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Post by vinnyt on Mar 22, 2017 4:13:32 GMT
That random Oscar nomination that just doesn't make sense when looking back.
Stuff like Give 'Em Hell, Harry getting a Best Actor nomination
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Peter Ustinov winning Best Supporting Actor for Topkapi which was his only win all year and the films only nomination.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 22, 2017 4:23:02 GMT
most recently, Hacksaw Ridge for editing. It makes no sense.
Ingrid Bergman's win for Murder on the Orient Express is pretty baffling too. She had like five minutes of screentime and she played a shy character with very little presence. Gielgud's nomination doesn't make much sense either, given that Perkins' work was much more meaty.
Ideally the nominations should have gone to Bacall and Perkins, not Bergman and Gielgud.
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Post by dmitriyuriev on Mar 22, 2017 5:37:02 GMT
most recently, Hacksaw Ridge for editing. It makes no sense. Ingrid Bergman's win for Murder on the Orient Express is pretty baffling too. She had like five minutes of screentime and she played a shy character with very little presence. Gielgud's nomination doesn't make much sense either, given that Perkins' work was much more meaty. Ideally the nominations should have gone to Bacall and Perkins, not Bergman and Gielgud. How does HR editing win make no sense? I think many thought it would be either that film or LLL. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2017 11:43:42 GMT
most recently, Hacksaw Ridge for editing. It makes no sense. Ingrid Bergman's win for Murder on the Orient Express is pretty baffling too. She had like five minutes of screentime and she played a shy character with very little presence. Gielgud's nomination doesn't make much sense either, given that Perkins' work was much more meaty. Ideally the nominations should have gone to Bacall and Perkins, not Bergman and Gielgud. How does HR editing win make no sense? I think many thought it would be either that film or LLL. Many were considering the race to be between La La Land and Arrival, but yeah, Hacksaw Ridge was seen as a dark horse. |
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Post by JangoB on Mar 22, 2017 12:25:14 GMT
I love "The Fugitive" but its Best Cinematography nomination is very strange to me. Especially when stuff like "The Age of Innocence" and "The Remains of the Day" got left out.
"Batman Forever" nominated for Cinematography is another one. I mean, I understand that they probably appreciated the out-there look of it (and let's be honest, it certainly is a contender for MOST cinematography with all the insane lights and tilted angles and the overall neon madness of it), but it still feels like a strange choice for them.
I'm also not particularly sure how the fuck they voted for "Il postino" for Original Score when their BP winner "Braveheart" was in the mix. I love that Luis Bacalov got to be an Oscar winner, but if we look (or listen) at the achievement itself, the score is very minimalistic and it's basically one theme recycled a bunch of times. Whereas "Braveheart" is kinda everything an Oscar-winning score is supposed to be.
Also, "Romeo and Juliet" winning for Cinematography back in 1968 while "2001" wasn't even nominated is just ridiculous.
There're many more examples, but these instantly came to mind.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 22, 2017 14:29:46 GMT
most recently, Hacksaw Ridge for editing. It makes no sense. Ingrid Bergman's win for Murder on the Orient Express is pretty baffling too. She had like five minutes of screentime and she played a shy character with very little presence. Gielgud's nomination doesn't make much sense either, given that Perkins' work was much more meaty. Ideally the nominations should have gone to Bacall and Perkins, not Bergman and Gielgud. Gielgud wasn't nominated, Senile old man. shut up ray |
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Mar 22, 2017 14:31:18 GMT
How does HR editing win make no sense? I think many thought it would be either that film or LLL. Many were considering the race to be between La La Land and Arrival, but yeah, Hacksaw Ridge was seen as a dark horse. I know, but it was still an awful choice. It was by far my least favorite of the nominees. |
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Post by vinnyt on Mar 26, 2017 4:48:06 GMT
What was that one Best Costume nominee from the 70's that the most interesting thing was like some hazmat suits?
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Post by countjohn on Mar 27, 2017 0:17:22 GMT
I agree with a lot of these. Namely Bergman, Batman Forever for cinematography, and The Fugitive for cinematography (it being a BP nominee also seems kind of ridiculous to me)
I know the movie was very popular at the time, but Babe getting so many important nominations seems strange in hindsight. A movie about a talking big doesn't exactly seem like the kind of thing you'd give BP or acting nominations to.
There's lots of weird technical ones, too. Star Trek IV got a cinematography nomination. I'm a big fan of the movie, but the cinematography is very pedestrian, standard stuff. If I were to give a Star Trek movie a cinematography nod I'd go with Khan, Search for Spock, or even TMP before that one.
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Post by jakob on Mar 27, 2017 1:47:25 GMT
I don't understand how anyone could give #1 votes to Alan Arkin in Argo just for saying "Argo fuck yourself" over a performance like Waltz or Hoffman, and even moreso over performances from Bardem and DiCaprio who weren't nominated.
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Post by tenenbaumkingdom on Mar 28, 2017 17:23:57 GMT
I don't understand how anyone could give #1 votes to Alan Arkin in Argo just for saying "Argo fuck yourself" over a performance like Waltz or Hoffman, and even moreso over performances from Bardem and DiCaprio who weren't nominated. I will second this. Arkin's nomination for Argo is baffling, considering the number of superior Supporting Actor performances that got shut out from receiving Oscar nominations that year - Javier Bardem in Skyfall, Leo DiCaprio in Django Unchained, Ezra Miller in The Perks of Being a Wallflower and Dwight Henry in Beasts of the Southern Wild - all gave stronger, noteworthy performances than Arkin's that year. Yet again, 2012 was an peculiar year for baffling, odd Oscar nominations (ie. Jacki Weaver in Silver Linings Playbook over Judi Dench or Nicole Kidman or Emma Watson, Flight for Original Screenplay over Looper, Life of Pi for Adapted Screenplay over The Perks of Being a Wallflower, etc.) |
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Post by ChairfaceC on Mar 28, 2017 23:18:13 GMT
Best Actress
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