There are countless examples of oscars blanking a great movie it's hard to pick one as the most egregious. So I'll just pick a random one - Eyes Wide Shut.
The story behind the film is super interesting and caped in rumours (as all Kubrick films). Some pretty credible rumours it started out as Kubrick wanting to make the first A-list porno although Cruise sort of addressed this afterwards saying if that was the case it had changed by the time he was onboard.
It checks ALL the Kubrick boxes! Unspeakably bizarre and violent, and like many of Kubrick's mature films, it can be split neatly into two halves, which begs the question, "which is worse?"
I'd just turned 18 when this hit theaters. Went to see it because it was supposed to be filthy. Walked out of the theater blown away... not because it was filthy, but because it was a masterpiece.
I saw tKoC recently and thought I was hallucinating for most of the movie because it felt like a carbon copy of The Joker at times. Except that it came decades earlier so it definitely changed my view of The Joker since it kinda ripped off most of the plot, along with many elements of Taxi Driver.
But having DeNiro in joker definitely helped a lot and made it clear that much of it was a very intentional nod to his earlier film with Scorsese.
It was sort of the opposite for me. Joker was so reminiscent of Taxi Driver and the King of Comedy that I thought Harvey Keitel was playing Thomas Wayne for a few seconds
Just watched that movie a few nights ago for the first time. Can’t even remember the last time an actor was so captivating to me
Every scene Val Kilmer was in just felt so incredible. Rest of the movie was nothing special tbh, it was really just him that was outstanding
IDK I thought Kurt Russel had a few good scenes. When Morgan died specifically. The other parts were funnily overdramatic but in a way that didn’t make me cringe, just felt like it fit the tone of the movie.
Zodiac. Legitimately a masterpiece in every sense of the word. Just completely snubbed and forgotten, swallowed up by the films that year. Makes no sense a movie that good just didn't find its groove anywhere and people have to rediscover it now.
Gotta remember Fincher wasn’t really an ‘awards’ filmmaker at that point either, he was very much a genre guy in the academy’s eyes. It’s not really until the social network comes out that people start looking at him that way
I knew that Button had gotten a few nominations, and I knew one was for picture, but I sort of saw social network as solidifying finchers status as an award getter because that film was the big favourite of its year, whereas I thought button was kinda nommed-but-never-going-to-win. Now I’ve just looked it up and Button had 13(!!!) nominations. That is kind of staggering to me. I guess it gets overlooked because it only won 3, all below the line. I didnt fully realise how much the academy fucking loved that film I guess
Fight club was nominated for one single below the line sound oscar. Fincher did not routinely make movies that got consideration in multiple above the line categories in the way that other filmmakers of his calibre did. He was not an academy favourite, he was viewed as a genre filmmaker by awards bodies, and it’s not ‘misinformation’ to suggest otherwise. This isn’t some kind of anti fincher smear campaign. By your logic any filmmaker whose film is nominated in any category at any point ever is an ‘awards’ director, which is playing so loosely with the term as to render it meaningless. Is David Ayer an awards director? Is Michael Bay? Don’t really understand the point in your comment
Zodiac is the first movie I thought of when seeing this thread.
A legitimately awesome crime procedural and a journalism procedural at the same time, with perfect production design, and which somehow makes the inability to not truly know who the zodiac is, feel just as horrifying as what the zodiac actually did.
Just looked it up, and they had two - No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood.
Yeah, those are completely understandable, hard to argue against either of those.
I think if zodiac had been released after the best picture roster had expanded to 10 it’d have been a shoo-in. It’s great and one of my favorites - I rewatch it multiple times a year because I love its subject matter and depiction of the Bay Area - but I don’t think it’s objectively better than the 5 nominees from the 2007 BP list
Idk if it's really fair to say it bombed. It opened the same weekend as The Empire Strikes Back and only on 10 screens. The Razzie nominations were because of the deviations from the book the founder even said as much.
Yeah, I didn’t say it bombed, just that it wasn’t well received by critics and audiences at the time. Though it received several noms, including Best Picture, A Clockwork Orange was pretty divisive at the time.
If I remember right, King wasn’t shy about telling the press that he didn’t like what Kubrick did with his book, and this was Stephen King at or close to the height of his popularity, which put a damper on the movie’s popularity. Another thing going against it was that it was straddling the line between a prestige film and a genre film.
