm not downplaying his performance) was also disappointing because Ledger was in a league of his own.
And again - a person that did not understand, how hard comedy is. Paltrow floats through this movie. This is great acting. Much greater than being pathetic.
Gwenny (the hilarious moniker Cynical Reviews gave her) didn’t deserve a trophy let alone a nomination. Kevin Kline winning for “A Fish Called Wanda” was a deserved win for comedy as he really is funny & the performance was memorable. Plus knowing what monster campaigned her win taints it even more
What mystifies me about Crash is that it not only was way worse than Brokeback Mountain, but the category was stacked that years. Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, and Munich all deserved to win over Crash too. While it may have been a vote against Brokeback to a degree, I think it was also a thinly veiled attempt to cater to the subject matter of Crash.
Even its director was puzzled they won Best Picture. The Academy was even polled over a decade later and the members said that they would’ve actually chosen “Brokeback Mountain” instead compared to 2005; well way too late to reverse that, isn’t it
Emily Watson's portrayal of cellist Jacqueline Du Pré was heart-wrenching and breathtaking. She deserved that win over Paltrow. If you haven't seen the movie, go watch it. It's fantastic and the Du Pré family agreed
I don't agree with the choice of Dances with wolves being on this list. However, a win that hasn't aged well that should be here is Best Actress 2010 - Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side. Every other person in that category was better in my opinion and she was a distant Number 5.
I agree 100% with you on both statements. Dances With Wolves is a remarkable film. One of my all time favourites and I can't really find any real flaws in it apart from both main characters just happening to be white, I suppose. I mean that in itself is fine, but considering the cirumstances it's bizarre. Why not just let the female star be a native american?
@@dj71162 He's already talked about Sandra in his series rating the Best Actress wins of recent years. He knows the Blind Side is not close to her best work.
Al Pacino got what I call an "Apology Oscar." It's not that the role wasn't good, but the Academy gave him an Oscar because it's been a while & he deserved it. Definitely did, but for a stronger role. I feel the same way for Whoopi Goldberg's win for Ghost. That movie would NOT have been as successful without her & it was well deserved, but her performance in The Color Purple was better.
I think this is the case for Scorsese's win for the Departed. The *Departed* is a good film, but it is not of the caliber of Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Casino, or Gangs of New York. To be honest, I think the *Age of Innocence* is a superior Scorsese film. 😂😂
One of the reasons Whoopi won for Ghost was she had done another movie that year in which she had turned in a better performance The Long Walk Home which bombed at the box office. The Academy knew she very likely wouldn't win for that movie which was from a smaller studio & had very little publicity whereas Ghost made a ton of money & was a favorite with the general public
The award that sticks in my craw is "Shakespeare in Love" winning over "Saving Private Ryan". The greatest war movie ever made losing to a mid-level period piece? WTF.
I love period films but Shakespear in Love was just meh for me. Private Ryan should have won and if not that, Elizabeth was a much better period film than SiL. I think people obsessed about Paltrow the way they obsessed about Grace Kelly, who won best actress for her mediocre performance in The Country Girl, over Judy Garland in A Star us Born. Both were bright faces of the moment and anything they were in was automatically elevated perceptually, at the time. I recently rewatched Grace in Dial M for Murder and thought how lucky she was to look as good as she did because there really wasn't much more going on except a lot of protracted and unnatural annunciation. As for Paltrow, these days when I hear her referrenced, all it brings to mind is her vagina scented candles.... 😒
15:00 i do not even remember Crash but i sure remember Brokeback mountain and i am sure you are right. It was not a vote FOR it was a vote AGAINST. What a shame
Gwyneth is charming and cute in Shakespeare in Love, she by no means should’ve won the Oscar, but it’s not a fraction as bad as Judi Dench’s Best Supporting Actress win. She shows up for 8 minutes in a big dress, isn’t even that good or memorable, and wins the Oscar? Even in the weaker 1999 lineup for Best Supporting Actress, there is no reason on earth she should’ve won.
I have to disagree, whilst I'm no fan of the win, I'd have gone with Brenda Blethyn, she is by no means bad, it's Judi Dench even at her best she is leagues ahead. In fact in the little time she is given, she gives a full Shakespearean performance full of breadth and majesty, it's just a shame it's a cameo, which for me is why she should not have won, but staying on theme and connecting it back, we all know why she got it, because the Academy realised that a year earlier they were wrong and she should've won for Mrs. Brown, awarding her for SS, so one bad decision had a knock on effect a year later.
Judi Dench is unwatchable. She just always plays herself with that hard, grating voice. She’s in a few voice ads on radio and as soon as I hear her I switch the radio off.
I read a story that all the other nominees planned to not even show up to the ceremony. They all went out and got hammered after Bengini won is also how the story goes
@@aisharedux781 and he was awesome in Lord of the rings. There definitely should have been an Oscar coming his way or at least a nomination. That anti- fantasy bias was a killer.
I'm from Brazil too and would give that Oscar for Cate Blanchett. But years later I would drop her Oscar for The aviator and give it to Natalie Portman.
@gabbyb7347 a few years ago Glenn Close remembered it saying she was shocked that Gwyneth won over Fernanda, so I guess it's remembered by some important people at least 😅
I am STILL angry over the fact that Saving Private Ryan did not win best picture. Denzel not winning for Malcolm X and Pacino not winning for The Godfather are also on my list of things that still make me angry, Oscar awards wise.
@@itsjemmabond omg, you are so right. That performance, Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon is in my top 10 favorite acting performances of all time. It was absolutely superb. Good call!
Y'all are forgetting the SPR was basically a remake of "The Fighting Sullivans." It's well-directed, but everything in the script after minute 20 was pastiche.
She only won that Oscar as she was the only American in that category. I remember that part so well the press saying she was going to win it as the Oscars at that time only ever went to American. It changed after that win as they realised the controversy around that win
I agree that Hunt wasn't the best performance of the year but I don't think her winning is a top ten type travesty. She was memorable in a very good movie.
You hit the nail on the head when you said “popular.” I worked in the movie industry and the Oscars is all about advertising pushes and a popularity contest. It’s like being in high school and running for a student body office. It’s rare that someone shocks and wins a big award. You can basically see the win coming for the top 6 categories based on how far a movie studio pushes a favorite movie based on its advertising.
Marion Cotillard winning Best Lead Actress for La Vie En Rose was quite the shocker. She came out of nowhere almost (well, France) but still bagging the oscar for a French language film is still very unexpected. I do think that winning a series of big awards like Cesar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and and a bunch of big name film festival awards helped her all the way to the top. A magnificient actress btw
Not a win but Jennifer Lawrence getting a best lead actress nomination in joy. A forgettable movie and performance. Who still remembers joy? This nomination should have gone to charlize theron for mad max
@@HalfdanMCMX I don’t think you understand what a masterclass in subtlety and physicality that performance that was. It’s ranked 16 in the best female performances of all time on Cinema Archives.
I agree with this and also have the unpopular opinion that Paltrow and SIL deserved the wins (terrible about Weinstein, who also harassed her) but that Joseph Fiennes should have been nominated and won too.
What really gets me is that sappy, hagiographic biopics are automatically considered to be "serious enough" while excellent comedies get snubbed. (Especially biopics about royalty in England and Hollywood.) Most biopics are formulaic and revisionist and barely deserve our attention. The king has a stutter? So what? Millions of common folk are fighting a horrible war and this is where our attention should go? A speech impediment?
I completely agree with you. Begnini gave the performance of his life in that film. Comedy and the Holocaust - you would not think that could be a pairing. However, the better film on that would have been "Train de Vie" (Train of life) of French (!) film director Radu Mihaileanu. Award-worthy.
still very displeased that JOY LUCK CLUB did not get any nominations for anything of the Top Award Shows in the US. Even the British BAFTAS nominated it for Best Adapted Screenplay for Amy Tan.
I attended an Oscar party that was a fundraiser in San Francisco which “crash,“ won for best picture. The reaction in the room was shock. Then disappointment, then more shock and disbelief.
@@68404 fu#$ the Dems and fu#$ Trump--This time if Trump messes up it will be those who voted for him to Be Blamed NINNYS! Inflation was lowered -- Biden was unpopular and Harris couldn't distinguish herself from him--We'll see!
Crash won cause many Academy voters didn’t want to have a movie centered on a relationship between 2 men win best picture, plain & simple. Also saw Crash in the theater, I nearly walked out about 2/3 of the way in. Absolute garbage of a movie.
Crash was an amazing movie! I really don't get the backlash in the aftermath. I think it's because many people just don't get it and think it's just about racism, when in fact, it's not.
I thought Crash was a half-decent movie but I've never been interested in seeing it again. It's aged poorly, and that would be true even if it hadn't won the Oscar it didn't deserve.
I agree that any other movie above Green Book except Star is Born, so I disagree there. Star is Born was and is a painfully overrated movie. I just don't get it. I personally hated it. It was like a 10th remake of the original, we watched this story in different eras done over & over again, and this Bradley Cooper's version wasn't good at all despite what most amazing reviews said! The main song was very good, and Gaga was also very good in the role but far from great, she also played herself. The first half had a good flow, but again, it wasn't anything mind-blowing or Oscar-worthy, and the second half of the movie was boring as hell, with bad writing, and a bad ending that can be foreseen from miles away, and it was calculated for cheap emotions. So I'm still happy Green Book won over Star is Born, because the most overhyped movie that year was def Star is Born, not Green Book. Star is Born winning that year would be actually a 'popular win' because almost everyone seems to love this movie, yet it is overrated.
Gigi, the 1958 Best Picture winner, is the very definition of a movie that doesn't hold up well. It won 9 Oscars that year. It could not be made today.
Off course it could be made today, it's a fictional story set at the turn of the 19th century, it's not a documentary or instructional film on how to think, what are you going to ban next, horror films because people shouldn't commit murder? Ban any movie that doesn't sanitise reality past and present? When are you going to start burning books?
We cant firget the cultural juggernaut Dances With Wolves was at the time. You couldnt escape it, and Costner was being treated as a modern prophet for Indigenous rights.
