Lol before I could hit reply I saw your post. 100% agree. Denzel should have won for Glory or any of the other movies pre Training Day. I almost feel like they gave him that Oscar as a F you.
Emi Grant he wouldn't have been against Tom Hanks because because if Morgan Freeman got nominated for his role in Shawshank it would've been for best supporting role not best actor.
Robin Williams was incredible in Good Will Hunting and with out a doubt he deserved that Oscar, sure I would have loved to see him get an Oscar for his other movies, but not getting rid of good will hunting
Strangely the 2 movies he thought he should have won for are not even close to some of his best movies. I mean Insomnia wasn't very good and One Hour Photo was absolutely terrible.
That's why I questioned it. I mean, I could understand What Dreams May Come or Dead Poet's Society or Good Morning Vietnam but neither of those films are good and "playing a serial killer" shouldn't automatically mean you earned an Oscar.
Marlon Brando and Robert Deniro deserved their Best Actor Oscars for the exact same films... So from that perspective, no he shouldn't have given the two Actors playing his character's father both smashed it out of the park.
I think Pacino should have won best Actor for the second part. Deniro won supporting actor now that I remember it. Still his part was the best, and matching Brando with his own Oscar winning performance in a younger version of the same role was fitting. But yeah, if they didn't "give"(lol because he didn't accept it personally) Brando that Oscar I would have been pissed. His performance as Vito Corleone was iconic and masterful. He was the title character of the first film after all. If he wasn't competing against and overshadowed by superior performances from the exact same films, you might have been on to something.
I can't sit and read 400+ comments but the fact that Denzel Washington wasnt mentioned on this list is a major oversight. He won for Training Day but look how he killed it in so many other films prior. Malcolm X, John Q, and more.
I agree, and for most, he honestly thought to be a shoo-in that year, same for RDJ for Chaplin, everyone knew it was coming down to those two but it ended up being pacino for scent of a woman. I think that Oscar was for the many performances from pacino that he had lost out on. There's been many upsets like that one, same thing happened with MCD (Green Mile) & Haley Joel Osment (Sixth Sense) and Michael Caine won it. They usually give it to a senior actor when it seems to be a hard choice. Alan Arkin beating out Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls) & Djmon Hounsou (Blood Diamond) is another one. I do agree, Denzel killed it in his other films, I thought he'd win for The Hurricane but Crowe beat him out for Gladiator, some thought that Crowe would've won for A Beautiful Mind but his incident cost them the Oscar and they gave it to Denzel, who some thought was due for one after The Hurricane performance and how good he was in Training Day. I do think he should've been nominated for John Q. His speech to his son hands down should've won him an Oscar.
Agreed. And while it's true that Washington's performance in Training Day was a tour de force, I found it pretty offensive that an actor known for so many dignified and heroic roles (like Steve Biko and Malcolm X) wasn't recognized for his consistently amazing acting until he played an evil, dirty cop who is graphically, excessively executed at the end. The snuff film quality of it was dusturbing. I couldn't help but feel the Academy was rewarding him just as much for reinforcing the "white people good, black people bad" stereotype as for his superb performance. If he'd already won for any number of his other outstanding performances, it wouldn't have felt so strange.
Yes he did, which is why that comment was strange. Though I do believe Waltz deserved the Oscar more than Leo, the performance by Leo was still very good.
Academy friendly doesn't mean it can't win in other categories (Mad Max won oscars... for things like costume design and sound editing), just that it won't win in 'the big three' = Best Picture, Actor, Actress.
They may have also meant just his character specifically wasn't very oscar friendly. Waltz played a bounty hunter killing slave owners... Leo played a cruel and sadistic slave owner. Which one looks better to a committee?
Yes, the Color Purple should have SWEPT the Oscars. Spielberg nail the directing. Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, the actress that play Suge. All should have been nominated.
Oh I agree so much! I LOVE Whoopi as Celie! She was so relatable, sad, moving and humorous. You can’t help but love her and that’s all thanks to Whoopi’s performance.
I thought he was actually mentally handicapped. I had NO IDEA that was DiCaprio. To me, that's real acting, when you don't even see the actor beneath the performance.
HAL 9000 Yea he also had a role in some of the Critters films before What's eating Gilbert Grape but my point is that the he deserved to has an oscar from his first roles in the 1990s but the Academy gave him the award 20 years later,when he's should've won at least 5 oscars.
