biggest snubs in oscar history
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Biggest Oscar Snubs Of All Time: 'Selma' And 9 Other Academy Award Snub Shockers Over The Years Biggest Oscar Snubs Of All Time: 'Selma' And 9 Other Academy Award Snub Shockers Over The Years. David Oyelowo, snubbed for his performance in Selma, joins a long list of ignored performances in Oscar history. No sooner had the Oscar nominations been announced than fans and critics alike voiced their gripes about who had been snubbed by the Academy. Every year some of the biggest names in movies inevitably are left off the final list of nominees, but some actors and filmmakers are more wrongly overlooked than others -- at least in the view of their fans.
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Oscars 2016: Complete coverage of the 88th Academy Awards; Spotlight wins best picture; Chris Rockâs monologue; complete list of winners From Chris Rock's skewering jokes to a big win for Spotlight, here are the highlights from the 2016 Oscars. (Nicki DeMarco/The Washington Post) The biggest award of Oscars evening went to “Spotlight,” which pulled out a win for best picture in a very split year.
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10 Oscar Speeches That Were 10 Words or Fewer 10 Oscar Speeches That Were Under 11 Words. When Greer Garson won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1943 for Mrs. Miniver, she set a Guinness World Record for Longest Oscars Acceptance Speech with a rant that clocked in at five and a half minutes.
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Whoops! Chiwetel Ejiofor & 3 Other Names Neil Patrick Harris Messed Up at the Oscars At least none of these name flubs were as eyebrow-raising as last year’s John Travolta Adele Dazeem slip. He returned to the Academy Awards stage to poke fun at his Idina Menzel fail, only to create one of the most awkward Oscar moments ever.
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- Like us on Facebook. When Greer Garson won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1943 for Mrs. Miniver, she set a Guinness World Record for Longest Oscars Acceptance Speech with a rant that clocked in at five and a half minutes.
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Awkward! Twitter erupts after Billy Bob Thornton squeezes past stony-faced ex Laura Dern at Golden Globes 18 years after he dumped her for Angelina Jolie He famously dumped her to shack up with Angelina Jolie. And it seems all is not forgiven going by Laura Dern's expression as ex Billy Bob Thornton squeezed past her to accept his award at the Golden Globes in Beverly Hills on Sunday.
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- Gigi, the 1958 musical that was named Best Picture the year before Ben-Hur, won nine Academy Awards in nine nominations. Ben-Hur won 11 Oscars.
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- Leonardo DiCaprio suffered an all-too predictable Oscar heartbreak again last night, missing out on a Best Actor prize to Matthew McConaughey. Despite rave reviews for his turn in Martin Scorsese’s 'Wolf of Wall Street', he’s been snubbed once again.
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Jack Nicholson 'retires from acting due to memory loss' As well as best actor Oscars for 1975's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1998's As Good As It Gets and the best supporting actor prize for 1984's Terms of Endearment, Nicholson holds the record for the highest number of Oscar nominations for a male actor: 12.
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OTRC: Barbra Streisand tied with Katharine Hepburn for Oscar win - Oscar History (Video) At the 41st Oscars in April 1969, Oscar history was made when Barbra Streisand and Katharine Hepburn tied in the Best Actress category, the first time a tie had been declared in any female acting category and the second instance of a tie in all of Oscar history. The audience gasped and Bergman then revealed the two winners.
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Oscar Nom Anomaly: Keaton & Carell Trade Laughs For Gravitas And not just in terms of noms, but wins. After earning a 1988 best actor nom for playing a child-trapped-in-an-adult’s body in Big, Tom Hanks received back-to-back love for his turn as a dying AIDS patient in 1993’s Philadelphia and a dim-witted epic soul in 1994’s Forrest Gump.
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MoviesOnline Frankly its insulting it did not win more nominations then it did. Rosemary’s Baby should have been one of the biggest Oscar Winning horror movies of all time. Why it was overlooked for more Oscar nods I will never know I am not a 62 year old white male… but I am under 50!
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Biggest Oscar Snubs Of All Time: 'Selma' And 9 Other Academy Award Snub Shockers Over The Years David Oyelowo, snubbed for his performance in Selma, joins a long list of ignored performances in Oscar history. Photo: Reuters No sooner had the Oscar nominations been announced than fans and critics alike voiced their gripes about who had been snubbed by the Academy.
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'That was embarrassing!' Jennifer Lawrence trips and falls as she climbs the steps to accept her Best Actress Oscar 'That was embarrassing!' Jennifer Lawrence trips and falls as she climbs the steps to accept her Best Actress Oscar. Winning an Oscar for Best Actress is beyond doubt the biggest moment of any star's career. But Jennifer Lawrence distracted somewhat from the honour by tripping up the stairs as she headed onto the stage to accept her Academy Award.
