After The Wind That Shakes the Barely, Zodiac, and Roberto Benigni got robbed last night, it's time to vent about the Oscars, last night and over the years. The show is laughable enough, but looking back on movies that were ignored is far more embarrassing an exercise.
Here are our picks, besides the obvious snubs like Citizen Kane and The Hottie and the Nottie:
-John Travolta lost the 1995 Best Actor race to Tom Hanks. For Pulp Fiction and Forrest Fucking Gump, (dis)respectfully.
-Crash. The most pretentious piece of garbage ever nominated for an Oscar, this was about as realistic a film as the Amy Fisher sex tape, only with better nudity.
-The hottest bitch of all-time, Bette Davis, in All About Eve. Nope, she didn't win. Somebody named Judy Holliday won for Born Yesterday. Worse, there apparently was a Melanie Griffith remake that gave Holliday even more credibility. Ouch.
-The entire list of winners from 1998: let's have a redo, shall we?
-The list goes on and on: Rocky, the same year as Network; Al Gore For President at the '01 ceremony; any film that didn't get nominated in any category that A Few Good Men or Scent of a Woman were nominated in (that includes Pacino's); and that movie with that loser horse that gets mounted by Tobey Maguire and gets all excited and goes on to win a buttload of crazy races. That movie was fucking ace!
You cats should also check out Slate's rundown of all the crap made by actors after they've taken home Oscars.
