19 Biggest Mistakes in Oscar Winning Awards

The movie awards season is in full swing. Earlier this month, we saw Three Announcements for a Crime come out as a big winner at the Golden Globe and start to emerge as a favorite with the Oscars - an Academy Awards that are known for "skating" when defining their winners. There are cases in which not even the winner himself believed, so absurd that it was.

To illustrate these misconceptions, we have compiled a list of some of the biggest mistakes made by the Academy:

1. Citizen Kane Losing as Best Movie for How Green My Valley Was (1941)

While the first is a masterpiece rated one of the best films ever made, the second is nowhere near the best feature ever directed by John Ford. Orson Welles was regarded as a persona non grata in Hollywood, and losing that award only reinforced that nickname.

2. Shakespeare in Love winning from Saving Private Ryan (1999)

The Academy awarded Spielberg's war drama in every way, including best director. Now try to explain why you were giving the biggest prize of the night for a simple romantic drama that is completely forgettable.

3. Gwyneth Paltrow defeating Cate Blanchett (1999)

Yeah, 1999 was a confusing year for the Oscars. They all took Blanchett's victory for their beautiful performance as Queen Elizabeth in the eponymous movie. But Paltrow eventually won, and her reaction to the speech says a lot about how surprising her victory was, even for the actress herself.

4. Bob Were Defeating Francis Ford Coppola (1973)

May Bob Forgive us, but defeat Coppola and his masterpiece The Godfather is hard to accept. At least the production took the best film, actor and screenplay awards, and Coppola won best director for the sequel three years later.

5. Rocky winning Best Picture Oscar (1977)

We all love Stallone and his Rocky Balboa, but winning in a year that had Taxi Driver and All President 's Men is at least curious.

6. Crash winning from Brokeback Mountain's Secret (2006)

Another case that even the winner didn't believe, so much so that years later director Paul Haggis apologized for taking Ang Lee's best film award, even though it wasn't his fault.

7. The Victory of The King's Speech (2011)

The movie has three magnificent performances, mostly Colin Firth, but that's it, and winning the best movie in a year of Social Network and Black Swan makes no sense.

8. Dance with Wolves and Kevin Costner Defeating Martin Scorsese and his Good Companions (1991)

Just read the title of the topic and think: “which movie do I remember?”; Another point is that the Academy would not reward a movie full of profanity, such as Good Companions .

9. Pulp Fiction Losing For Forrest Gump (1995)

These are two exemplary films that marked the 1990s, but just as in the previous topic, the Academy would not reward a “wrong” movie that flirts with director Quentin Tarantino's gore and dubious tastes.

10. Chicago Winning Best Picture Category (2003)

In a year with two epics, “Gangs of New York” and “Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, ” a not-so-good Rob Marshall musical came out with 6 awards, including best picture.

11. The Faun's Labyrinth Does Not Win Best Foreign Film Award (2007)

The prize was in good hands with the German Life of Others, but it would be much better to reward a fantastic epic like The Faun's Labyrinth .

12. Tommy Lee Jones Defeating Ralph Fiennes as Best Supporting Actor (1994)

Tommy Lee Jones is spectacular in The Runaway, but Ralph Fiennes and his sociopathic commander Amon Goth in Schindler's List is among the best performances in history.

13. Mauro Fiore win in best photograph by Avatar (2010)

A film that is practically 90% CGI gaining better photography is at least curious, especially considering the competitors: Robert Richardson for Inglourious Basterds and Christian Berger for The White Ribbon .

14. The Artist Winning as Best Picture (2011)

The Artist only won because the Academy likes to remember his golden days of early Hollywood, because nothing else justifies the prize but stylized photography.

15. Bill Murray Losing to Sean Penn (2004)

Sean Penn is an acting monster and a bottomless pit of so many emotions in About Boys and Wolves, but it would be far better to reward Bill's subtlety and delicacy in Encounters and Mismatches .

16. Birdman Take Best Movie Award from The Great Hotel Budapest (2015)

Birdman is an extremely difficult film to conceive, mainly because it is virtually all sequential, but its competitor has won in almost every technical category.

17. Michael Keaton Not Winning as Best Actor by Birdman (2015)

If there's one thing to congratulate and value on Birdman, it's Keaton's acting. He practically plays himself as an actor who lives on past glory as a superhero, but we saw him lose to Eddie Redmayne.

18. Alejandro González Iñarritu beat George Miller as Best Director (2016)

Having won a year earlier for Birdman was doubtful, but beating George Miller and his chaos masterpiece Mad Max: The Road of Fury is asking too much. Just look at the making of to understand the injustice the Academy has committed here.

19. Alfred Hitchcock Never Won

The director who revolutionized the thriller and is revered by everyone, including the old guard (Scorsese's Isle of Fear is a Hitchcock movie without Hitchcock), has never won as a director or had a winning movie. In this case, the Academy lost because it gave nothing but an honorary prize to the master.

This text was written by Pedro Henrique via N-experts.