It's probably why it won. Everything is politics, and DWW came out at the right time to ride that particular wave. If Brokeback Mountain had come out a decade later it would have won too, because the cultural zeitgeist was there as it perhaps was not in 2005.
With all due respect, this feels like a rehash of bad choices lists. You didn’t like these picks then, you don’t like them now. To me, a didn’t age well list should be more about picks that people liked at the time, but as tastes change we look back and wonder what we were thinking.
Your number 1 pick was spot on! Crash was even included in a list of Worst Movies that same year it came out. Btw, you can hear the disappointment in Harrison Ford's voice as he announced Shakespeare in Love as the Best Picture winner. 🤭
I enjoyed watching it at the time, but have never had the urge to rewatch it. Meanwhile, I have seen Brokeback Mountain several times and would watch it again.
When I was 10 years old in the 70s, I saw "Wait Until Dark". Audrey Hepburn was nominated on this film for Best Actress. Several years later I saw "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". Katharine Hepburn was also nominate for Best Actress on this film, competing with Audrey's "Wait Until Dark". To my surprise years later, I learned that Katharine Hepburn, beat Audrey Hepburn for Best Actress. I'm not a movie critic, but I know, and I can see that Audrey's performance is much, much better than Katharine's. It's at this time that I realized, award giving bodies like the Oscars are very subjective. Voters might vote for sentimental reasons, not for performance.
Going to disagree there. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a far better film, and it's the last Spencer-Tracy film. Audrey Plaza has done much better movies than "Wait Until Dark". If you'd said "Breakfast at Tiffany's," I might agree.
@@rickdesper You just said you disagree and then proved their point by saying Katherine Hepburn deserved to win because it was a good movie and it was Spencer Tracy's last? Do you see how neither of those things have anything to do with Katherine Hepburn? Also, "Spencer-Tracy" and "Audrey Plaza"??? Are you a bot?
@@rickdesper Guess who's Coming to Dinner might be the better film, but the better actress to win the Best Actress award? I think Audrey's role is more demanding, while Katharine seems like a supporting role for me.
@@scottbrown2252 Exactly, the award for best acting performance should be absolutely unrelated to how many movies the actress has done wit the male lead in the past, or that they will never make another movie together again. None of that is relevant. Even the absolute quality level of the movie as a whole should have little to do with how an individual acting performance is evaluated. There can be an Oscar worthy acting performance in an otherwise objectively bad movie.
Thank you for reminding me why I stopped paying attention to the Oscars. Weinstein destroyed any credibility this ceremony had prior. Not sure when it will recover...
On the plus side, we get to see his bunker speech over and over again, with new English subtitles, every time there's a major scandal or controversy in American politics.
@@SuperCosty2010 Yes. Did you even see the movie? He was incredible in his role. But Hollywood would never let it happen. Just like Ralph Fiennes not winning a supporting Oscar for his portrayal of Amon Goth in Schindler's List.
@kent387 I couldn't agree more!! Unforgettable definitely sums it up! Her portrayal perfectly encapsulated loneliness, desperation, vulnerability, and insanity. That movie was so DARK and disturbing in general, I was surprised the academy nominated it at all, to be honest.
I love Cher, and she was amazing in Moonstruck, but Glenn Close was truly deserving for Fatal Attraction. She should also have won for Dangerous Liaisons instead of Jodie Foster for The Accused. I would also have given Glenn the win for The World According to Garp instead of Jessica Lange’s performance in Tootsie. Sure, Jessica was charming and lovely in the film, but that felt like a substitute award for Frances. There’s no way she should have won the Oscar over Meryl Streep in Sophie’s Choice. I would also have awarded Vanessa Redgrave for Isadora-truly incredible and perfect. Speaking of the Redgraves, Lynn Redgrave should have won for Gods and Monsters. Judi Dench was decent in Shakespeare in Love, but there’s no way she deserved it more than Lynn. Fernanda Montenegro absolutely should have won for Central Station-that’s an undeniable fact. Everyone agrees on that, but if there’s another performance people wouldn’t mind seeing win, it would be Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth. Gwyneth Paltrow’s win was heavily influenced by Harvey Weinstein’s campaign, as was Judi Dench’s. This year, Fernanda Montenegro’s daughter, the amazing and incredible Fernanda Torres, delivered a tour de force performance in I’m Still Here. She truly deserves a nomination and might even win. I’m not sure if she’d beat Angelina Jolie’s performance in Maria, but I believe Torres has a really strong shot at taking home the Oscar. Loved your video, by the way-it was fantastic as always. I’m so sorry to hear about the passing of your pets. Sending you love and wishing you all the best. ❤
Jodie for The Accused was a respectable choice. The other 2 are ridiculous. Jessica Lange has always been just so-so IMO. Cher is an emoter, not an actor.
Please say that louder for the voters in the back. To be fair, I don't know if Jim Carrey should have won, but he should have at least received a nomination.
I feel like The Truman Show is more impressed with itself than it should be. Nothing about it was ever revelatory to me. I kept waiting for the big twist or for some other shoe to drop...and it never happened. Not close to Carrey's best performance either.
No. Terrible film. See it once, never again. Carrey is a drugged out looney at this point, but even I liked his work in 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'
Kate winslet for Titanic would have been something, just like Gleen Close for Fatal Atraction, iconic movies and roles that have aged very well but the academy just doesnt vote for the obvious one sometimes, they reward other things
The biggest shock was Leo NOT EVEN GETTING NOMINATED, that movie was great overall, aged really well and had great effects, all wins were deserving, but NOBODY cared for the boat. It was just a decoration. It's a love story, almost completely carried by two romantic leads with really good supporting cast. Actors made Titanic. Not the water effects.
You nailed #1. CRASH isn’t even the best movie named CRASH. Honourable mention to the tedious TV movie called SPOTLIGHT. I think it’s called Spotlight, haven’t bothered to watch it again tbh. GREAT list breaux
Julia Roberts' aged the worst IMO. Almost no one talks about that forgettable film or her performance in it. Unsurprisingly, it's been relegated to the dustbin and is now essentially being used as filler on the Lifetime Network. Meanwhile, Requiem for a Dream is still widely viewed and continues to impress, and people are still blown away by Ellen Burstyn's amazing performance. No one can say the same about Roberts. As you said with Helen Hunt being a "popularity win," the same can be said for Julia. She was being rewarded for making the studios so much money not because she deserved it for that specific performance.
@@rickdesper Requiem probably holds the record for the best never rewatched movie. It's just TOO hard, and I can rewatch movies about bigger tragedies, this one is just too personal (nobody in my family is an addict, I can't even imagine how people who relate to it feel).
I remember thinking, during that scene from Crash in which a guy tries to shoot a kid, 'Am I supposed to cry or laugh?' because it was so heavy-handed and melodramatic.
Not a win but meryl streep shouldn't have been nominated for Florence Foster Jenkins Rebecca Hall should have gotten that nomination for her heartbreaking performance in Christine
This same channel released a list of the top 10 underwhelming Oscar nominations (or something like that) and Streep's nomination for "Florence Foster Jenkins was on that list.
George Clooney in syriana, best supporting actor Who remembers this film? Do people even know george Clooney has won an oscar for acting for a movie named syriana? Jake glynhnall should have won for brokeback Mountain
I learned two things from you that left me with my jaw on the floor: 1) Network didn't win Best Picture (or really anything else, as I discovered) - I'm not up on film history, so I was surprised that Rocky beat it; and 2) Ian McKellen never won an Oscar. Those, along with Brokeback Mountain not winning Best Picture, which I did know but wasn't surprised by, are travesties.
that year was so good that any movie that ended up winning best picture was deserved, network should've won best director, though, if it wasn't gonna win best movie
Sidney Lumet not winning for Dog Day Afternoon, Network, or The Verdict is tragic. The Veridct, with Newman's performance of Mamet's best screenplay, was masterfully directed and should have been the one.
A shout-out to someone else who acknowledges what a great film The Verdict is. Almost nobody I mention this movie to has ever heard of it, which is a crying shame.
@johnniea4684 yes! Barry Reed has always been overshadowed by John Grisham. David Mamet did a great job adapting Reed's book, and Lumet let Newman be Newman.
@johnniea4684 yes, it hits different. Also, A Civil Action, which also beats Grisham. I think Grisham's The Rainmaker is a blend of both of these books.
In I think 2015 or somewhere around there, someone did a survey of academy voters for a redux of best picture in 2005. They admitted voting for Crash was a mistake and Brokeback Mountain should’ve won.
This is why the awards should be suspended for a few years, and when they resume, always be give a few years retroactively. Nobody truly know what the best move of the past year was until they have had a few years to reflect on it.
Kim Basinger (LA Confidential) and Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) are my Top 2 in recent memory; Julianne Moore (Boogie Nights) and Joan Allen (Nixon) were both robbed.
I'm with you for Joan Allen. The scene where she tells Dick that she wants a divorce is an all-timer. "How many thousands of miles have I traveled? How many hands have I shaken? How many thank-you notes have I written?"
@@BFA100 The way I remember it, Kim Basinger was onscreen for about 10 minutes doing a kind of Marilyn Monroe impersonation. Nothing against her but that's not Oscar worthy.
She didn’t do an impersonation; she was just supposed to resemble Veronica Lake, but her character had nothing to do with Lake, really, outside of this being a noir.
Robert Redford for Ordinary People and Kevin Costner for Dances over Martin Scorsese for Raging Bull and Goodfellas is all you need to know to understand Hollywood, Oscars, and life in general. Ordinary People and Dances are both good films and Robert Redford and Kevin Costner are both decent guys, actors, and directors, but we are talking all time masterpieces. Raging Bull and Goodfellas and other films like those are just too good for the Oscars. You can't take too much risk, swing for the fences, or be overly artistic. It is a popularity contest. Best Hollywood ambasador wins. And being a handsome actor helps. I'm not hating, just saying.
@@HuntingViolets true. We are talking about adaptations too. Redford and Costner made good adaptations of books. They aren't really auteurs. Scorsese also has adapted most of his films, but you always know it is a Scorsese movie. I mean, I completely get the wins over Scorsese, even if they aren't better films or better examples of great direction.