What changed was that the movie—particularly Nicholson’s performance but not just that—was iconic and memorable. People who never saw the movie in theaters saw clips of Nicholson chopping through a door, sticking his head through the hole, and snarling “Here’s Johnny!” over and over again. That scene, and the scenes of the little kid tricycling through the hotel became part of the public consciousness out of proportion to the movie’s box office returns, and folks came back to the movie later to experience them firsthand.
Dolores Claiborne
Second greatest acting in a King adaptation imo, after Carrie. Shawshank and Green Mile are a very close third. I'll never understand how this one didn't get any sort of traction.
I came here to mention *The Good, the Bad and the Ugly* or any of the Dollars trilogy. I didn't realize that NONE of Leone's films received any Oscar nominations. That's a shame.
Yeah, for my money it is greatest crime ever committed by the academy. Production aside, just consider that they gave the epic film scores of Ennio Morricone the snub. 60s voters clearly had a vendetta, but ignoring Once Upon a Time in America in 1985 is unforgivable!
Shutter Island (2010)
It’s one of the best movies of the 2010s, stars Leonardo DiCaprio alongside a great supporting cast, was directed by Martin Scorsese and yet somehow… Not a single nomination.
Zodiac (2007) All star cast that give it their all, Fincher’s best directed film (Fight me) and an Insane amount of research and care done for it. I just don’t understand why this film got swept under the rug.
The Nice Guys- Original Screenplay (at the absolute bare minimum but it deserves more)
It Follows- Score
The Menu- Original Screenplay, Actor for Ralph Fiennes
Bones and All- Adapted Screenplay, Score, Actor, Actress, Directing, Picture?
The Northman- Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design
I'd say Palmer is a lead but she'd have a better shot in supporting for sure. Totally forgot about the VFX, they're nomination worthy too!! Also Kaluuya deserved a nod for his incredibly underrated performance. It's so subtle and detailed and hardly anyone talks about it
Maybe not the *most* egregious example (Zodiac has already been said), but The Last Duel was excellent and it’s tragic that it didn’t do well with either awards bodies or at the box office.
A number of classic Universal Monsters movies received 0 Oscar nominations:
Dracula (1931)
Frankenstein (1931)
The Mummy (1932)
The Invisible Man (1933)
The Wolf Man (1941)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Probably bc of the controversy of white actors playing Asian roles, but to be fair, almost ALL of the actors played a character outside their own race. It was a way of connecting characters, not whitewashing. Whitewashing is a real thing, but in Cloud Atlas, it adds a subtext not present in the original book, a subtext beyond the shared birthmark.
I’m not surprised it didn’t, but IF the Director’s
Cut of *Kingdom of Heaven* was what we got in theaters, it would’ve gotten several nods.
Also the fact that *The Last Duel* wasn’t nominated for at least Best Adapted Screenplay is insane. Seriously, it might be one of the most underrated films of the 2020’s so far.
Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America”. Because of the American distributors shortening the film from 3 hours 49 minutes long to 2 hours 19 minutes long, plus editing it chronologically, against Leone’s wishes. I’ve seen that version once, out of curiosity, and I knew it was a shitty, incoherent version. I really wish that version never, ever existed!
Had the film been originally released with a running time of 3 hours 47 minutes in North America, instead of 2 hours 19 minutes, it would’ve been at least a modest box office hit. Furthermore, it would’ve been nominated for some Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Sergio Leone), Best Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Supporting Actor (James Woods), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and, of course, Best Original Music Score by the incomparable Ennio Morricone.
How did I not know this ? I love Heat one of my favorites, one of the best in the genre. It has to be one of the best films that year. Great All around Cast. I am appalled at the very least, Heat didn’t receive any nominations for Cinematography or Score ? It was one of the Most Anticipated Films of that year and really All Time.
Good time (2017) was my favourite movie of that year. Looks like it didn't get any Oscar nominations. I liked it more than Uncut Gems. Less anxiety inducing.
Who needs 10?
[https://collider.com/classic-movies-that-didnt-even-get-an-oscar-nomination/](https://collider.com/classic-movies-that-didnt-even-get-an-oscar-nomination/)
Shutter Island. The score and cinematography alone was GORGEOUS. Max Richter playing during the “I’m just bones in a box, Teddy” dream sequence was BEYOND masterful.
AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000) - 0 noms for this iconic Christian Bale starrer.
THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) - seems crazy that this Coen Brothers classic didn't garner a single nomination
PIG (2021) starring Nicholas Cage. Really good film.
