what is it
the stuff that dreams are made of
welcome to watch mojo and today we're
counting down our picks for the top 10
times the oscars got it wrong
i believe i deserve some recognition
from this board
my king stop it stop it i'm funny how i
mean funny like i'm a clown i am usual
for this list we're looking at those
times when the academy overlooked
deserving nominees
and or outright gave the golden statue
to the wrong people
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number 10 boogie nights ripped off the
70th academy awards
from the amazing opening long take to
the final long
shot boogie nights is a brilliant film
from one of the greatest directors of
his generation
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and yet the only recognition the film
got from the academy of motion picture
arts and sciences
were nominations for best supporting
actress supporting actor
and original screenplay as good as it
gets was a really good film
and titanic was an all-around cinematic
achievement but
boogie knights arguably deserve to win
best picture
how was it not even nominated honey
you're okay
sweetheart is something wrong and
where was pt anderson's best director
nomination also
while mark wahlberg was still fairly new
to the acting scene
his performance in this film was pitch
perfect on every level
and more than deserving of at least a
nomination i'm ready to shoot the scene
i want to shoot the scene
i'm fine number 9 best picture to the
king's speech
the 83rd academy awards the national
society of film critics
los angeles film critics new york film
critic circle
national board of review and golden
globes are just some of the
organizations that picked david
fincher's the social network as the best
film of 2010.
mark he's wired in sorry he's wired in
is he yes
how about now you're still wired in
quentin tarantino has even called it the
best film of the decade
saying quote it is number one because
it's the best that's all
it just it crushes all the competition
however according to the academy awards
the social network wasn't even the best
film of the year 2010.
i believe i deserve some recognition
from this board
i'm sorry yes i don't understand
which part you deserve recognition
that honor went to tom hooper's the king
speech a solid period drama but hardly
the best film of that year
there may be dark days ahead
and try again almost 10 years later
fincher continues to make oscar caliber
movies like mank while hooper made
cats number eight spielberg not
nominated for jaws
the 48th academy awards steven spielberg
is the most financially successful
director of all time
and is often credited with creating the
modern blockbuster with his 1975
film jaws you yell shark
we've got a panic on our hands on the
4th of july the film was even nominated
for best picture at the academy awards
although spielberg was not among the
best director nominees that year
you're gonna need a bigger boat to be
fair 1975 was a pretty great year at the
movies
and the director category was stacked
with some of the best filmmakers of
their generation
including fellini kubrick lumet altman
and
that year's winner milos forman for one
flew over the cuckoo's nest
mr mcmurphy the meeting was adjourned
and the vote was closed
but the vote was ten to eight the chief
he's got his hand up look
however there was probably some old
school thinking among academia members
who couldn't appreciate the talent and
artistic vision behind a blockbuster
movie about a shark
number seven green book wins best
picture the 91st academy awards
the oscars so white hashtag stemmed from
a noticeable lack of diversity at the
2015
and 2016 oscars most notably in the
acting categories
you have a very narrow assessment of me
tony yeah right
i'm good no no you're not good you're
bad
since then the academy has tried or at
least tried to make it
look like they're trying to bring more
diversity in 2019
multiple people of color got acting nods
while best picture nominations went to
black klansmen and black panther
my king stop it stop it on the surface
green book taking home best picture
looked like another step forward
however beneath the surface this device
of film could be considered a step back
christ i'm blacker than you uh excuse me
the new york times wrote that the movie
has
quote very little that can't be
described as crude
obvious and borderline offensive well at
least the academy finally made up for
peter fairley's dumb and dumber snub
wanna hear the most annoying sound in
the world
number six raging bull loses best
picture
the 53rd academy awards martin
scorsese's raging bull is a masterpiece
not only did it garner plenty of praise
in 1980 but it has been deemed by many
including famed film critic roger ebert
as the best film of that entire decade
it's so ingrained in our cinematic
subconscious that many people probably
assume it won awards for best picture
and best director at the oscars but it
didn't i'm telling you now if i hear
anything i swear on my mother i'm gonna
kill somebody
those honors actually went to a good
film from a very good director
robert redford's ordinary people it was
redford's first time behind the camera
and sometimes they're painful
and if you can't feel pain then you're
not going to feel anything else either
and in a crazy coincidence
scorsese would suffered the same fate
exactly ten years later
number five dances with wolves gets the
win the 63rd academy awards
a decade after failing to give raging
bull the top prize
the academy had ample opportunity to
