The only reason Marisa Tomei’s win was “controversial” was because it was a comedic performance against dramatic performances. Comedy is still not looked at seriously by the Academy unfortunately. But Tomei is 100% deserving of that Oscar! Her courtroom scene alone proves that!
Whomever saw My cousin, Vinny all of them can agree: she was the girl that stole the show! It's the shortest description ever but I think performances like that should make it at the Oscars...... Marisa totally deserved that golden statue.
She was fantastic in that role. I met her once when I worked at Paramount Studios back in the 90s. She was very nice and down to earth. Part of the reason she won was because the other candidates where in films that werent widely seen, except Howards End. To me the real controversy was Pacino winning for Scent of a Woman (Many considered it a 'career achievement win') instead of Downey Jr for Chaplin or Denzel for Malcolm X, both considerably better performances that Pacino ranting in a courtroom.
@@alldownhill01 I worked in special events back then. I was eating lunch in the commissary and it was crowded that day. I was eating alone at a two person table and there werent any extra seats anywhere so this woman asked if she could sit across from me at the table, the only empty seat. It was Ms Tomei. She was very nice and down to earth. Back then our office was directly across from the Wings soundstage and Steven Weber had set up a basketball hoop right next to our office. He used to come in and recruit guys for 'a little halfcourt fun' during down time. It wasnt a great job, but I do miss some of the people and strange occurrences.
@@Heathcoatman That’s so cool! I’ve seen a couple of celebrities in passing. I used to be a tour guide so would see a couple of them walking around on tours. Jaime Lee Curtis was definitely the nicest. I saw Henry Cavill from afar. I got to talk to Tom Holland right before he got Spider Man. But my favorite interaction was getting to shake Chris Pine’s hand at a special 50th anniversary Star Trek celebration the studio held. Now that I work in one of the buildings I don’t walk around often so I haven’t really seen a celebrity in a while.
It was douchebag critic Rex Reed who made this all controversial, as he was the one who accused presenter Jack Palance of reading the wrong name. Roger Ebert publicly called Reed for being out of line.
Almost two decades later, the general consensus is that "Brokeback Mountain" should have won "Best Picture" over "Crash." While the latter is a decent film in its own right, the former seemed far more deserving of the coveted award.
In 2018 Brokeback Mountain was one of the 25 films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry. Really says what film was the REAL winner of Best Picture at the 2006 Academy Awards.
I wholeheartedly agree. The writing, directing, acting, & cinematography was outstanding in "Brokeback Mountain". And, Ledger & Gyllenhaal put in two of the finest pieces of acting I have ever seen. The only acting that was even comparable to them was that of Mary Stuart Masterson & Mary-Louise Parker in "Fried Green Tomatoes". (Cicely Tyson did a splendid job as well.)
@@abhisheksharma-sb3er Truthfully, I don't remember the score. I watched the movie twice, back to back, & all I can remember is the end when Ledger pulls out Gyllenhaal's bloodied shirt from the back of his closet. My heart broke.
In the same year, Gwyneth won Best Actress is a scam, no one understand how her won instead of Fernanda Montenegro in Central Station/Central do Brasil.
That is really shameful. No one talks about this Shakespeare movie to this day or cares about it. I saw Saving private Ryan in the movie theater back in the day and it was unbelievable. One of the best war movies ever made. This was all that slimy little scum bag Harvey Weinstein and his politics behind the scenes.
also... the academy NEVER watches the best picture nominees anyway, AND... it may also have something to do with probably making the film Milk somehow count as a campaign for Sean Penn to win Best Actor.
Wish you'd shown the footage of the standing ovation in 2003, you can clearly see a group of ladies, visibly pissed off and refusing to clap. It's brilliant 👏 Be like those ladies
Mine is Interstellar not winning Best Original Score in 2014, don’t get me wrong The Grand Budapest Hotel has a great score from Alexander Desplat but when compared to Hans Zimmer’s music to Interstellar it just doesn’t feel right to me. Sorry guys.
Marisa Tomei was a delight in My Cousin Vinny Another similar win around that time was Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite in 1996. That one I can understand the controversy given she was a newcomer and was against more textured performances from seasoned actresses plus she won for a Woody Allen movie produced by Harvey Weinstein and her dad was Paul Sorvino. I get the nepotism/ favoritism there.
How Green Was my Valley is "lost to time" and "not bad"? 🙄 It is a fricking masterpiece. Kane is just a bigger masterpiece. It is clear that a lot of people who complain about HGWMV winning haven't seen it. 🤷♀️
Yeah, I had a feeling "the slap heard around the world" would be on this list. Will Smith could've had his first Oscar win in the bag, and technically, he did. But his actions were completely unwarranted, uncalled for, and really cheapened his tearful acceptance speech. I hope he's learned his lesson.