Maggie Karabel Me too,I thougth they took mentaly unstayble kid to perform in the film.That's how you deserve an oscar(he was so good and he even was a teenager at the time )
Yes!!! 🙌🙌🙌 I’ve been saying that for years. Not taking away how amazing he was in The Revenant, but he should’ve won the Oscar for Gilbert Grape or even The Aviator 😩
@Maggie, The Oscars are just some Hollywood people giving themselves a highfive. It's nonsense. If there's some low budget movie with slightly unknown actors, they won't get acknowledged by the Academy. Don't worry about it. Good actors know when they're good, they don't need an award to see that.
Stop, i hate saying it like this, it was indeed impressive, she was pretty good in la la land and had many facial expressions to recognize, but ye she was better in favourite but its not like "not impressive at all" in la la land what youre calling out there
when i watched la la land i felt like mia and emma were they same person and i really didn’t see a difference between the two. i thought she was amazing in the favorite.
Hands down worst pick for an Oscar win in the wrong film! Dame Judi Dench!!!! Who won for Shakespeare in Love (Supporting), when should easily walked it in for Mrs Brown (Lead Actress)! On what earth is Hellen Hunt a better actress?!?!
Actually Ellen Burstyn should have taken the Oscar for Requiem for a Dream, not Jennifer Connelly. Ellen's performance was the most horrific thing I've seen in a movie.
Marcia Gay Hardon (Pollock) "Outstanding Actress In A SUPPORTING Role" for the year 2000! Jennifer would NOT have been nominated for Lead (like Ellen Burstyn that year, Julia Roberts slightly Robbed her even though I love Erin Brockovich) but for "Supporting" since she was ONE of the Leads but not what some may consider the MAIN in "Requiem"! But yes I agree Ellen and Jennifer were and STILL are BOTH incredible and amazing to watch and still have OSCARS on their mantle (1974's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore/Lead Actress) and (2001's A Beautiful Mind/Supporting) just Marcia and Julia got the spotlight that particular specific night!
Ellen Burstyn was nominated for Best Leading Actress for Requiem for a Dream. Jennifer Connelly was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for A Beautiful Mind and she won. But Requiem for a Dream came out a year BEFORE A Beautiful Mind did, and Ellen Burstyn lost the Best Actress award to Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich.
Denzel for Training Day. Lets be honest. Denzel was great in Training Day. But he killed it in Malcom X. He got that Oscar for Malcom X through Training Day.
Denzel had just won in 1989 for Glory, though you could point to a dozen performances in the 90's that he could have should have won for (Siege, He Got Game, Philadelphia).
Death Trooper As amazing as he was in Malcom X, the most deserving winner that year was Clint Eastwood as William Munny. Of course, Al Pacino's lifetime achiement award screwed them both, so.
Rachel Barrs I think she should've won for her incredible performance in Doubt in 2008. She was only in the film for several minutes, yet stood toe to toe with Meryl Streep and even stood above her in their climactic scene
Need to add to this such an overlooked ballot; Bale should have won (and been nominated) for The Prestige. That movie in its entirety is concentrated brilliance!
Heath Ledger who won for The Dark Knight and should have ALSO won for Brokeback Mountain. PSH is great as Capote but it feels like an impersonaton while HL makes you forget he's acting as Ennis Del Mar. He litererally breathes different in the role, bringing life to the tortured-by-desire soul-blue collar everyman.
My favorite Heath Ledger performance is actually A Knight's Tale. I sob at least twice every time I watch it: when he finds his dad again and when he gets knighted. (Hugging and smelling his dead lovers' clothes at the end of Brokeback does it, too, though.) Ledger doesn't act, he feels. He feels everything as if it's 100% real.
He's not an actor but Ennio Morricone has won just one oscar for the soundtrack of "The hateful eight " (which it's amazing and well deserved) and an oscar at the career, but let's be honest he composed some of the most iconic soundtracks in cinema's history who definitively deserved the academy award; just think about "Once upon the time in the west" The good the bad and the ugly" , "Malena", " for a fistful of dollars" .....
I haven't seen Malcolm X since I was a teenager but I remember it being extremely average. Now if you said Remember The Titans, John Q, Antwone Fisher, Glory, Fences, Flight, The Equalizer, Deja Vu..... Or practically any other Denzel Washington performance then I probably would've agreed.