Disagree. Scorsese's films are always about shitty people doing shitty things. Ordinary People featured fantastic performances by Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore (!), whereas Goodfellas was just more of the same from De Niro and Pesci.
@@tomgreenleaf7906 A good movie doesn't have to be about "good" people. There has never been anything written or spoken that has defined a good film in that way.
I know every Godfather fan will disagree with me, but the best performance of 1974 was not Art Carney or Pacino. It was Albert Finney for Murder on the Orient Express. Talk about disappearing into the character and making the character a perfect fit for the movie.
10.Totally agree about Helen Hunt. I’d also have given it to Helen Bonham Carter over Hunt. 9. Agreed. Goodfellas is one of the best films of all time. 8. I also don’t hate Green Book and yet the day after it won it was already pretty clear that win hadn’t aged well lol. 7. This one has aged TERRIBLY 6. Crazy Pacino only has one Oscar. 5. Not sure about this one. Network was maybe too ahead of its time as opposed to Rocky aging poorly. 4. Agree 100% 3. Agree 100% Weinstein is such trash 2. Agree 100% Even if you turn off Saving Private Ryan after the first 20 minutes it is still a better movie than Shakespeare in Love. 1. Lol Jack Nicholson was REALLY not impressed with that win!
It's not even close to being the best film of that title. David Cronenberg helmed a film of that title in 1996 starring David Spader as a man who, after surviving a car crash, develops a sexual fetish involving car crashes.
Heh, Crash was pretty polarizing even at the time, and it doesn't seem to have a much warmer reception now. As part of my job then I had to read tons of movie reviews from pro and amateur critics, and Crash got lots of meh reviews, though some good ones too. But it beat 2 films that I never saw a bad review for - Brokeback Mountain and Good Night & Good Luck.
@vangroover1903 Tonto is the only reason I ended up seeing the movie. My mom saw the video for rent with him on the cover. He also happened to look like our cat at the time.
This may just be a controversial opinion. However, never cared for Jodie Foster's Best Actress win for The Accused. Should have went to Glenn Close in Dangerous Liasons.
That was a toss up to be honest. Both were worthy. Glenn Close was spectacular, but can't really underestimate how seismic The Accused was at the time. And it still hits hard, so can't say it falls into the hasn't aged well category.
@@prilljazzatlanta5070I really like Spotlight. The Catholic Church needs to be called out, over and over again for their disgusting behavior. Hundreds if not thousands of dead young men because of that abomination of a church, including my brother in law.
A very thought-provoking video. As difficult as it is to confine myself to just one, for "Best film," I'd say that "Around the world in 80 days" (1956) merits serious consideration. In 1956, I'm sure the travelog aspects of the film had audiences gasping (I stress again, 1956: foreign travel - much less exotic foreign travel - was much less common than it is today). And no doubt it was (and is) fun to pick out the stars appearing in cameos. But as "Best picture," it hasn't aged well. (For what it's worth, confining myself to the official nominees, I would have gone with "The king and I.") Thanks so much for posting this video!
Martin Scorsese should have won for Goodfellas, and it also should have one best picture. Granted, Dances With Wolves is a great movie, but Goodfellas is a classic.
I definitely agree. Also, Lorraine Bracco performance (in Goodfellas) should have won over Whoopie Goldberg's for Ghost. I think the Academy was trying to atone for it's *The Color Purple* debacle.
I come from Brazil, specifically from the Northeast, where Central Station was filmed (yeah, that semi-desert place that almost no one thinks it exist in a country supposed to be full of rainforests) and I am really glad that you mentioned Fernanda Montenegro. We brazilians hold a grudge towards Gwyneth. 😂
Pacino was robbed of an Oscar for 'Serpico', but politics being what they were at that time, and the actual Serpico living in exile in Europe for revealing the depth of political and LEO corruption, there was no way the Academy was going to hand the Oscar to Pacino.
The 3 movies I think Pacino should have definitely won for godfather part 2, serpico and dog day afternoon these are the 3 performances no one else could do the man absolutely aces it in them movies acting on another level.
Pacino was on Maron's podcast a few weeks ago and he talked about when he was nominated for Best Supporting actor for the first Godfather and he didn't go to the ceremony. A lot of people criticized him because they thought he was being a snob and that he was upset that he wasn't nominated for lead. He said that reputation followed him around for a while. So, that could have contributed to not winning the next 2 years for Serpico and Godfather II.
Brian why didn't you include Sandra Bullock? I love her but that was a meh movie with a caricature performance. Anyone else in that category should have won. At most it should have been a Lifetime movie.
This video is full of personal opinion. I guess there's nothing wrong with that, but you phrase things with a tone of certainty that insinuates facts rather than personal takes. I disagree with several of your opinions.
And I disagree with yours. He did not state his opinions as fact. I happen to agree on all of the views offered, especially the Oscar for Rocky over All the President's Men.
@@nickpaine Sadly there's some truth to that question. UA-cam is permiated with statements presented as facts rather than opinions. Perhaps it would be helpful if videos began with stating that this is an opinion piece. I don't have any issue with any opinion, we need different views.
@leebrandt8597 You are absolutely right about UA-cam. Truth and opinion are too freely mixed. Some sort of standard may help but likely would not effectively separate opinions from actual facts. Lying isn't illegal, though fact-based claims are in retreat, these days.
Am I to believe that the narrator didn't think there were any Oscar wins that aged terribly before the 1970's? Or did he not want to use still photos from the Academy Awards for any possible picks (i.e. How Green Was My Valley winning Best Picture over Citizen Kane for 1941) for this video.
1974 Oscar win for best actor: Jack Lemmon for _Save the Tiger._ He beat Marlon Brando for _Last Tango in Paris,_ Al Pacino in _Serpico,_ Robert Redford in _The Sting,_ and, most outrageously, Steve McQueen wasn't even nominated for _Papillon_ apparently due to some Academy backroom politics.
Last Tango was shocking, but a stunning movie. Americans are so hung up about sex and related issues. You couldn't make that movie today, but it's not pornography! And Brando gave another amazing performance, as he was often capable of doing. It almost seemed like a movie David Lynch or Kubrick might have made, ala Eyes Wide Shut or Lolits.
Stopped the video at 1:15. How can I take you serious for the rest of the video when you think "As good as it gets" is only 'fine' while I think it is one of the best movies ever made?
Agree. Disagree. Yes, Pacino should’ve won for some earlier performances. Helen Hunt was far better in her own movie, “Then She Found Me.” But I loved Dances with Wolves and Ordinary People. I think Scorsese is a little overrated, same as Spielberg, whose films always seem a little too self-conscious and perfect. Definitely Brokeback Mountain; I’d never seen it, but my adult daughter insisted that I watch it. I was overwhelmed. Sorry, but I loved Shakespeare in Love, and I thought Paltrow glowed from the inside. Dench should’ve won for Mrs. Brown; she actually won for her two minutes in Shakespeare. You lost me with ROMA; I looked forward to it. It’s one of my most-hated movies. Barf. Oh, and Benini was tragic and poignant; I don’t understand the denigration. My two cents.
I'm sorry but I don't get why A Star is Born was so well received. With the exception of Bradley Cooper's performance, which was fine(not amazing, but above average), and a few songs, everything about that movie was cheesy and cringeworthy. The dialogue, the acting, the tone, everything was so forced and badly handled. It's like I watched a different movie than the critics. It was overnominated and didn't deserve Best Picture/Director/Actress/Screenplay/Supporting Actor nominations, let alone wins.
Everybody knows Al Pacino should have gotten an Academy Award for one of The Godfather films, or another excellent performance he gave in the 70s like Serpico or have been nominated for Scarface or even the year he got his Oscar. He gave a better performance in Glengarry Glen Ross in Best Supporting Actor, that would have been better than his win for Scent of a Woman. Rather than Denzel winning for Malcolm X, RDJ winning for Chaplin or even Eastwood winning for Unforgiven, Pacino won because it was his turn to win since he didn’t get one before that point, of course Eastwood would get 2 Oscars that year for Best Director and Best Picture for Unforgiven, so he didn’t walk away empty handed, but Denzel Washington or Robert Downey, Jr. should have gotten it that year over Pacino and Pacino should have won 2 decades prior.
Ironic that Denzel Washington lost the Best Actor for a performance of a historical figure considering that the Academy is known for performances of famous people.
The academy has a long history of giving people Oscars because they deserved an Oscar years before but they messed up and didn't give it when they should've.
He may have been better in Glengarry Glen Ross, but he wasn't the best performance in that film. (And no, it wasn't Alec Baldwin.) Jack Lemmon owns that role and his performance is a master class. Even Pacino says so. (He later played the Shelley Levene role in a stage production of GGR.)
I don't agree with all of your entries, but I do agree with most of them. I did notice that you didn't mention anything from the Golden Age, maybe you just don't watch older movies. But the one I always point to as a "robbed" Oscar win was 1940 Best Actor. Robert Donat for "Goodbye Mr. Chips." That should have gone to James Stewart for "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," which was perhaps Stewart's finest performance (though figuring that out is pretty hard in itself when you consider his lifetime of performances). To be fair, he was also competing with Clark Gable for "Gone with the Wind" and Laurence Olivier for "Wuthering Heights", so maybe that was a case of the vote just getting split. And I think the Academy realize it, which is why Stewart got his "consolation" award the next year for "The Philadelphia Story." Now, I love that movie too, and I love Stewart in it, he was great. But it was hardly his best film. And that year, Stewart's consolation award caused Olivier to not get it for "Rebecca" or Henry Fonda for "Grapes of Wrath," or Charlie Chaplin for "The Great Dictator." Gosh, there were such a wealth of great films and actors in those days. No wonder they call it the Golden Age. Oh, and how can I not mention Humphrey Bogart losing for "Casablanca" to Paul Lukas in 1944?
In 1999 my main wish was for anything to win best picture rather than Saving Private Ryan. After the great battle scene, it was all downhill, basically as soon as anyone talked. The characters were smug and unlikable and the dialogue grated. It seemed that no-one except the Americans mattered. The French were treated by the movie like animals, the Germans as a pure evil force. Other Allied nations were not even mentioned in passing. I greatly enjoyed Shakespeare in Love, a well written, well acted film with heart and wit but I was hoping for (and expecting) Cate Blanchett to win for Elizabeth. She glowed with star quality, the movie itself not so much. I do agree that As Good As It Gets was humdrum, or worse.