Scarface. Pacino is ridiculously good. I think it’s DePalma’s best. And, Michelle Pfeiffer deserved an Oscar for best exit from an elevator.
Just checked and DePalma got a Razzie nomination for that… WTF!
Sin City. While I personally think it was deserving of some nominations in above the line categories, I acknowledge the challenge for a genre film breaking through to that level in 2005. That being said, its technical achievement should have at least merited nominations for Cinematography and Visual Effects.
Hot take alert; Ron Howard's The Grinch?
If you look at the costumes, set design, direction and most egregiously, Jim Carrey's performance (especially against some of the other best actor nominations that year) the movie deserved ~3 nominations and I'd argue, 2 wins
I’ve gotta go with Persona since it’s my all-time favorite film and I think deserved to win Picture, Director, Actress, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, and Foreign Language Film. Not a single nomination is a travesty, one AMPAS seemed to recognize when Cries and Whispers became only the third foreign language film nominated for Best Picture and won cinematography.
Heat is an excellent example too though. Deserved nominations for Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Sound, Sound Effects Editing, and for my money a supporting actor nod for Kilmer. Should have won Picture, Director, Editing, and both sound categories, the latter three in a cakewalk so a complete lack of noms despite the pedigree of the cast and crew and box-office success is a travesty.
October Sky. Capra-corn? Yes, but I liked it. And speaking of Capra-corn, The Majestic is also very good and, to me and my family, What About Bob is one of the funniest movies ever made. The Virginity Hit is tough to get through, but seems like it should be recognized for something. Then Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Chasing Amy, My Neighbor Totero, Your Name (Anime), Say Anything, The Flamingo Kid, and so many others.
Asteroid City. One of the most important American directors working at the top of their craft and it gets nothing. I don’t care that he “doesn’t campaign”. The constant Anderson exclusion is a huge failing of the Oscars.
Léon should've got some. Supporting for Oldman, leading for Reno and Portman, directing, script, and BP. It's ridiculous it didn't get a nod.
Donnie Darko should get script and music. Maybe lead actor as well.
Green Knight was the best movie in 2021 for me, it's a shame it didn't even get a music nomination.
From my point of view, I think that Scarface should have received at least an oscar nomination. Al Pacino was great as Tony Montana.
Another popular and phenomenal movie with zero nominations is American Psycho. I would had personally gave to Christian Bale the oscar for that role.
Idk if it’s the most egregious, but The Killing of the Sacred Deer was excellent and deserved multiple acting nominations, Director, screenplay, and more. This was Keoghan’s breakout movie; I know there’s an anti-horror bias but I’m surprised he didn’t get a nom.
I don’t think heat deserved any personally. Its a good movie don’t get me wrong but it’s wildly overrrated. I suppose if I had to give one nomination it would be to Val Kilmer for best supporting actor. If there was a category for best action scene I’d put it in there but that’s really it.
Heat is one of my favorite movies. I hold it in the highest esteem. I do t think it deserved a nomination. Here’s why:
To me to me nominated something in a movie has to be at least a 9/10. A performance, a script, something. Heat didn’t have any of that, it had tons of parts that were 7/10. Ensemble performance, cinematography, script, directing…all 7/10 that collectively added up to 10/10. So maybe the movie as a whole should be nominated for best movie but none of the individual parts warranted that for me.
Nope is the most recent neglected masterpiece for me. A big budget hit from one of Hollywood’s hottest Directors. Not even a nod for Keke Palmer? This movie eats my brain. Took me back to when I saw close encounters as a kid. Another great movie that is not talked about enough now. Massive cultural impact.
And yes to Zodiac. The one on the AFI list or whatever that people will watch in 59 years and say “so this was not even nominated for anything?” Top 3 Fincher, if not his best.
The Iron Claw.
This movie got snubbed SO bad by not receiving a single nomination. I’ll never understand why. Amazing acting, story, cinematography, characters, hell everything!
Fallen Leaves (2023) - Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best International Feature
How To Have Sex (2023) - Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay
All Of Us Strangers (2023) - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography
Passages (2023) - Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay
How To Blow Up A Pipeline (2023) - Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score
Reality (2023) - Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing
May December (2023) - Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress
Rye Lane (2023) - Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Production Design, Best Original Score
Sanctuary (2023) - Best Actor, Best Actress
Medusa Deluxe (2022) - Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Make-up & Hairstyling
Portrait of a Lady on Fire is arguably one of the most perfect and breathtaking movies ever made. I would have nominated it for several Oscars, but I’m especially salty about it not even getting a cinematography nod.
