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Mar 2, 2024 · Ron Howard’s “A Beautiful Mind” is the prototypical Oscar winner for Best Picture: A well-made biographical drama about a misunderstood genius facing an obstacle he needs to overcome — in ...
Mar 10, 2024 · 4. Do the Right Thing — Best Picture 1990. 3. Singin’ in the Rain — Best Picture 1953. 2. Vertigo — Best Picture 19559. Thus, throughout the Oscars’ 95-year history, many actors, movies ...
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Mar 1, 2022 · Paramount Pictures/DreamWorks. One of the most notable Best Picture snubs occurred in 1999 at the 71 st Academy Awards, where "Shakespeare in Love" and "Saving Private Ryan" went head-to-head ...
- Alfred Hitchcock
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
- Glenn Close
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Barbra Streisand
- Citizen Kane
- John Hughes
- The Princess Bride
- Stanley Kubrick
- Amy Adams
The Master of Suspense never won, despite Best Director nominations for his work on Rebecca (1940), Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), Rear Window (1954) and Psycho(1960). “It’s very puzzling,” Isenberg says. “There’s really no good explanation.” He did eventually get a lifetime achievement award in 1968, but it was too little, too late. For his s...
Forty years after its release, Steven Spielberg’s wondrous story of a boy and his space-alien friend can still make your heart soar. The biggest blockbuster of the 1980s received nine nominations yet only succeeded in the technical categories of Best Original Score, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound and Best Sound Effects Editing. Richard Attenboroug...
She’s hardly a loser, but Close, 75, holds the record for the actress with the most Oscar nods who’s never won, with eight. “She’s done some edgy work, and that edginess may have kept her from making it over the threshold with the Academy,” Isenberg suggests. Indeed, she’s been noted—but never given an Oscar—for her standout turns in uneasy dramas ...
How can the Academy be so…obtuse?! Just about everyone’s favorite prison drama landed seven nominations in 1995, including for Best Picture and honors for Morgan Freeman in the Best Actor category. But he, along with everyone else associated with the film, went home empty-handed. Blame Tom Hanks and his Forrest Gumpjuggernaut, which steamrolled the...
In the 94-year history of the Oscars, just a handful of women have been nominated for Best Director. (Jane Campion took home the top prize in 2022 for her searing Western The Power of the Dog, her second directing nomination.) “The Academy was a boys’ club for a long time,” Isenberg says. “They’ve now finally started to course-correct.” Perhaps the...
Orson Welles’ 1941 opus—No. 1 on the American Film Institute’s Greatest Movies of All Time—only converted one of its nine nominations into a win (for Best Original Screenplay). For Best Picture, it lost to John Ford’s family saga How Green Was My Valley. What happened? “Citizen Kane’s story is quite demanding and not necessarily aspirational,” Isen...
Don’t you forget about him. While writer-director Hughes was best known for teen-oriented fare such as The Breakfast Club (1985), Pretty in Pink (1986) and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986), he also wrote the screenplays for the comedy classics National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983), Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987) and Home Alone(1990). He never snar...
Altogether now: Inconceivable! The 1987 Rob Reiner–directed gem will never not be watchable good times. Mandy Patinkin, who played revenge-seeking swordsman Iñigo Montoya, once compared its ageless legacy to that of The Wizard of Oz. But when the Oscar nominations were announced that year, the feeling was one big pit of despair: The film received m...
He directed some of the most iconic films ever—Spartacus (1960), Dr. Strangelove (1964), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), The Shining (1980) and Full Metal Jacket (1987) among them—and never heard his name called. “Artists who turn out to be ahead of their time tend not to win Oscars,” Isenberg says. The famously elusive Kubrick was nominated four tim...
Though she’s only 48, the flame-haired actress has already racked up six nominations (five supporting, one lead)—but those don’t include her stellar performance as an alien-speaking linguist in Arrival(2016), for which she was truly snubbed. And each time, as a nominee, she’s had to stay in her seat and applaud as the victors ascended to the podium...
Mar 8, 2024 · Actual winner: John G. Avildsen, “Rocky”. Robert De Niro, left, and Martin Scorsese on the set of “Taxi Driver.”. Columbia Pictures/Getty Images. This disturbing story of a dangerously ...
Jan 25, 2012 · The 10 Biggest Oscar Snubs of 2009. Submitted by BrianTT on January 23, 2009 - 10:31am. Benicio Del Toro. Brian Tallerico. Bruce Springsteen. Christopher Nolan. Dear Zachary. Eddie Marsan.
Feb 25, 2014 · Warner Bros. "Goodfellas" was beat out at the 1991 Oscars by Kevin Costner's "Dances with Wolves." Starring Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese's gangster epic remains one of ...