Agree about downhill, disagree about the points mentioned. "The French were treated like animals" - if you remember, Vin Diesel's character died saving a french girl. The Germans were indeed a pure evil force, even if I'm not remembering seeing something like that in the movie
@@SuperCosty2010 I only saw the movie once. My memory of the French civilians was of them huddling in their destroyed houses while the US soldiers ambled past. They had no identity. My comment about the Germans relate to them being essentially a faceless single entity with no subtlety of representation.
Sandra Bullock’s Best Actress win has aged poorly given that The Blind Side is not a good movie, her performance is nothing special, literally everyone else in that category should’ve won over her and her performance in Gravity a few years later was 10x better
@@smurfyboy92 Not to mention all the drama surrounding Michael Oher and the Tuohy family regarding the nature of their conservatorship last year. It’s hard to even think about that movie knowing all that.
Also, Gravity was literally the next year! The much better performance
@@steveolivier5898 Gravity came 4 years later. 2009 and 2013.
Sandra Bullock in Gravity would not have won over Cate Blanchett. Her Blue Jasmine performance was one of the most honored in Oscar history.
She shouldn't have even been nominated for The Blind Side. VERY milktoast character and performance.
Dances with Wolves felt pretty groundbreaking at the time. I think its tone and style have been copied a lot since then so it doesn't feel that unique anymore, but at the time it was quite different from things we'd seen before. Same with Rocky. Hard to overstate how impactful Rocky was at that time.
I went through rehab with a Mohawk and he was enraptured by that movie. He was my best friend in rehab so I heard about it a lot …
100%, although to be fair he did say Rocky could keep the Best Picture gong. The original Rocky has been tarnished by it's ever diminishing quality of sequels and imitators but that first film is a genuine classic.
@@hertor8803The Rocky Sequels have not at all been ever diminishing in quality. 5 is the clear low point, 3 and 4 are silly, 2 and especially 6 are both amazing Sequels, and all three Creed movies are pretty excellent in their own ways, too. They're certainly not ever diminishing, and if anything, especially after the silliness of 3 and 4 and the low point of 5, they actually got better over time.
Rocky is a far better movie than Dances with Wolves. You can watch Rocky today and it's as fresh and impactful as it was in 1976. Dances with Wolves, on the other hand, while enjoyable is a corny politically correct fantasy with ham fisted messaging that seems embarrassing in retrospect.
@@thareelhelloagain In my mind, there is a trilogy for Rocky: Rocky (1976), Rocky II (1979), and Rocky Balboa (2006). The other movies I regard as standalone spinoffs, some of them are downright silly. if you disregard them the character arc in the 3 movies is brilliant and moving.
I lived in L.A and worked on the fringes of Hollywood for a number of years. Hollywood is high school and the Oscars are prom night. The popular kids win Prom King and Queen, and it doesn't really mean anything in the long run.
Excellent way to put it.
@@jgesselberty I concur.
It's all a pile of shite - the media bigging themselves up for being...the media.
@@jgesselberty Just sometimes if one looks back at previous big winners Hollywood gets real, sometimes!
A little secret in life - just about every work place is like high school too.
Who you first eat lunch with will mean a lot. Who you shoot the breeze with too.
And in the first couple days somebody will try and get the story on your dating status, etc. EVERYTHING you say about yourself and how you say it will affect your status above and beyond your job title/authority.
Exactly. The Oscars are industry trade awards, insiders honoring each other in what is essentially a popularity contest. The passage of time reveals if the choice was a good one, often a movie that went on to become a timeless classic lost to a film that is mostly forgotten. Best actor and best actress are completely arbitrary, in recent decades the intent has moved from honoring esteemed peers to making a political statement about the role. Tom Hanks is a fine actor, but his Oscar winning performance in "Philadelphia" was maudlin and over the top. Probably one of his worst, but it was about a gay man with AIDS fighting homophobia so it was tapped for the award. Gotta virtue signal.
Cate Blanchett should have won over Gwenyth Paltrow. But at the time, Blanchett was a Hollywood unknown. But it's no contest who ended up with the better career.
This is a bit disingenuous simply because we know what Gwenyth endured from Weinstein. He pushed SIL to sweep the Oscars in 99. Don’t know why Gwenyth gets so much hate for the win when it’s somewhat public knowledge what happened behind the scenes.
Fernanda Montenegro should have won, best performance that year and one of the finest all time.
@@omaxfaria Agreed!
Cate Blanchett was almost completly unknown by that time. Her nomination was the maximum she could reach for such a convervative Academy we had at that time and Paltrow was the closest we had to a Hollywood start in the nineties.
I am always surprised about this extended complaint.
Fernanda Montenegro should have won that year
Gwyneth Paltrow win Best Actress by “Shakespeare in Love” over Cate Blanchett in “Elizabeth” or Fernanda Montenegro in “Central Station” never makes sense. Never.
I always thought that Cate Blanchett deserved that Oscar but Weinstein clearly paid for Gwyneth to get it instead.
Because Gwyneth was all over Weinstein.
That's what happens when they split the vote. The runner up gets the glory.
Paltrow had no business winning that award. It was a good performance in a good film, certainly not memorable or worthy of such an accolade. Fernanda Montenegro's performance as Dora is one of such gravitas and pathos, so moving and so human. That was an Oscar worthy performance. Blanchett in Elizabeth was another tour de force performance. This win, along with Crash besting Brokeback Mountain (and there many others) are the two that stick with me the most. Heath Ledger losing to Philip Seymour Hoffman (who was great, I'm not downplaying his performance) was also disappointing because Ledger was in a league of his own.
And again - a person that did not understand, how hard comedy is. Paltrow floats through this movie. This is great acting. Much greater than being pathetic.
Gwenny (the hilarious moniker Cynical Reviews gave her) didn’t deserve a trophy let alone a nomination. Kevin Kline winning for “A Fish Called Wanda” was a deserved win for comedy as he really is funny & the performance was memorable. Plus knowing what monster campaigned her win taints it even more
What mystifies me about Crash is that it not only was way worse than Brokeback Mountain, but the category was stacked that years. Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, and Munich all deserved to win over Crash too.
While it may have been a vote against Brokeback to a degree, I think it was also a thinly veiled attempt to cater to the subject matter of Crash.
Yeah, I actually thought Good Night, and Good Luck should have won. I thought I was going to hate that movie, and I ended up loving it.
Brokeback was a masterpiece. Crash was OK but does anybody even remember it anymore?
@@celestialdemon1316 good Night and Good Luck was my favorite that year as well. But I also thought Brokeback Mountain was a masterpiece.
@@JDHutchison It was a little too slow for me, but everything else about it was fantastic.
Even Harrison Ford doesn’t seem too excited about announcing “Shakespeare in Love” as Best Picture 😂
Harrison ford isn’t excited about anything
@ hahahaha that is true 😂
Who would be? Besides he was up there presenting to what everyone thought would be his great friend and collaborator Spielberg.
Though, Harrison Ford doesn't really give a damn about most things. lol
Yeah, i thought he had the look you get when you're expecting something delicious, and it's rotten.
I recently saw Crash without knowing it won an academy award. I thought it was bad. I am baffled to learn it won.
Even its director was puzzled they won Best Picture. The Academy was even polled over a decade later and the members said that they would’ve actually chosen “Brokeback Mountain” instead compared to 2005; well way too late to reverse that, isn’t it
@@LucyLioness100 Yes when one Snoozes one Loses
has to do with lobbying by the behind the scenes execs. We are just peons that get spoon fed this garbage
@@andiman45 ok, then Julia Roberts win over Ellen Bursteyn was WRONG, huh?
Even Jack Nicholson seems to be amazed by that. 13:49 look how he turns to the side and mouths "wow" whilst shaking his head.
Emily Watson's portrayal of cellist Jacqueline Du Pré was heart-wrenching and breathtaking. She deserved that win over Paltrow. If you haven't seen the movie, go watch it. It's fantastic and the Du Pré family agreed
P showed her breasts. Emily learned that lesson and did the same a few years later.
Agreed
I love Fargo and McDormand, but Watson deserved to win in 1996
I don't agree with the choice of Dances with wolves being on this list. However, a win that hasn't aged well that should be here is Best Actress 2010 - Sandra Bullock for The Blind Side. Every other person in that category was better in my opinion and she was a distant Number 5.
He was never going to say Sandra because he's a huge fan of her!
I agree 100% with you on both statements. Dances With Wolves is a remarkable film. One of my all time favourites and I can't really find any real flaws in it apart from both main characters just happening to be white, I suppose. I mean that in itself is fine, but considering the cirumstances it's bizarre. Why not just let the female star be a native american?
I am too, but she shouldn’t have won for that.
@@dj71162 He's already talked about Sandra in his series rating the Best Actress wins of recent years. He knows the Blind Side is not close to her best work.
Goodfellas is a million times better.
Al Pacino got what I call an "Apology Oscar." It's not that the role wasn't good, but the Academy gave him an Oscar because it's been a while & he deserved it. Definitely did, but for a stronger role.
I feel the same way for Whoopi Goldberg's win for Ghost. That movie would NOT have been as successful without her & it was well deserved, but her performance in The Color Purple was better.
@@ShinbiBelldandy Who would’ve been your pick for Best Supporting Actress in place of Whoopi Goldberg
I used to think that Whoopi should have won for TCP, but if you watch A Trip to Bountiful, it all makes sense.
I think this is the case for Scorsese's win for the Departed. The *Departed* is a good film, but it is not of the caliber of Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Casino, or Gangs of New York. To be honest, I think the *Age of Innocence* is a superior Scorsese film. 😂😂
@@hunterolaughlin I think Lorraine Bracco in *Goodfellas* turned in a superior performance.