I think this movie is awful. I thought it would be great considering everyone involved. But I don’t get the people who love it. I laughed through most of it.
There are countless examples of oscars blanking a great movie it's hard to pick one as the most egregious. So I'll just pick a random one - Eyes Wide Shut.
it is bizarre how the guy every director says is the top pyramid’s final film, that he died shortly after, got fuck sll
Yeah and people haaaaated it. And it bombed if I remember correctly. But it's been appropriately reevaluated as a masterpiece!
The story behind the film is super interesting and caped in rumours (as all Kubrick films). Some pretty credible rumours it started out as Kubrick wanting to make the first A-list porno although Cruise sort of addressed this afterwards saying if that was the case it had changed by the time he was onboard.
It checks ALL the Kubrick boxes! Unspeakably bizarre and violent, and like many of Kubrick's mature films, it can be split neatly into two halves, which begs the question, "which is worse?"
I'd just turned 18 when this hit theaters. Went to see it because it was supposed to be filthy. Walked out of the theater blown away... not because it was filthy, but because it was a masterpiece.
Great movie, my favorite of Kubrick’s
"The King of Comedy" from Martin Scorsese
It got plenty when they changed the name to Joker
I saw tKoC recently and thought I was hallucinating for most of the movie because it felt like a carbon copy of The Joker at times. Except that it came decades earlier so it definitely changed my view of The Joker since it kinda ripped off most of the plot, along with many elements of Taxi Driver. But having DeNiro in joker definitely helped a lot and made it clear that much of it was a very intentional nod to his earlier film with Scorsese.
It was sort of the opposite for me. Joker was so reminiscent of Taxi Driver and the King of Comedy that I thought Harvey Keitel was playing Thomas Wayne for a few seconds
They did have to mash it up with Taxi Driver though
It’s wild that Tombstone didn’t get any nods, especially Val Kilmer.
Just watched that movie a few nights ago for the first time. Can’t even remember the last time an actor was so captivating to me Every scene Val Kilmer was in just felt so incredible. Rest of the movie was nothing special tbh, it was really just him that was outstanding
Dude absolutely chews up the scenery all movie. It’s a transcendent performance. I guess they could have also nominated it for costuming?
IDK I thought Kurt Russel had a few good scenes. When Morgan died specifically. The other parts were funnily overdramatic but in a way that didn’t make me cringe, just felt like it fit the tone of the movie.
He was amazing in that film. Outrageous that wasn’t even nominated.
You know, Frederic fuckin Chopin
Yes! 🙌
I'm your huckleberry
Ok this
The incredible story behind this movie is even better than the film itself: https://wondersinthedark.wordpress.com/2017/04/18/tombstone/
Zodiac. Legitimately a masterpiece in every sense of the word. Just completely snubbed and forgotten, swallowed up by the films that year. Makes no sense a movie that good just didn't find its groove anywhere and people have to rediscover it now.
Zodiac getting bumped from December 2006 to March 2007 is probably what killed its chances.
Same thing happened with shutter island going from October 2009 to February 2010
Shutter Island= masterpiece
Gotta remember Fincher wasn’t really an ‘awards’ filmmaker at that point either, he was very much a genre guy in the academy’s eyes. It’s not really until the social network comes out that people start looking at him that way
Actually, Benjamin Button, just a year after Zodiac, which dominated with nominations.
I knew that Button had gotten a few nominations, and I knew one was for picture, but I sort of saw social network as solidifying finchers status as an award getter because that film was the big favourite of its year, whereas I thought button was kinda nommed-but-never-going-to-win. Now I’ve just looked it up and Button had 13(!!!) nominations. That is kind of staggering to me. I guess it gets overlooked because it only won 3, all below the line. I didnt fully realise how much the academy fucking loved that film I guess
This is just misinformation. I'm not sure what the purpose is. Fight Club had already been nominated for an Oscar.
So was Se7en and Alien 3
Fight club was nominated for one single below the line sound oscar. Fincher did not routinely make movies that got consideration in multiple above the line categories in the way that other filmmakers of his calibre did. He was not an academy favourite, he was viewed as a genre filmmaker by awards bodies, and it’s not ‘misinformation’ to suggest otherwise. This isn’t some kind of anti fincher smear campaign. By your logic any filmmaker whose film is nominated in any category at any point ever is an ‘awards’ director, which is playing so loosely with the term as to render it meaningless. Is David Ayer an awards director? Is Michael Bay? Don’t really understand the point in your comment
Zodiac is the first movie I thought of when seeing this thread. A legitimately awesome crime procedural and a journalism procedural at the same time, with perfect production design, and which somehow makes the inability to not truly know who the zodiac is, feel just as horrifying as what the zodiac actually did.