make it up to martin scorsese
the director arguably topped his 1980
masterpiece with 1990s goodfellas
one of the definitive mob movies as far
back as i can remember i always wanted
to be a gangster
goodfellas was nominated for best
picture and scorsese earned a directing
nod
the film was arguably his best since
raging bull and
some critics have even called it
scorsese's finest work what do you mean
funny funny how how am i funny
but again not the academy talk about
deja vu
scorsese and his film lost to an actor
turned first-time director
this time it was kevin costner and
dances with wolves
the longer this condition persists the
less inclined i am to believe that
anyone will
sure that's a good movie but it's no
good fellas don't worry marty your oscar
is only another
16 years away how many of these guys
have been with you long enough to be
disgruntled huh number four
crash over brokeback mountain the 78th
academy awards
when people talk about overrated best
picture winners crash
has become the default answer for many
so you tell me
why are we scared cause we got guns
you could be right one particular
director had this to say about the crime
drama
quote was it the best film of the year i
don't think so
why should anyone care what this one
director had to say
well maybe because he is paul haggis the
writer and director of said best picture
winner
you embarrass me
you embarrass yourself and he isn't
alone
in 2015 the hollywood reporter asked
hundreds of academy voters to recast
their vote on the 2006 race
and this time in their poll brokeback
mountain came out on top
i wish i knew how to quit you
why don't you
why don't you just let me be huh number
three the wrong thing to do
to do the right thing the 60 second
academy awards
in 1992 john singleton became oscar's
first black best director nominee for
boys in the hood
hey man what's wrong with you he should
have been at least the second
following spike lee for do the right
thing while lee did get in for best
original screenplay
he lost that award and wasn't even
nominated for best director
the film wasn't nominated for best
picture either instead
the oscars laid praise on a much tamer
less important
and more academy-friendly look at race
relations driving miss daisy
what are you doing i'm trying to drive
you to the stove
as lee put it driving miss daisy isn't
quote being taught in film schools all
across the world like do the right thing
is
while lee finally won a screenplay oscar
for black klansmen
star john david washington went
overlooked in best actor
number two citizen kane loses best
picture
the 14th academy awards what is the
greatest movie of all time
the answer to that question will
obviously vary depending on who you ask
but when it comes to critics filmmakers
historians
and writers the answer that you will
hear most often is without a doubt
citizen kane
mr thatcher is one of our most devoted
readers he knows what's wrong with every
copy of the empire since i took
over and one answer you will probably
never hear is how green was my valley
and yet in 1942 at the 14th academy
awards
it was the latter that took home the top
prize what can i do
in fact on another lesser but still
wrong note the maltese falcon
a great movie often cited as the birth
of film noir
was another one of the best picture
nominees that lost to how green was my
valley that year
what is it
the stuff that dreams are made of
before we unveil our top pick here are
some honorable mentions
ava duvernay not nominated for selma the
87th academy awards the film
was nominated for best picture maybe
they thought it directed itself
it it can't wait mr president
no catherine bigelow and best director
for zerodark 30
the 85th academy awards another case of
a movie nominated for best picture and
its female director not nominated
okay fine 95 because i know certainty
freaks you guys out
but it's a hundred tony colette snubbed
the 91st academy awards
collette delivered a career best
performance in hereditary
but no love from the academy don't you
ever raise your voice at me i am your
mother
do you understand akira kurosawa loses
the 58th academy awards
he was amazingly only nominated once for
best director
and he lost
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adam sandler snubbed the 92nd academy
awards
from punch drunk love to uncut gems the
academy refuses to acknowledge sandler
let's see what vegas what is vegas got
you guys that today
take a look let's see are you serious
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number one saving private ryan loses
best picture
the 71st academy awards of all the films
that have won best picture at the
academy awards
a significant percentage of them also
won best director
i think i got a winner what are you
talking about one of the times that
didn't
happen is also the most egregious
mistake that the oscars has ever made
in 1999 the academy deemed steven
spielberg the best director for his film
saving private ryan come up with a
better way to knock the tracks off a
tank
from all ears however in a decision that
shocked hollywood
the best picture oscar went to
shakespeare in love and while
shakespeare in love is a very good film
most people credit its victory less to
artistic merits
and more to the hardcore and
overwhelming marketing push that it got
from the studio
what do we do now
you know go on a victory that as vanity
fair wrote just a few years ago
quote changed the awards forever do you
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