@@laurenpatrick4609 Perhaps, although in his defense at least he was comparing her to a likable movie character. In any case though, I think Will's response was AT LEAST as bad, if not worse.
- Marlon Brando not winning for "A streetcar named desire" - Anne Hathaway winning for Les Mis, had to be Amy Adams - Gwynth winning was just Weinstein - Marisa Tomei deserved the win!
Anne Hathaways whole performance was Oscar winning but honestly she could have only done i dreamed a dream and it would have been enough to win that Oscar
The Greatest Show on Earth winning Best Picture over High Noon. At least the only good thing about the film’s existence is partly giving us the legendary director Steve Spielberg, who wouldn’t have been so inspired to pursue a career in filmmaking. If you’ve seen The Fabelmans, you’ll understand what I’m talking about.
I think something more controversial about Bohemian Rhapsody is that the director was accused of going to the same "parties" as Kevin Spacey, so any Oscar that movie won, they couldn't mention the director.
@@jabberwock6 They put the award last on the show (instead of the usual best picture), because the producers thought it would be sweet to end on that note... Then Hopkins, who wasn't at the ceremony (due to health, age and covid reason) so the ceremony end abruptly. And that was... awkward...
@@jabberwock6 He had won many of the precursors like Golden Globe, Critics Choice, and Screen Actors Guild, so that combined with his shocking death led many to think he was the Oscar frontrunner.
M*A*S*H (1970) won the award for Best Adapted Screenplay despite the fact that very little of the scripted dialogue actually made it to the screen. The actors improvised much of the dialogue on-set. The only good thing about Shakespeare in Love was that it inspired the short film George Lucas in Love.
I think the 93rd Academy Awards had a pretty big controversy that got swept under the rug because it was the COVID awards. The whole show seemed to be leading up to a Posthumous Win for Chadwick Boseman in the Best Actor category for his role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. The awards even shifted the presentation of Best Actor and Best Picture to make Best Actor the final award of the night. Everything was set up perfectly until... Anthony Hopkins won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Father. Hopkins wasn't even at the ceremony to accept because of COVID. It all added up to probably the worst Oscars ever.
He is a criminal, he shouldn’t have even been nominated. If that’s the case Will Smith shouldn’t be punished either, since what he did was a lot less of a crime than Polanski.
@@punkwrestle Obviously. Smith’s incident wasn’t even close to as bad as what Polanski did I’m happy the direction of The Pianist got nominated, I’m just disappointed that the director had the be Polanski
The World Cup is awful due to the corruption of FIFA, all watch the last one in Qatar despite the scandals so I can tell that we all are nobody to question Roman Polanski
How 'bout silent film star Emil Jannings? In 1929 he became Oscar's first-ever Best Actor of the Year... and Oscar's first-ever BLACK EYE! A year after his win sound completely engulfed the international film industry and Jannings' thick European accent no longer endured him to American audiences. He figured with Talkies now the wave of the future he'd fly back to his native Germany to resume his film career there. And as soon as he returned to Germany he joined a certain up-&-coming Political Party! THAT'S RIGHT- Oscar's first Best Actor was a card-carrying NAZI! Note: to the best-of-my-knowledge B'nai B'rith has never tried to posthumously strip him of that Academy Award. If they did today they'd be met with ZERO opposition!
I think it`s also worth mentioning that John Wayne wanted to attack Sacheen Littlefeather at the Academy Awards. When people say he´s a Hollywood Legend and one of the greatest movie stars ever I just get angry cause all he was, was a racist in a bunch of racist movies. What Brando and Littlefeather did back then was amazing.
CODA winning over Power of the Dog didn't generate controversy, but imo, the latter deserved it as a much better structured and cohesive character study than the former which was sometimes cringy !
Citizen Kane was never going to win the Oscar with the story being based on the life about William Hearst, the most powerful newspaper magnate of the time
Another one is The Shape of Water winning best picture during the 2018 Oscars. That movie was so bad! My jaw dropped open when it won, I couldn't believe it. There were so many better choices that year. Also don't forget Dead Poet's Society losing out to Driving Miss Daisy.
Rami malek and the whole bohemian rhapsody film we’re deserving winners! I’m an avid life long queen fan and thought the film was fantastic especially Ramis performance as Freddie Mercury, it was iconic in my eyes, I thought he did Freddie proud!
@@chasehedges6775 yeah. I will say this, whoever wins Best Animated Feature better let the audience know that animation is not a genre for kids like those three women insinuated last year.
Agreed. He shouldn't even be making movies. He should be in jail. The girl was 12 🤢 I can't believe people in these comments are defending him and I still can't believe people gave him a standing ovation.