I would've thought Bale's performance in Rescue Dawn would be on here but nothing beats Patrick Bateman killing someone to Huey Lewis and The News's Hip to Be Square.
I think you are the only person in the world besides me who lauds Rescue Dawn. Bale was brilliant and it was such an amazing story. Agree his performance here was Oscar-worthy.
Colin Firth. Got his Oscar for The King's Speech, should've already won for A Single Man. His acting is superb. I dare you all to watch the beginning of the movie when he receives the call informing him about the death of his partner. Truly, heartwrenching and sublime in acting.
Malcolm X should have gotten Best Picture that year, too, but I don't even think it was nominated. The Hurricane was an incredible performance by Denzel, as well.
Wow, this is a really good list. I agree with every one of these "swaps". I always thought Leonardo should have won for Blood Diamond. That accent is hard to nail.
J.D. Cantu That's the joke. No nomination for Nightcrawler was ridiculous. It's up there in snubs with no nomination for Jim Carrey in The Truman Show.
And as you watch the video you see why he didn't win for Malcom X, Al Pacino who should have won for Glengarry Glen Ross that year not Scent of a Woman. Whoopie blind man drives a car and takes a prep school kid on an adventure while he dances with a woman. He played it kind of stiff in my opinion.
Chibihalo2 Pacino should've won decades earlier for Godfather 1 and/or 2 and for Dog Day Afternoon. The Academy kept screwing Pacino over, so they finally gave him a Best Actor Oscar...which screwed Denzel's masterful performance as Malcolm X. Love that you mentioned Glengarry Glen Ross, as that was the more impressive performance by far from Pacino in 1992
@@nujeru99 Pacino was fantastic in the first godfather but could you say he was better than Brando who won best actor? It is a tough one as technically they are both the leads and I thought both performances are fantastic.
Everyone seems to forget about Scorsese's Shutter Island, in my opinion one of Dicaprio's best roles of his career and criminally underrated and overlooked at the same time.
Going a bit further back in time... Humphrey Bogart won an Oscar for The African Queen, which is a lovely film and a good performance in its own right. But it was widely believed at the time that the award was more of a belated acknowledgement for his impeccable performance in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre the previous year. Henry Fonda won for On Golden Pond (which admittedly I haven't seen) but NOT for The Grapes of Wrath. Coincidentally the year Fonda was nominated for TGoW, James Stewart won for The Philadelphia Story - he should've won for It's a Wonderful Life instead, or even Vertigo (which he wasn't nominated for). Sidney Poitier won for Lillies of the Field but wasn't even nominated for In the Heat of the Night.
I really don't understand why you said Penn didn't deserve his Oscar for Mystic River. I still remember "Is that my daughter in there???" He absolutely deserved that one and SHOULD HAVE also won for Dead Man Walking.
Do 10 Times an Acting Performance Was Nominated for the Wrong Category (Anthony Hopkins for Silence of the Lambs, Marlon Brando for The Godfather, etc.)
Jeff Bridges should have also won for Starman, and I think Denzel absolutely deserved the Oscar for his incredible performance in The Hurricane the year before his Training Day victory.
One of the best performances I have ever seen was Robin Williams as Popeye. This is not a joke. Nobody, not even Jim Carrey, could do an iconic cartoon character the justice they deserved quite like Robin did here. This is especially impressive because who the hell would have expected so much from such a film?
I personally think Leo should have won for both WoWS as well as The Revenant. People under-value how much he was able to convey while only being able to use his eyes for most of the film
Personally, I think that the following two actors should be included in such a list. (1) PAUL NEWMAN. He later won for 'The Color of Money', but sheesh, he was not only passed over for 'Cool Hand Luke' -- unbelievable! -- but also in 'The Hustler', 'The Sting' and *other* great films. (2) NATALIE PORTMAN. She later won for 'Black Swan' but holy cow was she amazing when very young in 'The Professional'. On Christian Bale who, I think, deserves three or four Oscars by now(!), the video omitted citing 'The Machinist', where Bale's absolutely stunning performance matches the level of his performance in 'American Psycho' although in an entirely different character. Further, it is an omission not to mention his performance, as a youth, in 'Empire of the Sun'. Spielberg hung an entire movie on this young, young talent, and Bale knocked it out of the park. Similarly, on DiCaprio, his role in 'The Basketball Diaries' was not mentioned in the video even though he, too, was so young even as he fully inhabited the hellish depths to which heroin addition can take a person. I was happy that 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' was mentioned in the video since DiCaprio's performance in it was absolutely brilliant, but way back then he was also brilliant in 'The Basketball Diaries'. It's hard to believe the talent and obvious dedication to craft that Portman, Bale, and DiCaprio showed so early.