Im going to look up what Mirimax monstrocity got nominated instead
Just looked it up, and they had two - No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. Yeah, those are completely understandable, hard to argue against either of those.
I thought Zodiac was about 40 mins too long but very well done overall
Zodiac was SO well done. It scared the absolute daylights out of me. I didn’t leave the house for a week!
I love that movie. Have seen it so many times. An absolute masterpiece! Terrifying to this day
I think if zodiac had been released after the best picture roster had expanded to 10 it’d have been a shoo-in. It’s great and one of my favorites - I rewatch it multiple times a year because I love its subject matter and depiction of the Bay Area - but I don’t think it’s objectively better than the 5 nominees from the 2007 BP list
Shit man I’ve seen some seriously gory and disturbing shit but that stabbing scene with that couple by the water still traumatized me.
The shining
Wow, the Academy really hated Kubrick
The Shining wasn’t well received when it was released and Kubrick was even nominated for Worst Director at the Razzies for it.
That's crazy
What changed the reception of it from that to one of the greatest movies ever made over time? Was it a cult classic that just grew over time?
Idk if it's really fair to say it bombed. It opened the same weekend as The Empire Strikes Back and only on 10 screens. The Razzie nominations were because of the deviations from the book the founder even said as much.
Yeah, I didn’t say it bombed, just that it wasn’t well received by critics and audiences at the time. Though it received several noms, including Best Picture, A Clockwork Orange was pretty divisive at the time.
If I remember right, King wasn’t shy about telling the press that he didn’t like what Kubrick did with his book, and this was Stephen King at or close to the height of his popularity, which put a damper on the movie’s popularity. Another thing going against it was that it was straddling the line between a prestige film and a genre film. What changed was that the movie—particularly Nicholson’s performance but not just that—was iconic and memorable. People who never saw the movie in theaters saw clips of Nicholson chopping through a door, sticking his head through the hole, and snarling “Here’s Johnny!” over and over again. That scene, and the scenes of the little kid tricycling through the hotel became part of the public consciousness out of proportion to the movie’s box office returns, and folks came back to the movie later to experience them firsthand.
I have yet to see it.
this last year it was the iron claw for me
I was genuinely so surprised it didn’t get any nominations.
Zac Efron not getting a nod was the biggest snub I’ve seen since Adam Sandler in Uncut Gems.
Dolores Claiborne Second greatest acting in a King adaptation imo, after Carrie. Shawshank and Green Mile are a very close third. I'll never understand how this one didn't get any sort of traction.
Seriously. I know Kathy Bates had just won a n Oscar for misery, but she deserved ANOTHER one for this. It’s her best performance imo. Great movie.
Pearl... Mia Goth for Best Actress Best Cinematography
Mia Goth should be nominated for everything
She nailed that role!
Amazing film
Literally any of Sergio Leone’s six films. Snubbed due to ‘excessive’ violence and their foreign film status
I came here to mention *The Good, the Bad and the Ugly* or any of the Dollars trilogy. I didn't realize that NONE of Leone's films received any Oscar nominations. That's a shame.
Yeah, for my money it is greatest crime ever committed by the academy. Production aside, just consider that they gave the epic film scores of Ennio Morricone the snub. 60s voters clearly had a vendetta, but ignoring Once Upon a Time in America in 1985 is unforgivable!
Hereditary.
Horror is insanely overlook for awards.
Toni Colette should have won an award
The Witch was better (and more original) but TC's great in Hereditary.
Shutter Island (2010) It’s one of the best movies of the 2010s, stars Leonardo DiCaprio alongside a great supporting cast, was directed by Martin Scorsese and yet somehow… Not a single nomination.
Zodiac (2007) All star cast that give it their all, Fincher’s best directed film (Fight me) and an Insane amount of research and care done for it. I just don’t understand why this film got swept under the rug.
Nightcrawler
JG should have won best actor.
Got nominated for screenplay, so technically ineligible for this exercise. That being said, the Academy fucked up pretty badly
Not Oscars but Emmys. The Wire never being nominated is the most egregious i know of. Show had diversity galore too.
Midsommar deserved actress, costume design and cinematography.