I will fight anyone on the topic of Green Book. Green Book was an excellent movie with absolutely amazing performances from Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen. Not only was it well acted, it had heart, humor, and the scenes were well shot and composed. People knock it for historical accuracy, completely forgetting that this is a movie and as such there will always be liberties taken with a film for the sake of telling a story. The story that Green Book sets out to tell, it tells well, and if you are looking for a more accurate and comprehensive look at Don Shirley's life, I suggest watching a few documentaries. Just because a film doesn't have a 100% accurate portrayal of a historical figure doesn't mean the film itself is bad. Look at The Greatest Showman. It doesn't have close to an accurate portrayal of P.T. Barnum, but the story the film itself tells is so much fun and Hugh Jackman gives an incredibly compelling performance.
Yes, that is the worst Oscar win of the 21st century, hands down!! Even Jason Bateman looked pissed off when Kate McKinnon announced it as the winner when they presented it together.
@@alexmeyer5260 Can you just move on, please? It’s already been 6 years since it happened and we don’t need to bring all these complaints back up again.
Saving Private Ryan had a powerful first 25 minutes, but only that opening was memorable; the rest was just a typical war movie. Shakespeare in Love deserved its win, though Judi Dench winning Best Supporting Actress for 10 minutes of screen time was perhaps a bit much.
The only ones I disagree with are Life of Pi wins Best Cinematography, Marisa Tomei wins Best Supporting Actress for My Cousin Vinny, Marlon Brando wins Best Actor for The Godfather and Shakespeare in Love wins Best Picture. Before what Will Smith did to Chris Rock, I was betting Benedict Cumberbatch should win Best Actor for The Power of the Dog.
I will never stop cracking up at all the whining and bitching about Crash winning Best Picture. Its one of the most nuanced and complex films about the MANY facets of racism in the modern world. Brokeback Mountain was a wonderful film, but I thought Crash was more than deserving. The "reviewers" are 95% white men who gave almost no appreciation for the topics that Crash covered
Out of Africa winning Best Picture in 1985 over Back to the Future, that was a huge one. Ordinary People beating Raging Bull in 1980 there are many more
Myrna Loy never got an Oscar Neither did Deborah Kerr Beulah Bondi, Claude Rains Edward G. Robinson so much of the Golden age of Hollywood was ignored.
I believe both Myrna Loy and Deborah Kerr would later receive Honorary Oscars, but you are right that despite several nominations Deborah Kerr never won and Myrna Loy was never nominated. Not to mention the other actors you listed who I think each received at least one nomination from the academy during their careers.
What? Life of Pi winning for Cinematography was controversial because the category is still distinct from VFX? There was way more controversy over the VFX award (underpayment, protests, company going bankrupt, etc.).
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) winning Best Picture, Best Editing and Best Cinematography... Yes, the movie is great, but come on. The Dark Knight wasn't even nominated...
Well this is clearly an example of the Oscars “like other awards” pick the safest and sexiest,safer pick than who truly deserves to win. Just look at the awards of the past and tell me what really deserves wins
I thought Marlon Brando FINALLY did a damn good job of acting, in "The Godfather" UNTIL I found out he didn't bother to remember any of his lines. He had all his lines written & placed all around the room for him to read. He did the same thing for "Apocalypse Now". As for Roman Polanski, "he pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor- statutory rape but fled to France before a sentencing hearing", IMHO, none of his movies should have been backed by or seen by a USA citizen. He should have been ousted from The Academy as soon as he pleaded guilty.
How Green was my Valley not only won over Citizen Kane. Also over The Maltese Falcon (much better than Citizen Cane) and Sergeant York. And sorry, Saving Private Ryan was not the movie that had to win in 1999. Only the beginning sequence was great, the rest of the movie was casual war stuff. Shakespeare in Love was better as whole movie. How ever, the best of the nominated movies that year was clearly Life is beautiful. And The Pianist was the best movie that year and Polanski the best director. Point. As usual, this channel shows just the mainstream view on everything. No own ideas, no own thinking. Nothing own.
The fact that Bohemian Rhapsody has more Oscars than The Shaksaw Redemption, Raging Bull, Pulp Fiction, Citizen kane and 2001 is just ridiculous!! Let alone about that Editing Win!
How is "difficult to find any justification for Polanski's win"? What's to "justify"? I don't recall "The Pianist" being an insulting stinker. As a matter of fact, I recall it being a masterpiece
Idk man. Maybe the film cheated in the Oscars. In the words of AJ from Fairly Oddparents another movie hand the prize at their grasps until The Pianist stole it out of the blue
Green Book didn't misrepresent a narrative....the surviving family merely dissented from its portrayal but only the two people portrayed by Ali and Mortensen know if it's authentic or not.