One of the reasons Whoopi won for Ghost was she had done another movie that year in which she had turned in a better performance The Long Walk Home which bombed at the box office. The Academy knew she very likely wouldn't win for that movie which was from a smaller studio & had very little publicity whereas Ghost made a ton of money & was a favorite with the general public
The award that sticks in my craw is "Shakespeare in Love" winning over "Saving Private Ryan". The greatest war movie ever made losing to a mid-level period piece? WTF.
exactly
Hollywood pretentiousness.
@@echt114Weinstein ought to have been Cancelled for his dirty bribery long before anyone even blew the whistle on the sex blackmail.
@@echt114 Hollywood STUUUUUpidity?
I love period films but Shakespear in Love was just meh for me. Private Ryan should have won and if not that, Elizabeth was a much better period film than SiL.
I think people obsessed about Paltrow the way they obsessed about Grace Kelly, who won best actress for her mediocre performance in The Country Girl, over Judy Garland in A Star us Born. Both were bright faces of the moment and anything they were in was automatically elevated perceptually, at the time.
I recently rewatched Grace in Dial M for Murder and thought how lucky she was to look as good as she did because there really wasn't much more going on except a lot of protracted and unnatural annunciation.
As for Paltrow, these days when I hear her referrenced, all it brings to mind is her vagina scented candles.... 😒
15:00 i do not even remember Crash but i sure remember Brokeback mountain and i am sure you are right. It was not a vote FOR it was a vote AGAINST. What a shame
Brokeback changed peoples' LIVES. Crash was OK, I guess. No contest whatsoever.
Gwyneth is charming and cute in Shakespeare in Love, she by no means should’ve won the Oscar, but it’s not a fraction as bad as Judi Dench’s Best Supporting Actress win. She shows up for 8 minutes in a big dress, isn’t even that good or memorable, and wins the Oscar? Even in the weaker 1999 lineup for Best Supporting Actress, there is no reason on earth she should’ve won.
I have to disagree, whilst I'm no fan of the win, I'd have gone with Brenda Blethyn, she is by no means bad, it's Judi Dench even at her best she is leagues ahead. In fact in the little time she is given, she gives a full Shakespearean performance full of breadth and majesty, it's just a shame it's a cameo, which for me is why she should not have won, but staying on theme and connecting it back, we all know why she got it, because the Academy realised that a year earlier they were wrong and she should've won for Mrs. Brown, awarding her for SS, so one bad decision had a knock on effect a year later.
My problem with Shakespeare in Love was that Joseph Fiennes didn't win! He is the one who carried the film, not Paltrow.
@@latebloomerabroadIndeed, he gave a wonderful performance and he wasn't nominated at all. What a shame!
But Judi is a phenomenal actor, something Paltrow is not. I can justify that win over Paltrow’s for that reason alone.
Judi Dench is unwatchable. She just always plays herself with that hard, grating voice. She’s in a few voice ads on radio and as soon as I hear her I switch the radio off.
In 2004, the Academy would have chose any movie over a homosexual love story, I think that has a lot to do with Crash's victory.
Sir Ian McKellen! They did him wrong 😑
I read a story that all the other nominees planned to not even show up to the ceremony. They all went out and got hammered after Bengini won is also how the story goes
@@aisharedux781 and he was awesome in Lord of the rings. There definitely should have been an Oscar coming his way or at least a nomination. That anti- fantasy bias was a killer.
Peter O'Toole is another that was frequently nominated but never won.
Gods and Monsters is an incredible film! Don’t know if you’ve seen him in The Critic this year - he was excellent in that too.
Im from Brazil, cool that you remember Fernanda Montenegro about this oscar lose! Everybody here thinks the same!
I am from Hungary, her film was shown there in my childhood. Magnificent perfomance!
Who remembers Central Station? Be real 😂 other than brazilians that is. She was happy to be there
I'm from Brazil too and would give that Oscar for Cate Blanchett. But years later I would drop her Oscar for The aviator and give it to Natalie Portman.
@gabbyb7347 a few years ago Glenn Close remembered it saying she was shocked that Gwyneth won over Fernanda, so I guess it's remembered by some important people at least 😅
@@gabbyb7347 Glenn Close and Ian McKellen doesn't agree with you and their opinion is much more important.
I am STILL angry over the fact that Saving Private Ryan did not win best picture. Denzel not winning for Malcolm X and Pacino not winning for The Godfather are also on my list of things that still make me angry, Oscar awards wise.
You and me both!
Al Pacino should have also won for Dog Day Afternoon. The fact that the man only has one Oscar is a disgrace.
@@itsjemmabond omg, you are so right. That performance, Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon is in my top 10 favorite acting performances of all time. It was absolutely superb. Good call!
@pommie5093 "Kiss me... I like to be kissed when I'm being f**ked!" The screenplay was great too.
Y'all are forgetting the SPR was basically a remake of "The Fighting Sullivans." It's well-directed, but everything in the script after minute 20 was pastiche.
The worst part about Helen Hunt’s Oscar win is Pam Grier not even being nominated for Jackie Brown and it’s EASILY a better performance.
Very odd take......
Strong agree.
She only won that Oscar as she was the only American in that category. I remember that part so well the press saying she was going to win it as the Oscars at that time only ever went to American. It changed after that win as they realised the controversy around that win
Pam Grier owned that movie. Surrounded by first rate actors and she OWNED it. I bought that on VHS lol & watched it over & over, for the nuances.
I agree that Hunt wasn't the best performance of the year but I don't think her winning is a top ten type travesty. She was memorable in a very good movie.
You hit the nail on the head when you said “popular.” I worked in the movie industry and the Oscars is all about advertising pushes and a popularity contest. It’s like being in high school and running for a student body office. It’s rare that someone shocks and wins a big award. You can basically see the win coming for the top 6 categories based on how far a movie studio pushes a favorite movie based on its advertising.
Marion Cotillard winning Best Lead Actress for La Vie En Rose was quite the shocker. She came out of nowhere almost (well, France) but still bagging the oscar for a French language film is still very unexpected. I do think that winning a series of big awards like Cesar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and and a bunch of big name film festival awards helped her all the way to the top. A magnificient actress btw
Not a win but Jennifer Lawrence getting a best lead actress nomination in joy. A forgettable movie and performance. Who still remembers joy?
This nomination should have gone to charlize theron for mad max
Yes, good point
I loved Joy, and I still remember it and watch it every now and then
In Mad Max??? It's a decent performance by a great actress but wtf are you talking about? That is nowhere near a prize-worthy performance.
@@HalfdanMCMX I don’t think you understand what a masterclass in subtlety and physicality that performance that was. It’s ranked 16 in the best female performances of all time on Cinema Archives.
Joy was not that bad! Maybe my favorite Jennifer Lawrence movie, honestly
I noticed how people tend to always suggest comedic performances weren’t deserved. People don’t respect comedic performances!
Great comedy is generally harder than great drama. There, I said it.
I agree with this and also have the unpopular opinion that Paltrow and SIL deserved the wins (terrible about Weinstein, who also harassed her) but that Joseph Fiennes should have been nominated and won too.
What really gets me is that sappy, hagiographic biopics are automatically considered to be "serious enough" while excellent comedies get snubbed. (Especially biopics about royalty in England and Hollywood.)
Most biopics are formulaic and revisionist and barely deserve our attention. The king has a stutter? So what? Millions of common folk are fighting a horrible war and this is where our attention should go? A speech impediment?
You are SO DAMN RIGHT!
I completely agree with you. Begnini gave the performance of his life in that film. Comedy and the Holocaust - you would not think that could be a pairing. However, the better film on that would have been "Train de Vie" (Train of life) of French (!) film director Radu Mihaileanu. Award-worthy.
I had totally forgot about Crash. Best Picture? Ridiculous
I never heard of 'Greenbook'.
Even its director called the win into question & the Academy a decade later even said they would’ve chosen “Brokeback Mountain” instead
Heath Ledger was ROBBED. So was Ang Lee. That was the end for me.
still very displeased that JOY LUCK CLUB did not get any nominations for anything of the Top Award Shows in the US. Even the British BAFTAS nominated it for Best Adapted Screenplay for Amy Tan.
I agree. *The Joy Luck Club* is an underappreciated/ underrated masterpiece.
Couldn’t agree more.
Forrest Gump won best picture over The Shawshank Redemption and Pulp Fiction. That would be on my list.
I still don't understand the hype around Forest Gump
I like Four Weddings and a Funeral and Quiz Show more too
That was a great year for films.
True. Forrest Gump is just awful!
Oscar generally goes to the cultural relevance of that year. Forrest Gump fits the bill. It's still very popular and relevant
I attended an Oscar party that was a fundraiser in San Francisco which “crash,“ won for best picture. The reaction in the room was shock. Then disappointment, then more shock and disbelief.
Like in the Democrats 'celebration' room this month.
@@68404 fu#$ the Dems and fu#$ Trump--This time if Trump messes up it will be those who voted for him to Be Blamed NINNYS! Inflation was lowered -- Biden was unpopular and Harris couldn't distinguish herself from him--We'll see!
Crash won cause many Academy voters didn’t want to have a movie centered on a relationship between 2 men win best picture, plain & simple.
Also saw Crash in the theater, I nearly walked out about 2/3 of the way in. Absolute garbage of a movie.
I also believe that they were afraid of being called racist if Crash didn't win.
A mexican telenovela has more dept than bareback mountain
Crash was an amazing movie! I really don't get the backlash in the aftermath. I think it's because many people just don't get it and think it's just about racism, when in fact, it's not.
I stopped watching the Oscars after Heath Ledger was robbed of his Best Actor award. Never heard of Green Book
I thought Crash was a half-decent movie but I've never been interested in seeing it again. It's aged poorly, and that would be true even if it hadn't won the Oscar it didn't deserve.
I agree that any other movie above Green Book except Star is Born, so I disagree there. Star is Born was and is a painfully overrated movie. I just don't get it. I personally hated it. It was like a 10th remake of the original, we watched this story in different eras done over & over again, and this Bradley Cooper's version wasn't good at all despite what most amazing reviews said! The main song was very good, and Gaga was also very good in the role but far from great, she also played herself. The first half had a good flow, but again, it wasn't anything mind-blowing or Oscar-worthy, and the second half of the movie was boring as hell, with bad writing, and a bad ending that can be foreseen from miles away, and it was calculated for cheap emotions. So I'm still happy Green Book won over Star is Born, because the most overhyped movie that year was def Star is Born, not Green Book. Star is Born winning that year would be actually a 'popular win' because almost everyone seems to love this movie, yet it is overrated.