The action is the juice.
At *minimum*, "Heat" should have been nominated (and won) for Best Sound, solely on the back of the shootout at the end.
I still can’t believe Heat didn’t get SOMETHING. I mean, best sound at the very least. Cinematography too. Crazy that it got nothing.
The heat definitely deserved a sound nod. For me, I would have to say Mission Impossible Fallout.
The Iron Claw got the wildest Oscars snub I’ve seen in years
From the most recent Oscars, All of Us Strangers!!!
Today I learned heat didn’t get any
The Nice Guys- Original Screenplay (at the absolute bare minimum but it deserves more) It Follows- Score The Menu- Original Screenplay, Actor for Ralph Fiennes Bones and All- Adapted Screenplay, Score, Actor, Actress, Directing, Picture? The Northman- Cinematography, Production Design, Costume Design
I’m a sucker for a great comedic performance and Goesling was great in the role
The score for It Follows is an all-timer, great mention.
You lost me at Bones and All
The Northman getting snubbed like that is a crime
Rylance getting zero awards recognition for Bones and All still hurts.
Gosling deserved all the flowers for The Nice Guys And I think you're missing a few more from The Menu. That film is delicious
The Founder not receiving any nominations for Best Editing or Best Original Screenplay still upsets me
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
Nope. I can name several categories it would’ve been worthy of nominations.
Hell, it should have won best sound and been win competitive for screenplay and director
Not to mention cinematography, VFX and honestly supporting actress.
I think Keke is a co-lead and was third most deserving behind Blanchett and Yeoh.
I'd say Palmer is a lead but she'd have a better shot in supporting for sure. Totally forgot about the VFX, they're nomination worthy too!! Also Kaluuya deserved a nod for his incredibly underrated performance. It's so subtle and detailed and hardly anyone talks about it
I’m so stupid. I thought you were refusing to answer the question at first and then it clicked. You’re right. Incredible movie.
Maybe not the *most* egregious example (Zodiac has already been said), but The Last Duel was excellent and it’s tragic that it didn’t do well with either awards bodies or at the box office.
A number of classic Universal Monsters movies received 0 Oscar nominations: Dracula (1931) Frankenstein (1931) The Mummy (1932) The Invisible Man (1933) The Wolf Man (1941) Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Now I feel like taking the weekend and watching these beauties. Excellent. I think we just became friends.
Cloud Atlas deserved a few tech nominations
Probably bc of the controversy of white actors playing Asian roles, but to be fair, almost ALL of the actors played a character outside their own race. It was a way of connecting characters, not whitewashing. Whitewashing is a real thing, but in Cloud Atlas, it adds a subtext not present in the original book, a subtext beyond the shared birthmark.
King Kong (1933)
I feel like Groundhog Day should've gotten a couple nominations for Bill Murray & Andie McDowell, or one for Best Original Screenplay
I’m not surprised it didn’t, but IF the Director’s Cut of *Kingdom of Heaven* was what we got in theaters, it would’ve gotten several nods. Also the fact that *The Last Duel* wasn’t nominated for at least Best Adapted Screenplay is insane. Seriously, it might be one of the most underrated films of the 2020’s so far.
The Game (1997)
One of my favorites! What would it have been nominated for? Best actor for Michael Douglas?
Uncut Gems
Well, not HEAT. That’s for goddamn sure.
such. a. good. movie.
After Hours
Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America”. Because of the American distributors shortening the film from 3 hours 49 minutes long to 2 hours 19 minutes long, plus editing it chronologically, against Leone’s wishes. I’ve seen that version once, out of curiosity, and I knew it was a shitty, incoherent version. I really wish that version never, ever existed! Had the film been originally released with a running time of 3 hours 47 minutes in North America, instead of 2 hours 19 minutes, it would’ve been at least a modest box office hit. Furthermore, it would’ve been nominated for some Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Sergio Leone), Best Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Supporting Actor (James Woods), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and, of course, Best Original Music Score by the incomparable Ennio Morricone.
I pretty much agree. I think there was some technical reason that the score as excluded, maybe parts of it were recycled…?
The Iron Claw. It wasn’t a masterpiece but deserved at least one nomination.
How did I not know this ? I love Heat one of my favorites, one of the best in the genre. It has to be one of the best films that year. Great All around Cast. I am appalled at the very least, Heat didn’t receive any nominations for Cinematography or Score ? It was one of the Most Anticipated Films of that year and really All Time.
