Thursday’s Top Ten Oscar Upsets!
February 22, 2013 by pbenjay
So who do you think is going to win this year? Unlike some other years, there isn’t just one picture which will run away with all of the top awards. The field is open and the predicting is hitting fever pitch. Is it anybody’s guess? Maybe. I have my own predictions and I’ll post them before Sunday evening. Feel free to write in your own choices for Best Picture, Best Actor and Actress, Best Director, and any other BEST you want to pick.
Sometimes a dark horse emerges and at the last moment, streams past all the other contenders and snatches the top prize. Do you remember these well-known Oscar upsets?
1. 2006 – Crash beats out Broke Back Mountain for Best Picture! WTF? Crash was interesting and full of racial and social tension but when it was announced that it won Best Picture, there were some audible gasps and best of all, do you remember that Jack Nicholson, who announced the winner, raised one of his famous eyebrows in a betcha didn’t see that coming!
2. 1943 – What were they thinking??? Paul Lukas won the Best Actor Award for his role in Watch On The Rhine. And Humphrey Bogart LOST for his role in Casablanca. OMG!!
3. 1999 – Shakespeare in Love was a fine movie, with great costumes but did you expect it to beat out Saving Private Ryan? I mean really? Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Edward Burns????
4. 2002 – Who beat out Nicholas Cage, Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Michael Caine for Best Actor? Adrien Brody! He was relatively unknown compared to the heavy-hitters he was up against. If his win was a surprise, imagine what Halle Berry was thinking when he grabbed her and planted a great big kiss on her mouth and when they tried to stop his acceptance speech, he said NO. Then gave an anti-war speech and received a standing ovation for it.
5. 1994 – Schindler’s List won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing and 5 more Best categories, BUT Ralph Fiennes did NOT win Best Actor. Tommy Lee Jones took the top prize with his role in The Fugitive. Jones was good as a cop but seriously? Fiennes was Oscar-worthy as the odious Nazi, Amon Goth. I can only imagine how awful that night was for him as Schindler’s List racked up win after win.
6. 1991 – It was not a good night for Goodfellows! Dances With Wolves snapped up the Best Picture Award. The other nominees were Godfather Part III, Awakenings and Ghost. And yet another “you lose” for Martin Scorcese.
7. 1942 – Only time will tell and it did…How Green Was My Valley won Best Picture over……are you ready? Citizen Kane! Consistently on the top of greatest movie lists for years, in 1998 AFI declared Citizen Kane to be the number one greatest movie ever! Better late than never??
8.1977 – Should we have been surprised when a feel-good-loser-wins-in-the-end-against-all-odds movie punched its way to Best Picture and in doing so knocked out Taxi Driver and All The President’s Men? YES! OMG, Taxi Driver? DeNiro?
9. 1993- This was the night the wild card entry won! Marisa Tomei played the sassy and saucy Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny. And Vanessa Redgrave and Miranda Richardson went home empty-handed.
10. 2010– No list of Oscar upsets would be complete without mentioning Kathryn Bigelow. She was the first female to win Best Director for The Hurt Locker and truly upset her ex-husband James Cameron who was the favorite to win with Avatar!
Academy Awards night has been full of surprises and upsets many times over and this list is by no means complete. Perhaps I can post another list before the big night!
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Thursday’s Top Ten Oscar Upsets!
February 22, 2013 by pbenjay
So who do you think is going to win this year? Unlike some other years, there isn’t just one picture which will run away with all of the top awards. The field is open and the predicting is hitting fever pitch. Is it anybody’s guess? Maybe. I have my own predictions and I’ll post them before Sunday evening. Feel free to write in your own choices for Best Picture, Best Actor and Actress, Best Director, and any other BEST you want to pick.
Sometimes a dark horse emerges and at the last moment, streams past all the other contenders and snatches the top prize. Do you remember these well-known Oscar upsets?
1. 2006 – Crash beats out Broke Back Mountain for Best Picture! WTF? Crash was interesting and full of racial and social tension but when it was announced that it won Best Picture, there were some audible gasps and best of all, do you remember that Jack Nicholson, who announced the winner, raised one of his famous eyebrows in a betcha didn’t see that coming!
2. 1943 – What were they thinking??? Paul Lukas won the Best Actor Award for his role in Watch On The Rhine. And Humphrey Bogart LOST for his role in Casablanca. OMG!!
3. 1999 – Shakespeare in Love was a fine movie, with great costumes but did you expect it to beat out Saving Private Ryan? I mean really? Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Edward Burns????
4. 2002 – Who beat out Nicholas Cage, Jack Nicholson, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Michael Caine for Best Actor? Adrien Brody! He was relatively unknown compared to the heavy-hitters he was up against. If his win was a surprise, imagine what Halle Berry was thinking when he grabbed her and planted a great big kiss on her mouth and when they tried to stop his acceptance speech, he said NO. Then gave an anti-war speech and received a standing ovation for it.
5. 1994 – Schindler’s List won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing and 5 more Best categories, BUT Ralph Fiennes did NOT win Best Actor. Tommy Lee Jones took the top prize with his role in The Fugitive. Jones was good as a cop but seriously? Fiennes was Oscar-worthy as the odious Nazi, Amon Goth. I can only imagine how awful that night was for him as Schindler’s List racked up win after win.
6. 1991 – It was not a good night for Goodfellows! Dances With Wolves snapped up the Best Picture Award. The other nominees were Godfather Part III, Awakenings and Ghost. And yet another “you lose” for Martin Scorcese.
7. 1942 – Only time will tell and it did…How Green Was My Valley won Best Picture over……are you ready? Citizen Kane! Consistently on the top of greatest movie lists for years, in 1998 AFI declared Citizen Kane to be the number one greatest movie ever! Better late than never??
8.1977 – Should we have been surprised when a feel-good-loser-wins-in-the-end-against-all-odds movie punched its way to Best Picture and in doing so knocked out Taxi Driver and All The President’s Men? YES! OMG, Taxi Driver? DeNiro?
9. 1993- This was the night the wild card entry won! Marisa Tomei played the sassy and saucy Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny. And Vanessa Redgrave and Miranda Richardson went home empty-handed.
10. 2010– No list of Oscar upsets would be complete without mentioning Kathryn Bigelow. She was the first female to win Best Director for The Hurt Locker and truly upset her ex-husband James Cameron who was the favorite to win with Avatar!
Academy Awards night has been full of surprises and upsets many times over and this list is by no means complete. Perhaps I can post another list before the big night!
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