Agree 100%. It had some good scenes but that's about it.
Gigi, the 1958 Best Picture winner, is the very definition of a movie that doesn't hold up well. It won 9 Oscars that year. It could not be made today.
Off course it could be made today, it's a fictional story set at the turn of the 19th century, it's not a documentary or instructional film on how to think, what are you going to ban next, horror films because people shouldn't commit murder? Ban any movie that doesn't sanitise reality past and present? When are you going to start burning books?
Well, it's the 50s, 40s, and 60s. Different standards. People who made the decision back then probably started during the silent film era.
@@karlkarlos3545 And just what do you think not aging well means?
@@mdp26 There is aging, and there is not aging well. Sometimes it seems people don't understand the difference.
@@karlkarlos3545 Feel free to watch Gigi and tell me with a straight face that it isn't a perfect example for something not aging well.
We cant firget the cultural juggernaut Dances With Wolves was at the time. You couldnt escape it, and Costner was being treated as a modern prophet for Indigenous rights.
I enjoyed the film.
It's probably why it won. Everything is politics, and DWW came out at the right time to ride that particular wave. If Brokeback Mountain had come out a decade later it would have won too, because the cultural zeitgeist was there as it perhaps was not in 2005.
Followed up 5 years later with that other cultural juggernaut, _Waterworld_
With all due respect, this feels like a rehash of bad choices lists. You didn’t like these picks then, you don’t like them now. To me, a didn’t age well list should be more about picks that people liked at the time, but as tastes change we look back and wonder what we were thinking.
You do have a point. Not aging well is a win that seemed OK at the time, but overtime, is met with "Seriously, that happened???"
Interesting indeed 🤔
Perhaps, but Brokeback Mountain was praised by just about everyone...and lost to what a movie that featured lots of Hollywood insiders.
I agree
Your number 1 pick was spot on! Crash was even included in a list of Worst Movies that same year it came out.
Btw, you can hear the disappointment in Harrison Ford's voice as he announced Shakespeare in Love as the Best Picture winner. 🤭
I always thought Crash was a disappointing win
It's actually a terrible film...like very very very bad
Brokeback Mountain was robbed.
I enjoyed watching it at the time, but have never had the urge to rewatch it. Meanwhile, I have seen Brokeback Mountain several times and would watch it again.
When I was 10 years old in the 70s, I saw "Wait Until Dark". Audrey Hepburn was nominated on this film for Best Actress. Several years later I saw "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". Katharine Hepburn was also nominate for Best Actress on this film, competing with Audrey's "Wait Until Dark". To my surprise years later, I learned that Katharine Hepburn, beat Audrey Hepburn for Best Actress. I'm not a movie critic, but I know, and I can see that Audrey's performance is much, much better than Katharine's. It's at this time that I realized, award giving bodies like the Oscars are very subjective. Voters might vote for sentimental reasons, not for performance.
In any Hepburn on Hepburn action, the loser is bound to be a Hepburn
Going to disagree there. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a far better film, and it's the last Spencer-Tracy film. Audrey Plaza has done much better movies than "Wait Until Dark". If you'd said "Breakfast at Tiffany's," I might agree.
@@rickdesper You just said you disagree and then proved their point by saying Katherine Hepburn deserved to win because it was a good movie and it was Spencer Tracy's last? Do you see how neither of those things have anything to do with Katherine Hepburn? Also, "Spencer-Tracy" and "Audrey Plaza"??? Are you a bot?
@@rickdesper Guess who's Coming to Dinner might be the better film, but the better actress to win the Best Actress award? I think Audrey's role is more demanding, while Katharine seems like a supporting role for me.
@@scottbrown2252 Exactly, the award for best acting performance should be absolutely unrelated to how many movies the actress has done wit the male lead in the past, or that they will never make another movie together again. None of that is relevant. Even the absolute quality level of the movie as a whole should have little to do with how an individual acting performance is evaluated. There can be an Oscar worthy acting performance in an otherwise objectively bad movie.
Thank you for reminding me why I stopped paying attention to the Oscars. Weinstein destroyed any credibility this ceremony had prior. Not sure when it will recover...
It's also about the bad movies during the recent years.
Bruno Ganz not even getting a nomination for Downfall in 2004, let alone not winning for best actor, was a disgrace.
On the plus side, we get to see his bunker speech over and over again, with new English subtitles, every time there's a major scandal or controversy in American politics.
Oh come on, Oscar for a Hitler role??
@@SuperCosty2010 Yes. Did you even see the movie? He was incredible in his role. But Hollywood would never let it happen. Just like Ralph Fiennes not winning a supporting Oscar for his portrayal of Amon Goth in Schindler's List.
@@majorsynthqed7374 of course I saw him, the performance is unbelievable. Nevertheless, the Hitler role
@@SuperCosty2010 Hopkins won in 1992 playing a serial killer who chewed people's faces off.
Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich over Ellen Burstyn for Requiem for a Dream, wtf
@@adamholscher3156 I will always be shocked by this one. What an emotional and haunting performance by Ellen Burstyn. Completely robbed!
@@gena4638 I really think it's one of the best performances captured on film. Absolutely unforgettable.
It’s always the comedy/dramatic performances that don’t deserve their wins over highly dramatic performances.
@kent387 I couldn't agree more!! Unforgettable definitely sums it up! Her portrayal perfectly encapsulated loneliness, desperation, vulnerability, and insanity. That movie was so DARK and disturbing in general, I was surprised the academy nominated it at all, to be honest.
I'm not going to heed the words of someone who spells Roberts with an apostrophe.
I love Cher, and she was amazing in Moonstruck, but Glenn Close was truly deserving for Fatal Attraction. She should also have won for Dangerous Liaisons instead of Jodie Foster for The Accused. I would also have given Glenn the win for The World According to Garp instead of Jessica Lange’s performance in Tootsie. Sure, Jessica was charming and lovely in the film, but that felt like a substitute award for Frances. There’s no way she should have won the Oscar over Meryl Streep in Sophie’s Choice.
I would also have awarded Vanessa Redgrave for Isadora-truly incredible and perfect. Speaking of the Redgraves, Lynn Redgrave should have won for Gods and Monsters. Judi Dench was decent in Shakespeare in Love, but there’s no way she deserved it more than Lynn.
Fernanda Montenegro absolutely should have won for Central Station-that’s an undeniable fact. Everyone agrees on that, but if there’s another performance people wouldn’t mind seeing win, it would be Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth. Gwyneth Paltrow’s win was heavily influenced by Harvey Weinstein’s campaign, as was Judi Dench’s.
This year, Fernanda Montenegro’s daughter, the amazing and incredible Fernanda Torres, delivered a tour de force performance in I’m Still Here. She truly deserves a nomination and might even win. I’m not sure if she’d beat Angelina Jolie’s performance in Maria, but I believe Torres has a really strong shot at taking home the Oscar.
Loved your video, by the way-it was fantastic as always. I’m so sorry to hear about the passing of your pets. Sending you love and wishing you all the best. ❤
Jodie for The Accused was a respectable choice. The other 2 are ridiculous. Jessica Lange has always been just so-so IMO. Cher is an emoter, not an actor.
Real ones know the real best picture and actor of 1998 was The Truman Show.
Please say that louder for the voters in the back. To be fair, I don't know if Jim Carrey should have won, but he should have at least received a nomination.
OH 100%!!! I was in awe of that film and it’s still one of my most favorite films of all time!
I feel like The Truman Show is more impressed with itself than it should be. Nothing about it was ever revelatory to me. I kept waiting for the big twist or for some other shoe to drop...and it never happened. Not close to Carrey's best performance either.
No. Terrible film. See it once, never again.
Carrey is a drugged out looney at this point, but even I liked his work in 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'
@@MchannnelNo. The twist is the only good thing.
"Crash isn't the worst best picture of all time." Uh, yes it is. "I mean, it's not bad." Uh, yes it is.
The real travesty is Roman Polanski getting standing ovation from his peers.......while in exile.
And he’s still being defended which is insane
truth
We know why with the way Hollywood truly is.
You can dislike the artist but still appreciate their work.
I appreciate his work, but I wouldn’t give him a standing ovation ever.
Kate winslet for Titanic would have been something, just like Gleen Close for Fatal Atraction, iconic movies and roles that have aged very well but the academy just doesnt vote for the obvious one sometimes, they reward other things
Yep. I love Cher, but her performance in Mask was 100x better than the one in Moonstruck. Glenn Close was robbed.
@@itsjemmabond Glenn Close has been robbed several times.
The biggest shock was Leo NOT EVEN GETTING NOMINATED, that movie was great overall, aged really well and had great effects, all wins were deserving, but NOBODY cared for the boat. It was just a decoration. It's a love story, almost completely carried by two romantic leads with really good supporting cast. Actors made Titanic. Not the water effects.
You nailed #1. CRASH isn’t even the best movie named CRASH.
Honourable mention to the tedious TV movie called SPOTLIGHT.
I think it’s called Spotlight, haven’t bothered to watch it again tbh.
GREAT list breaux
Julia Roberts' aged the worst IMO. Almost no one talks about that forgettable film or her performance in it. Unsurprisingly, it's been relegated to the dustbin and is now essentially being used as filler on the Lifetime Network. Meanwhile, Requiem for a Dream is still widely viewed and continues to impress, and people are still blown away by Ellen Burstyn's amazing performance. No one can say the same about Roberts.
As you said with Helen Hunt being a "popularity win," the same can be said for Julia. She was being rewarded for making the studios so much money not because she deserved it for that specific performance.
Requiem is a great movie, but it's so upsetting I likely won't watch it again. As for Erin Brockovich? I'm just not that interested.
You're right about Burstyn, wrong about Roberts.