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Meryl Streep Is the Most Oscar-Nominated Actress Ever, Jennifer Lawrence Becomes Youngest Three-Time Nominee Jennifer Lawrence who was just nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in American Hustle, is the youngest three-time nominee ever at age 23. She won a 2013 Academy Award for role in Silver Linings Playbook, but was first nominated at 20 for her role in 2011's Winter's Bone.
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The Graduate (1967) Even so, the smash success of The Graduate made Hoffman a hot commodity, earning two more nominations for Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Lenny (1974) before winning the Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).The rest is history, including a nomination for Tootsie (1982) and a second win for Rain Man (1988).ven so, the smash success of The Graduate made Hoffman a hot commodity, earning two more nominations for Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Lenny (1974) before winning the Oscar for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979).
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Meryl Streep Is Queen of the Oscars: See Her Many Looks From 1979 to Now 1989: Between 1979 and 1989, Streep was nominated every year except 1981, 1985, and 1987. She was nominated in 1989 for her role in A Cry in the Dark (A dingo's got my baby!), but lost to The Accused actress Jodie Foster. Meryl Streep and Don Gummer during 61st Annual Academy Awards-Governor's Ball in 1989. Credit: Barry King/WireImage.
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Oscars: 10 awful moments in Academy Awards history Oscars: 10 awful moments in Academy Awards history. James Franco dresses up as Marilyn Monroe while hosting the 2011 Academy Awards with Anne Hathaway. Though meticulously planned, film's most important night of the year rarely goes off without a hitch. When you get too many of Hollywood's biggest names in a room, there's bound to be some mayhem.
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The evolution of the Oscar dress: From Janet Gaynor's off-the-rack skirt to Jennifer Lawrence in Christian Dior, EVERY gown worn by the best actress winners since 1929 revealed 1 Janet Gaynor wore an off-the-rack skirt, top and scarf to accept the first Oscar awarded for best actress in 1929. 2  Cher's transparent Bob Mackie dress in 1988 to collect her Moonstruck best actress award was so bad it was good.
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2015 Golden Globes: Complete Winners List It was a big night for Birdman, Boyhood, and Transparent at the 2015 Golden Globes. The four biggest acting nods for motion pictures went to Michael Keaton (Birdman), Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything), Julianne Moore (Still Alice) and Patricia Arquette (Boyhood).
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Big and Little! Statuesque Nicole Kidman bends down to greet her petite Big Little Lies co-star Reese Witherspoon who saves her from a fall on the Oscars red carpet Statuesque Nicole Kidman bends down to greet her petite Big Little Lies co-star Reese Witherspoon who saves her from a fall on the Oscars red carpet. By Karishma Sarkari for Daily Mail Australia. Published: 09:49 EST, 23 February 2015 | Updated: 13:44 EST, 23 February 2015. 31 View comments.
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Academy Award for Best Director 1 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), Titanic (1997), and Ben-Hur (1959) are the three Best Picture-winning films with the most Oscars wins (11). 2  The closest Best Picture winning runner-up for most Oscar wins was West Side Story (1961) with 10 Oscars (out of 11 nominations).
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Movies: 20 Hollywood legends who never won an Oscar The Fatal Attraction bunny boiler has proved to be a staple rejection on Oscar night. Six nominations between 1983 and 2012 yet no wins suggest the voters have something of a Big Chill towards the acclaimed actress.
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OTRC: Barbra Streisand tied with Katharine Hepburn for Oscar win - Oscar History (Video) Hepburn did not appear at the ceremony but Streisand was on hand to collect her award. Hello gorgeous, Streisand said, clutching the Oscar. There had only been one previous instance of a tie back in 1932 when Fredric March of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Wallace Beery of The Champ tied for Best Actor.
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Meryl Streep Is Queen of the Oscars: See Her Many Looks From 1979 to Now Meryl Streep and Don Gummer during 61st Annual Academy Awards – Governor's Ball in 1989. Barry King/WireImage 1996: After losing the 1991 Oscar to Misery's Kathy Bates, the Postcards From the Edge actress went four years without another nomination — her longest blank stretch to date.
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Black actors and directors who were robbed of awards Samuel L. Jackson missed out on an Oscar for his role in Pulp Fictionvia The Daily Beast. “Fuck ‘em,” Spike Lee said when asked about Selma’s snub at the 2015 Academy Awards. It’s a difficult sentiment to disagree with.