25 Oscar snubs and unjust losses, including Do The Right Thing losing to Driving Miss Daisy, Crash beating Brokeback Mountain, and 2001 losing Best Picture to Oliver! ((Um, what is Hitchcock doing with his hand??))
Advertise here with Carbon Ads
This site is made possible by member support. 💞
Big thanks to Arcustech for hosting the site and offering amazing tech support.
When you buy through links on kottke.org, I may earn an affiliate commission. Thanks for supporting the site!
kottke.org. home of fine hypertext products since 1998.
Beloved by 86.47% of the web.
Comments 3
In 1991, Scorsese’s Goodfellas lost Best Picture to Dances With Wolves.
https://entertainment.time.com/2013/02/20/oscar-robbery-10-controversial-best-picture-races/slide/1991-goodfellas-vs-dances-with-wolves/
I am certainly not the first to observe this, but boy does the Academy love a facile, treacly racial reconciliation story, and boy does it not love anything that would make it interrogate its own whiteness.
It's not just that films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Do The Right Thing lost. Neither was even nominated for Best Picture. Through the lens of history, it's one thing to pick the wrong film, and quite another to ignore important works entirely.
Hello! In order to comment or fave, you need to be a current kottke.org member. If you'd like to sign up for a membership to support the site and join the conversation, you can explore your options here.
Existing members can sign in here. If you're a former member, you can renew your membership.
Note: If you are a member and tried to log in, it didn't work, and now you're stuck in a neverending login loop of death, try disabling any ad blockers or extensions. Or try logging out and then back in. Still having trouble? Email me!
In order to comment or fave, you need to be a current kottke.org member. Check out your options for renewal.
If you feel like this comment goes against the grain of the community guidelines or is otherwise inappropriate, please let me know and I will take a look at it.
This thread is closed for new comments & replies. Thanks to everyone for participating!