What was the biggest robbery in Oscar history? |
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| 02-16-2008, 02:54 PM | online - #21 | |
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| 02-16-2008, 03:06 PM | away - #22 | |
Dan was a lieutenant | ||
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| 02-16-2008, 03:23 PM | away - #23 | |
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| 02-16-2008, 07:09 PM | away - #24 |
| Scorcese not winning until The Departed is beyond ridiculous. | |
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| 02-16-2008, 07:37 PM | away - #25 | |
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| 02-16-2008, 08:20 PM | online - #26 | |
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| 02-16-2008, 08:32 PM | online - #27 | |
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| 02-16-2008, 11:12 PM | away - #28 | |
but I agree with the person that said the Oscars are just a popularity contest. Rarely do the actual "Best performances" get awarded. Most of the time the people who actually deserve the award will get beat out by whoever the people who vote think will look good holding an Oscar at the moment. | ||
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| 02-16-2008, 11:29 PM | away - #29 |
| Oh and to add to the Oscars lack of credibility... It's fairly racist...Spike Lee nor ne other black director has ever won an Oscar, John Singleton was the first to be nominated in 1992 I don't know if any black director has been nominated since. And only about 9 black actors have won an Oscar out of the 9 only 5 won for lead roles (Sidney Poitier, Denzel, Jamie, Forrest Whitaker and Halle) the only time black actors seem to win is for "supporting" roles. Not that it matters but that's just some !! I felt like sharin just in case yall aint know. | |
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| 02-17-2008, 12:25 AM | online - #30 | |
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| 02-17-2008, 09:10 AM | away - #32 | |
You "racist" cry babies can attack me now for insulting your leader. :rolleyes: | ||
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| 02-17-2008, 12:50 PM | away - #33 | |
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| 02-17-2008, 12:52 PM | away - #34 | |
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| 02-17-2008, 05:32 PM | away - #35 |
| Make an argument [!], its pretty much common sense what im telling you kids. [pic] | |
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| 02-17-2008, 05:46 PM | away - #36 | |
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| 02-17-2008, 07:10 PM | away - #37 | |
All I have to say about Samuel L is that screaming and overreacting your lines doesn't make you a good actor, I bet you don't even know he was in Goodfellas because the cast was too great to even care about him. [pic] | ||
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| 02-17-2008, 08:00 PM | away - #38 | |
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| 02-17-2008, 09:34 PM | online - #39 |
| denzel - malcolm x | |
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| 02-17-2008, 09:49 PM | away - #40 |
| This is funny, my brother and I were havin this same conversation. Martin Landau played Bela Legosi so !!in good in Ed Wood. Im not mad he won. I like acting, when an actor makes transformations into Character. Like Jamie Foxx in Ray, Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin or Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow. I feel Will Smith got robbed for Ali. And Shawshank was very close to Forres Gump. Forrest Gump was just so visually exciting. As a movie, Shawshank was better. Forrest Gump got it cuz of the direction, script, costume design all together makes the film stand out over the rest. But Pulp Fiction was my all-time favorite movie. Crash on the otherhand deserved the Oscar. Esp with the ensemble cast all putting up A+ Performances. The thing I hate is when they give out awards making up for robberies. Like Departed, and Training Day. Other Notable "Robberies" (My opinion): '64-My Fair Lady > Dr. Strangelove '76-Peter Finch in Network > Robert Deniro in Taxi Driver '80-Ordinary People > Raging Bull '85-Out Of Africa > The Color Purple '89-Dances With Wolves > Goodfellas '96-English Patient > Fargo '97-Titanic- The biggest robbery of all time. '00- Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich > Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream '01-Denzel Washington in Training Day > Will Smith in Ali (Really either, or) '02-Chicago > The Two Towers, Gangs of New York, The Painist '03-Renée Zellweger in Cold Mountain > Holly Hunter in Thirteen '05- Reese Witherspoon in Walk the Line > Felicity Huffman in Transamerica '06-Alan Arkin in Little Miss Sunshine > Eddie Murphy in Dreamgirls Some Can Argue: '71-The French Connection > Clockwork Orange '75-One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest > Dog Day Afternoon '76-Rocky > Taxi Driver '77-Annie Hall > Star Wars '89-Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot > Morgan Freeman in Driving Miss Daisy '92-Unforgiven > Malcolm X, A Few Good Men & Scent Of A Woman '92-Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman > Denzel Washington in Malcolm X '94-Forrest Gump > Pulp Fiction & Shawshank Redemption '03-The Return of the King > Lost in Translation & Mystic River '04-Million Dollar Baby > The Aviator & Ray '05-Crash > Over every movie nominated with it. [Munich, Brokeback, Capote, Good Night, Good Luck] '06-The Departed > Letter from Iwo Jima, Babel, the Queen Its very hard for black and gangster themed movies to win. Its not basically a popularity contest or about performance. Its the broader appeal. Well, then I guess it is a popularity contest. Lol... What u guys think? | |
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| Kubrick countless times | | 7 | 26.92% |
| Scorsese countless times (The Departed isn't good enough) | | 9 | 34.62% |
| Hitchcock countless times | | 2 | 7.69% |
| Pacino countless times (Scent of a woman doesn't count) | | 11 | 42.31% |
| DeNiro countless times (He won 2 but deserved 2 more) | | 8 | 30.77% |
| I can't choose between these rediculous hollywood crimes | | 4 | 15.38% |
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