This may have been asked before, but which Oscar nominees do you think were robbed for best picture?

Saving Private Ryam should have beaten Shakespeare In Love for best picture. Dito Fargo should have beaten The English Patient.

PASSION OF THE CHRIST wasn't even nominated!!!!!!!!!!:mad: :mad:

Back in the 1970's the movies that won best picture were also the movies that were the big hits like The French Connection, The Godfather, Rocky and The Deer Hunter. During the 1980's, 1990's and today the Oscars seem to go to art house pictures.

PASSION OF THE CHRIST wasn't even nominated!!!!!!!!!!:mad: :mad:
I still haven't seen that movie. :eek:

I still haven't seen that movie. :eek:
WTHell?????? what r u waiting for?????? :faint:

I haven't seen it either.


I'll second Saving Private Ryan. I'd also say Munich or Brokeback Mountain from this year.

Fellowship of the Ring should've won over A Beautiful Mind.

PASSION OF THE CHRIST wasn't even nominated!!!!!!!!!!:mad: :mad:

AMEN TO THAT CHOICE!!!!! BIGGEST ROBBERY IN OSCAR HISTORY AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED!!!!!! Three oscar nominations in categories that nobody cares about like cinemotography, makeup, and musical score, was an insult to the actors who literally put their blood and guts into this film. It still makes me mad to this day just thinking about it!! :mad:

Also, as Walk The Line said, Saving Private Ryan losing to Shakespeare In Love was pretty shocking. The Academy must have been drunk off their asses when they made that choice.

I posted this on other threads before, but I'll post it again here as a response to this topic. I think any movie that won for best director but not for best picture automatically qualifies for this category. Below is what I wrote on the evening of this year's Academy Awards.

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I guess if there is any one strong correlation between the Academy Awards that a movie will win, it would be that the film that wins best director is almost a shoe-in for the best picture award as well. In past years, the vast majority of movies that won best director won best picture as well. However, there have been several exceptions as of late, and tonight was yet another exception that there can no longer be a strong correlation between the two awards. Here are the exceptions since 1967:

Year / Best Picture Movie / Best Director Movie (Director)

1967 / In the Heat of the Night / The Graduate (Mike Nichols)

1972 / The Godfather / Cabaret (Bob Fosse)

1981 / Chariots of Fire / Reds (Warren Beatty)

1989 / Driving Miss Daisy / Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)

1998 / Shakespeare in Love / Saving Private Ryan (Steven Spielberg)

2000 / Gladiator / Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)

2002 / Chicago / The Pianist (Roman Polanski)

2005 / Crash / Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee)

Stella--

That is an interesting list....I mean, it would seem to follow logically that the best director would win best picture, but you pointed out the fallacy with that logic.

Then again, I think some people in the Academy may find it somewhat difficult to overly reward Polanski which is a shame because he is a talented film director.

'98 did seem a little off...I actually like Shakespeare in Love more than Saving Private Ryan (odd, as I'm a history teacher), but I think Ryan was the better made movie.

I also agree that Beautiful Mind didn't deserve to win...in my opinion, there wasn't anything new or innovating there!