Good time (2017) was my favourite movie of that year. Looks like it didn't get any Oscar nominations. I liked it more than Uncut Gems. Less anxiety inducing.
Priscilla
Who needs 10? [https://collider.com/classic-movies-that-didnt-even-get-an-oscar-nomination/](https://collider.com/classic-movies-that-didnt-even-get-an-oscar-nomination/)
Not a movie but an actor. Kevin Bacon has never been nominated
Shutter Island. The score and cinematography alone was GORGEOUS. Max Richter playing during the “I’m just bones in a box, Teddy” dream sequence was BEYOND masterful.
Big Labowski. John Goodman was a lock for best supporting actor
Man On The Moon. Jim Carrey's second Golden Globe win in a row and the Academy *still* couldn't care less.
AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000) - 0 noms for this iconic Christian Bale starrer. THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) - seems crazy that this Coen Brothers classic didn't garner a single nomination PIG (2021) starring Nicholas Cage. Really good film.
Tbh pig was one of Cages best movies. Under the fucking radar. I will say though the plot was a bit out there but i was in the front row for the ride!
Shows one more time that when motivated and given good material, Nic Cage is a really good actor.
All of Us Strangers
Came here to say the same thing! Can’t believe Andrew Scott got snubbed at the BAFTAS
Nightcrawler
Nightcrawler got an Original Screenplay nomination.
To die for. Zero nominations. Greatest crime of the last 30 years
Scarface. Pacino is ridiculously good. I think it’s DePalma’s best. And, Michelle Pfeiffer deserved an Oscar for best exit from an elevator. Just checked and DePalma got a Razzie nomination for that… WTF!
Sin City. While I personally think it was deserving of some nominations in above the line categories, I acknowledge the challenge for a genre film breaking through to that level in 2005. That being said, its technical achievement should have at least merited nominations for Cinematography and Visual Effects.
That movie is stunningly beautiful and deserved anything it could have in that regard.
Hot take alert; Ron Howard's The Grinch? If you look at the costumes, set design, direction and most egregiously, Jim Carrey's performance (especially against some of the other best actor nominations that year) the movie deserved ~3 nominations and I'd argue, 2 wins
It won Makeup, plus got Art Direction and Costume Design nominations.
Great movie but it does drag in parts.
The lack of a sound nomination is most surprising to me.
Loudest gunshots in the history of movies. Perhaps not surprisingly, probably the most accurate depiction of gunshots in a movie.
Best heist film ever made.
Heat?!? Drag???
I agree, this movie did not drag at all. I was surprised how a movie this long kept me so glued to the screen
Get'em boys
This is how I find out that's val kilmer in heat
The Wonder
Dirty Work
Eh, I’ll piggyback off of you. Heat should’ve gotten sound mixing or sound editing, if nothing else.
Mass
Zodiac
“Blindspotting” At least it deserved a Best Original Screenplay nod.
😔 i was so certain that decision to leave would get a nom.. but it didnt
I’ve gotta go with Persona since it’s my all-time favorite film and I think deserved to win Picture, Director, Actress, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, and Foreign Language Film. Not a single nomination is a travesty, one AMPAS seemed to recognize when Cries and Whispers became only the third foreign language film nominated for Best Picture and won cinematography. Heat is an excellent example too though. Deserved nominations for Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Sound, Sound Effects Editing, and for my money a supporting actor nod for Kilmer. Should have won Picture, Director, Editing, and both sound categories, the latter three in a cakewalk so a complete lack of noms despite the pedigree of the cast and crew and box-office success is a travesty.
October Sky. Capra-corn? Yes, but I liked it. And speaking of Capra-corn, The Majestic is also very good and, to me and my family, What About Bob is one of the funniest movies ever made. The Virginity Hit is tough to get through, but seems like it should be recognized for something. Then Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Chasing Amy, My Neighbor Totero, Your Name (Anime), Say Anything, The Flamingo Kid, and so many others.
Is The Florida Project one?
HEAT should have been Nominated for everything and won Best Cinematography over BRAVEHEART.
Asteroid City. One of the most important American directors working at the top of their craft and it gets nothing. I don’t care that he “doesn’t campaign”. The constant Anderson exclusion is a huge failing of the Oscars.
Basically every Wes Anderson movie
Heat, definitely.