@@rickdesper Requiem probably holds the record for the best never rewatched movie. It's just TOO hard, and I can rewatch movies about bigger tragedies, this one is just too personal (nobody in my family is an addict, I can't even imagine how people who relate to it feel).
I remember thinking, during that scene from Crash in which a guy tries to shoot a kid, 'Am I supposed to cry or laugh?' because it was so heavy-handed and melodramatic.
Not a win but meryl streep shouldn't have been nominated for Florence Foster Jenkins
Rebecca Hall should have gotten that nomination for her heartbreaking performance in Christine
Or Amy Adams for Arrival.
Not even her. It should’ve been Amy Adams or Taraji P Henson.
IMO many of Meryl Streep's Oscar nominations are unwarranted (if that's the right word).
This same channel released a list of the top 10 underwhelming Oscar nominations (or something like that) and Streep's nomination for "Florence Foster Jenkins was on that list.
I love Rebecca Hall in Christine. It's a great and powerful film.
George Clooney in syriana, best supporting actor
Who remembers this film?
Do people even know george Clooney has won an oscar for acting for a movie named syriana?
Jake glynhnall should have won for brokeback Mountain
True
Naw Clooney was great in Syriana
I liked Syriana but I agree
Hard agree. Clooney was fantastic in The Descendants and should’ve won for that in 2012
@@SS4LuxrayThe Descendants is an amazing film and he should have won for that performance.
Crash’s win did not age poorly. It was baffling and infuriating for everyone back then too.
I came to say this.
More proof that the Oscars really don’t mean a damn thing, especially to us normal folks.
I learned two things from you that left me with my jaw on the floor: 1) Network didn't win Best Picture (or really anything else, as I discovered) - I'm not up on film history, so I was surprised that Rocky beat it; and 2) Ian McKellen never won an Oscar. Those, along with Brokeback Mountain not winning Best Picture, which I did know but wasn't surprised by, are travesties.
that year was so good that any movie that ended up winning best picture was deserved, network should've won best director, though, if it wasn't gonna win best movie
Network won three of the four acting awards (and could have easily won the fourth as well).
Crash isn't even the best movie named Crash. It shouldn't have even been nominated, let alone won.
1) Crash over Brokeback Mountain
2) Judy Holliday over Bette Davis and Gloria Swanson
Sidney Lumet not winning for Dog Day Afternoon, Network, or The Verdict is tragic. The Veridct, with Newman's performance of Mamet's best screenplay, was masterfully directed and should have been the one.
A shout-out to someone else who acknowledges what a great film The Verdict is. Almost nobody I mention this movie to has ever heard of it, which is a crying shame.
@johnniea4684 yes! Barry Reed has always been overshadowed by John Grisham. David Mamet did a great job adapting Reed's book, and Lumet let Newman be Newman.
@@robertzuzek2678 I've not read the book; so you'd recommend it, I assume?
@johnniea4684 yes, it hits different. Also, A Civil Action, which also beats Grisham. I think Grisham's The Rainmaker is a blend of both of these books.
@robertzuzek2678 I see, thanks for the information. Looks like it's been out of print for a while, which is kind of sad.
In I think 2015 or somewhere around there, someone did a survey of academy voters for a redux of best picture in 2005. They admitted voting for Crash was a mistake and Brokeback Mountain should’ve won.
If only those revotes could’ve been legit. I wouldn’t mind Brokeback Mountain and Saving Private Ryan permanently replacing the actual winners.
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lol. No
This is why the awards should be suspended for a few years, and when they resume, always be give a few years retroactively. Nobody truly know what the best move of the past year was until they have had a few years to reflect on it.
Oscars aren't about who is the best at anything to do with film - they're about who spends the most money on parties for Academy members.
Are we allowed to say homophobia when it comes to Brokeback Mountain?
Or perhaps the audience was sickened by the behavior of degenerates?
It’s weird how homophobic and conservative Hollywood (or at least the Academy, but probably both) is.
My biggest gripe was Jaws not even being nominated at all for best director. Steven Spielberg deserved it
Kim Basinger (LA Confidential) and Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) are my Top 2 in recent memory; Julianne Moore (Boogie Nights) and Joan Allen (Nixon) were both robbed.
I'm with you for Joan Allen. The scene where she tells Dick that she wants a divorce is an all-timer. "How many thousands of miles have I traveled? How many hands have I shaken? How many thank-you notes have I written?"
I thought Kim Basinger earned her Oscar for that film.
@@BFA100 The way I remember it, Kim Basinger was onscreen for about 10 minutes doing a kind of Marilyn Monroe impersonation. Nothing against her but that's not Oscar worthy.
@@elverdaderojavierVeronica Lake
She didn’t do an impersonation; she was just supposed to resemble Veronica Lake, but her character had nothing to do with Lake, really, outside of this being a noir.
The Oscar’s aren’t rigged. They’re just terribly biased.
Robert Redford for Ordinary People and Kevin Costner for Dances over Martin Scorsese for Raging Bull and Goodfellas is all you need to know to understand Hollywood, Oscars, and life in general. Ordinary People and Dances are both good films and Robert Redford and Kevin Costner are both decent guys, actors, and directors, but we are talking all time masterpieces. Raging Bull and Goodfellas and other films like those are just too good for the Oscars. You can't take too much risk, swing for the fences, or be overly artistic. It is a popularity contest. Best Hollywood ambasador wins. And being a handsome actor helps. I'm not hating, just saying.
I think when an actor goes out of their box to direct, it gets attention too.
@@HuntingViolets true. We are talking about adaptations too. Redford and Costner made good adaptations of books. They aren't really auteurs. Scorsese also has adapted most of his films, but you always know it is a Scorsese movie. I mean, I completely get the wins over Scorsese, even if they aren't better films or better examples of great direction.
Ordinary Rich People as a friend referred to it.
Disagree. Scorsese's films are always about shitty people doing shitty things. Ordinary People featured fantastic performances by Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore (!), whereas Goodfellas was just more of the same from De Niro and Pesci.
@@tomgreenleaf7906 A good movie doesn't have to be about "good" people. There has never been anything written or spoken that has defined a good film in that way.
Most of these haven't so much aged poorly as they were critized at the time. Still, good list as usual!
Some have aged worse than others. Dances With Wolves was widely praised at the time but the luster has worn off.
I know every Godfather fan will disagree with me, but the best performance of 1974 was not Art Carney or Pacino. It was Albert Finney for Murder on the Orient Express. Talk about disappearing into the character and making the character a perfect fit for the movie.
10.Totally agree about Helen Hunt. I’d also have given it to Helen Bonham Carter over Hunt.
9. Agreed. Goodfellas is one of the best films of all time.
8. I also don’t hate Green Book and yet the day after it won it was already pretty clear that win hadn’t aged well lol.
7. This one has aged TERRIBLY
6. Crazy Pacino only has one Oscar.
5. Not sure about this one. Network was maybe too ahead of its time as opposed to Rocky aging poorly.
4. Agree 100%
3. Agree 100% Weinstein is such trash
2. Agree 100% Even if you turn off Saving Private Ryan after the first 20 minutes it is still a better movie than Shakespeare in Love.
1. Lol Jack Nicholson was REALLY not impressed with that win!
F Goodfellas. Can be subbed with any number of mob movies that are better.
Dances With Wolves has no such valid substitute.
"number 1: crash" me: wtf is crash? 😅
It's not even close to being the best film of that title. David Cronenberg helmed a film of that title in 1996 starring David Spader as a man who, after surviving a car crash, develops a sexual fetish involving car crashes.
What it WASNT was that "gay cowboy" movie. I've never watched the Oscars since.
Those are my thoughts exactly! Well, not precisely, but close enough. My thoughts were more like, “Oh, yeah. That movie exists.”
Heh, Crash was pretty polarizing even at the time, and it doesn't seem to have a much warmer reception now. As part of my job then I had to read tons of movie reviews from pro and amateur critics, and Crash got lots of meh reviews, though some good ones too. But it beat 2 films that I never saw a bad review for - Brokeback Mountain and Good Night & Good Luck.
Racial drama. Has won over gay cowboys' drama. The "gay cowboy" has become a running gag since
"Crash" was a shrill, after-school special.
The Hurt Locker is my Oscar win hat has aged poorly
Ya, definitely not as good as people made it out to be.
The Oscar's are like a return to high school. A popularity contest vs talent at least half the time.
I wouldn't mind the Art Carney win if the cat that played Tonto won along with him.
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Tonto's performance as Tonto is the most overlooked in Academy history.
It's strange, because the Academy is famously catty
@vangroover1903 Tonto is the only reason I ended up seeing the movie. My mom saw the video for rent with him on the cover. He also happened to look like our cat at the time.
Best P•••y?
How the hell did saving private Ryan not win ahead of Shakespeare in love, corrupt
No comparison- complete corruption!!
Disagree about green book, it aged very well.
This may just be a controversial opinion. However, never cared for Jodie Foster's Best Actress win for The Accused. Should have went to Glenn Close in Dangerous Liasons.
That was a toss up to be honest. Both were worthy. Glenn Close was spectacular, but can't really underestimate how seismic The Accused was at the time. And it still hits hard, so can't say it falls into the hasn't aged well category.
I would have given it to Meryl Streep for A CRY IN THE DARK. Even Jodie Foster thought that Streep should have won that year.
Wow, we are on the same page. I've been dragging that sorrow for many many years.
Oscars are a popularity contest. It's not science.
Nearly 3 years after CODA won Best Picture and ALREADY people forget it exists.
And Spotlight
And The Shape of Water
@@prilljazzatlanta5070 _Spotlight_ is not forgotten.
@@prilljazzatlanta5070I really like Spotlight.
The Catholic Church needs to be called out, over and over again for their disgusting behavior. Hundreds if not thousands of dead young men because of that abomination of a church, including my brother in law.
And The King's Speech.
A very thought-provoking video. As difficult as it is to confine myself to just one, for "Best film," I'd say that "Around the world in 80 days" (1956) merits serious consideration. In 1956, I'm sure the travelog aspects of the film had audiences gasping (I stress again, 1956: foreign travel - much less exotic foreign travel - was much less common than it is today). And no doubt it was (and is) fun to pick out the stars appearing in cameos. But as "Best picture," it hasn't aged well. (For what it's worth, confining myself to the official nominees, I would have gone with "The king and I.") Thanks so much for posting this video!