You forgot about Denzel Washington who won the oscar for Training Day when he should've won it for Malcolm X. Hard to miss that one especially when he lost to Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman..... which you included in this video
Some old ones: Henry Fonda won for On Golden Pond, should have won for The Grapes of Wrath almost 40 years earlier. Jimmy Stewart won for The Philadelphia Story, should have won for Mr. Smith Goes To Washington. Humphrey Bogart won for The African Queen, should have won for The Treasure of Sierra Madre. John Wayne won for True Grit, should have won for The Searchers.
Sean Penn was on another level in Mystic River. It's one of his best ever performances. He absolutely should have won the Oscar for the film that year.
Leonardo did not win for The wolf of wall street because he was up against Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club. It is foolish not to compare who they were up against. P.S - Leonardo should have won for The Aviator
Here's some I think deserve some recognition too 1. Jack Nicholson- The Shining 2. Henry Fonda- 12 Angry Men 3. Jimmy Stewart- It's a Wonderful Life 4. Jamie Foxx- Collateral 5. Leonardo DiCaprio- What's Eating Gilbert Grape 6. Gene Hackman- Mississippi Burning 7. Viola Davis- The Help 8. Robert De Niro- Taxi Driver, Cape Fear 9. Richard Dreyfuss- Jaws 10. Marlon Brando- A Streetcar Named Desire
Cate Blanchett: Elizabeth > Aviator Paul Newman: Cool Hand Luke > The Color of Money Meryl Streep: The Devil Wears Prada > The Iron Lady Henry Fonda: 12 Angry Men or The Grapes of Wrath > On Golden Pond
I think DiCaprio should have won for many roles, such as those that you mentioned, but I also think he was very worthy of winning for The Departed, which is one of my favourite movies ever, partially because of his fantastic performance.
There's NO WAY a man could've won over Matthew's work in Dallas Buyer's Club. It was absolute perfection. So, there was no space for DiCaprio that year.
Paul Newman won his for The Color of Money a good movie, when he should have won for The Hustler (and Cool Hand Luke and about half the movies in his freakin' career).
The Starkiller - Edward Norton over Roberto Begnini - Al Pacino over Art Carney - Mickey Rourke over Sean Penn - Jeremy Renner over Jeff Bridges (I apologize) - Ellen Burstyn over Julia Roberts - Tom Hanks over Russell Crowe - Russell Crowe over Denzel Washington - Denzel Washington, Robert Downey Jr over Al Pacino - Michael Keaton over Eddie Redmayne (Not in the same level as the others, though).
Emi Grant the wrestler was not a good film an half of wrestler spot were false, I don’t mean inside the ring but the story of him. And seriously norton over benigni?? I mean American history X was awesome but la vita è bella was such good only thanks to him
Buena Vista The Wrestler was amazing, it's depiction of the independent scene was quite accurate and yes, Norton's performance was better than Benigni's (sorry for butchering his name constantly).
Red Star I think Jim Carrey ran over an Academy members dog or something. He was not even nominated for Truman Show!!! He has had no Oscar nominations in his life!
I was thinking of starting a RU-vid Channel where I review films that won Oscars and do seperate videos on "Oscar Reshufflings", where I reassign Oscars to films that have objectively stood the test of time for that quality (e.g. Rear Window for it's film editing and cinematography, The Truman Show for Best Actor and The Dark Knight for Best Picture, Best Director etc.). In my opinion the Oscars have potential for being awards that will tell future generations what the best films of the year are but they are always bogged down by rewarding whatever's popular, whatever ticks certain boxes for them and whatever has the best advertising or promotional campaigning. If I had the time I would most likely do that. Any thoughts?
So right about American Psycho! Bale's performance still blows my mind every time I watch that flick. Sadly, I think everyone knew the Best Actor award that year was going to be either Russell Crowe for Gladiator or Tom Hanks for Cast Away, and as usual, the Academy doesn't know a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity until it's passed on.
i had known Jeff Bridges since I was a kid, and I loved him in K-PAX. I hadn't heard of The Big Lebowski by then but when I saw it my jaw was literally dropping all throughout. That day I knew Jeff Bridges was an amazing actor