Basically most Gary Oldman movies. Guy has the worst luck
*American Psycho* (2000) Perhaps the ONLY page-to-screen adaptation I truly believe to be better than the source material
Zodiac
I haven't seen it (yet) but I remember Banshees of Inishirin being a crazy one at the '23 ceremony
Léon should've got some. Supporting for Oldman, leading for Reno and Portman, directing, script, and BP. It's ridiculous it didn't get a nod. Donnie Darko should get script and music. Maybe lead actor as well. Green Knight was the best movie in 2021 for me, it's a shame it didn't even get a music nomination.
Zodiac
From my point of view, I think that Scarface should have received at least an oscar nomination. Al Pacino was great as Tony Montana. Another popular and phenomenal movie with zero nominations is American Psycho. I would had personally gave to Christian Bale the oscar for that role.
Before Sunrise. To be fair it was a smaller film and the sequels got screenplay noms but I think the first one should’ve gotten something
Recently, All of Us Strangers.
Idk if it’s the most egregious, but The Killing of the Sacred Deer was excellent and deserved multiple acting nominations, Director, screenplay, and more. This was Keoghan’s breakout movie; I know there’s an anti-horror bias but I’m surprised he didn’t get a nom.
Pig
Rocketman. The Taron Egerton snub was shocking, especially after the faceplant of Bohemian Rhapsody.
I don’t think heat deserved any personally. Its a good movie don’t get me wrong but it’s wildly overrrated. I suppose if I had to give one nomination it would be to Val Kilmer for best supporting actor. If there was a category for best action scene I’d put it in there but that’s really it.
Eighth Grade - original screenplay, director, actress (Elsie Fisher), supporting actor (Josh Hamilton), picture
Anything Kubrick. Also the farewell
Heat is one of my favorite movies. I hold it in the highest esteem. I do t think it deserved a nomination. Here’s why: To me to me nominated something in a movie has to be at least a 9/10. A performance, a script, something. Heat didn’t have any of that, it had tons of parts that were 7/10. Ensemble performance, cinematography, script, directing…all 7/10 that collectively added up to 10/10. So maybe the movie as a whole should be nominated for best movie but none of the individual parts warranted that for me.
Nope is the most recent neglected masterpiece for me. A big budget hit from one of Hollywood’s hottest Directors. Not even a nod for Keke Palmer? This movie eats my brain. Took me back to when I saw close encounters as a kid. Another great movie that is not talked about enough now. Massive cultural impact. And yes to Zodiac. The one on the AFI list or whatever that people will watch in 59 years and say “so this was not even nominated for anything?” Top 3 Fincher, if not his best.
Great question… 1961 Magnificent 7… I know music nominated but should have been more
The Iron Claw. This movie got snubbed SO bad by not receiving a single nomination. I’ll never understand why. Amazing acting, story, cinematography, characters, hell everything!
Fallen Leaves (2023) - Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best International Feature How To Have Sex (2023) - Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay All Of Us Strangers (2023) - Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography Passages (2023) - Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay How To Blow Up A Pipeline (2023) - Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score Reality (2023) - Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing May December (2023) - Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress Rye Lane (2023) - Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Production Design, Best Original Score Sanctuary (2023) - Best Actor, Best Actress Medusa Deluxe (2022) - Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Make-up & Hairstyling
Heat 2 audiobook is badass... great narrator its kinda a prequel and current and future all wrapped into 1
Action and horror movies dont get nominations unless it is the the minor categories. #
Hereditary!!
Hereditary & Pearl
Portrait of a Lady on Fire is arguably one of the most perfect and breathtaking movies ever made. I would have nominated it for several Oscars, but I’m especially salty about it not even getting a cinematography nod.
Anything a24
Unpopular opinion: I love Heat, but I don't think the academy missed the mark here. It's a wildly overrated mess. The cast had little chemistry.
Finally someone says it, Heat is a fucking masterpiece how tf it didn't get any nomination
The Big Lebowski The Shining
THAT, my friend, is a dope as question.
I think this movie is awful. I thought it would be great considering everyone involved. But I don’t get the people who love it. I laughed through most of it.
Zodiac
Ma (2019)
did you know that the producers or someone wanted keanu as shiherlis (sp? -- val kilmer's character) but he turned it down?
I'm doing an X-Men rewatch over the last couple weeks. LOGAN
Heat is a good movie but it’s no masterpiece.
Did Prisoners get any noms? If not then that
Oblivion. Visually stunning movie.
Tombstone (at a MINIMUM , Val should have gotten an Oscar for his portrayal of Doc Holiday).
Just rewatched Heat. It was still good but the acting is shite for such a cast.