Kevin Costner and Dances With Wolves beating out Martin Scorcese and Goodfellas is criminal.
Central Station should have won best foreign language movie instead of life is beautiful.
The Oscars have ALWAYS been about elites, money and influence and not about pure talent or the numbers of people touched.
Martin Scorsese should have won for Goodfellas, and it also should have one best picture. Granted, Dances With Wolves is a great movie, but Goodfellas is a classic.
I definitely agree. Also, Lorraine Bracco performance (in Goodfellas) should have won over Whoopie Goldberg's for Ghost. I think the Academy was trying to atone for it's *The Color Purple* debacle.
... should have won* (one =1)
@@einundsiebenziger5488 yeah I know. I corrected it immediately after I posted it, but apparently it didn’t update.
I come from Brazil, specifically from the Northeast, where Central Station was filmed (yeah, that semi-desert place that almost no one thinks it exist in a country supposed to be full of rainforests) and I am really glad that you mentioned Fernanda Montenegro. We brazilians hold a grudge towards Gwyneth. 😂
Pacino was robbed of an Oscar for 'Serpico', but politics being what they were at that time, and the actual Serpico living in exile in Europe for revealing the depth of political and LEO corruption, there was no way the Academy was going to hand the Oscar to Pacino.
Treat Williams in 'Prince of the City' was amazing. Similar theme, great film.
The 3 movies I think Pacino should have definitely won for godfather part 2, serpico and dog day afternoon these are the 3 performances no one else could do the man absolutely aces it in them movies acting on another level.
Pacino was on Maron's podcast a few weeks ago and he talked about when he was nominated for Best Supporting actor for the first Godfather and he didn't go to the ceremony. A lot of people criticized him because they thought he was being a snob and that he was upset that he wasn't nominated for lead. He said that reputation followed him around for a while. So, that could have contributed to not winning the next 2 years for Serpico and Godfather II.
Brian why didn't you include Sandra Bullock? I love her but that was a meh movie with a caricature performance. Anyone else in that category should have won. At most it should have been a Lifetime movie.
This video is full of personal opinion. I guess there's nothing wrong with that, but you phrase things with a tone of certainty that insinuates facts rather than personal takes. I disagree with several of your opinions.
And I disagree with yours. He did not state his opinions as fact. I happen to agree on all of the views offered, especially the Oscar for Rocky over All the President's Men.
@@nickpaine and I disagree with yours. He sounded like stating facts, not opinions
@leebrandt8597 Aren't we all doing just that?
@@nickpaine Sadly there's some truth to that question. UA-cam is permiated with statements presented as facts rather than opinions. Perhaps it would be helpful if videos began with stating that this is an opinion piece. I don't have any issue with any opinion, we need different views.
@leebrandt8597 You are absolutely right about UA-cam. Truth and opinion are too freely mixed. Some sort of standard may help but likely would not effectively separate opinions from actual facts. Lying isn't illegal, though fact-based claims are in retreat, these days.
Am I to believe that the narrator didn't think there were any Oscar wins that aged terribly before the 1970's? Or did he not want to use still photos from the Academy Awards for any possible picks (i.e. How Green Was My Valley winning Best Picture over Citizen Kane for 1941) for this video.
I’m sorry, Helen Hunt! We love you but that win was dumb.
Frankly, I think Helen Hut is over-rated in general. She has managed to sustain a long and varied career, however, so I could be wrong.
@ she was sooooo good in The Sessions. She won me over again with that performance.
I agree. She was too young for the part of a middle aged woman.
The Oscars have no credibility. It's a popularity contest like Prom Queen in high school 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
1974 Oscar win for best actor: Jack Lemmon for _Save the Tiger._ He beat Marlon Brando for _Last Tango in Paris,_ Al Pacino in _Serpico,_ Robert Redford in _The Sting,_ and, most outrageously, Steve McQueen wasn't even nominated for _Papillon_ apparently due to some Academy backroom politics.
*That* Marlon Brando performance was disgusting
Last Tango was shocking, but a stunning movie. Americans are so hung up about sex and related issues. You couldn't make that movie today, but it's not pornography! And Brando gave another amazing performance, as he was often capable of doing. It almost seemed like a movie David Lynch or Kubrick might have made, ala Eyes Wide Shut or Lolits.
Look up wjst the actress said about it.
Stopped the video at 1:15. How can I take you serious for the rest of the video when you think "As good as it gets" is only 'fine' while I think it is one of the best movies ever made?
Same here
Agree. Disagree. Yes, Pacino should’ve won for some earlier performances. Helen Hunt was far better in her own movie, “Then She Found Me.” But I loved Dances with Wolves and Ordinary People. I think Scorsese is a little overrated, same as Spielberg, whose films always seem a little too self-conscious and perfect. Definitely Brokeback Mountain; I’d never seen it, but my adult daughter insisted that I watch it. I was overwhelmed. Sorry, but I loved Shakespeare in Love, and I thought Paltrow glowed from the inside. Dench should’ve won for Mrs. Brown; she actually won for her two minutes in Shakespeare. You lost me with ROMA; I looked forward to it. It’s one of my most-hated movies. Barf. Oh, and Benini was tragic and poignant; I don’t understand the denigration. My two cents.
I’m not mad at the best director win for Rocky. It’s an all time classic!!!
I'm sorry but I don't get why A Star is Born was so well received. With the exception of Bradley Cooper's performance, which was fine(not amazing, but above average), and a few songs, everything about that movie was cheesy and cringeworthy.
The dialogue, the acting, the tone, everything was so forced and badly handled. It's like I watched a different movie than the critics. It was overnominated and didn't deserve Best Picture/Director/Actress/Screenplay/Supporting Actor nominations, let alone wins.
Ian McKellan should have won Best Actor for Gods & Monsters.
No mention of The Hurt Locker winning best picture over Avatar, District 9, Inglorious Basterds and Up?
Yeah, it definitely didn’t have the cultural staying power as any of those other nominations, that’s insanely crazy.
The first 10 minutes of Up alone is simply wonderful.
Crash winning over brokeback mountain in 2005 was unforgivable
Honestly, Bogarde in The Night Porter is better than both Pacino in Godfather Part 2 and Nicholson in Chinatown in 1974.
Must be terrible to enter in history with the mark of biggest mistake of the Academy of all time like Gwyneth
Everybody knows Al Pacino should have gotten an Academy Award for one of The Godfather films, or another excellent performance he gave in the 70s like Serpico or have been nominated for Scarface or even the year he got his Oscar. He gave a better performance in Glengarry Glen Ross in Best Supporting Actor, that would have been better than his win for Scent of a Woman. Rather than Denzel winning for Malcolm X, RDJ winning for Chaplin or even Eastwood winning for Unforgiven, Pacino won because it was his turn to win since he didn’t get one before that point, of course Eastwood would get 2 Oscars that year for Best Director and Best Picture for Unforgiven, so he didn’t walk away empty handed, but Denzel Washington or Robert Downey, Jr. should have gotten it that year over Pacino and Pacino should have won 2 decades prior.
Unforgiven is my least favorite Clint Eastwood movie.
Paltrow winning for Shakespeare in Love was a travesty. So lame.
Ironic that Denzel Washington lost the Best Actor for a performance of a historical figure considering that the Academy is known for performances of famous people.
The academy has a long history of giving people Oscars because they deserved an Oscar years before but they messed up and didn't give it when they should've.
He may have been better in Glengarry Glen Ross, but he wasn't the best performance in that film. (And no, it wasn't Alec Baldwin.) Jack Lemmon owns that role and his performance is a master class. Even Pacino says so. (He later played the Shelley Levene role in a stage production of GGR.)
I don't agree with all of your entries, but I do agree with most of them. I did notice that you didn't mention anything from the Golden Age, maybe you just don't watch older movies. But the one I always point to as a "robbed" Oscar win was 1940 Best Actor. Robert Donat for "Goodbye Mr. Chips." That should have gone to James Stewart for "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," which was perhaps Stewart's finest performance (though figuring that out is pretty hard in itself when you consider his lifetime of performances). To be fair, he was also competing with Clark Gable for "Gone with the Wind" and Laurence Olivier for "Wuthering Heights", so maybe that was a case of the vote just getting split. And I think the Academy realize it, which is why Stewart got his "consolation" award the next year for "The Philadelphia Story." Now, I love that movie too, and I love Stewart in it, he was great. But it was hardly his best film. And that year, Stewart's consolation award caused Olivier to not get it for "Rebecca" or Henry Fonda for "Grapes of Wrath," or Charlie Chaplin for "The Great Dictator." Gosh, there were such a wealth of great films and actors in those days. No wonder they call it the Golden Age. Oh, and how can I not mention Humphrey Bogart losing for "Casablanca" to Paul Lukas in 1944?
In 1999 my main wish was for anything to win best picture rather than Saving Private Ryan. After the great battle scene, it was all downhill, basically as soon as anyone talked. The characters were smug and unlikable and the dialogue grated. It seemed that no-one except the Americans mattered. The French were treated by the movie like animals, the Germans as a pure evil force. Other Allied nations were not even mentioned in passing.
I greatly enjoyed Shakespeare in Love, a well written, well acted film with heart and wit but I was hoping for (and expecting) Cate Blanchett to win for Elizabeth. She glowed with star quality, the movie itself not so much.
I do agree that As Good As It Gets was humdrum, or worse.
Somewhat agree. The D-Day scene is epic. After that, it's maudlin nonsense.
Agree about downhill, disagree about the points mentioned. "The French were treated like animals" - if you remember, Vin Diesel's character died saving a french girl. The Germans were indeed a pure evil force, even if I'm not remembering seeing something like that in the movie
@@SuperCosty2010 I only saw the movie once. My memory of the French civilians was of them huddling in their destroyed houses while the US soldiers ambled past. They had no identity. My comment about the Germans relate to them being essentially a faceless single entity with no subtlety of representation.
To say that “Crash” did not age well is a massive understatement - it didn’t even hit the 5-minute mark 👍🏻