Wally pfister won for Inception, Roger deakins is beyond amazing but i dont think Jarhead was his best work if you compare. But on the same token i also believe that there might be a reason why he hasn’t won one either.
the list is EEEEEENNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDLLLLLLLLEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS
Scorsese for Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas
S Duvall in 3 Women
M Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby
D Sutherland in Don’t Look Now
J Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces
S Bernhard in The King of Comedy
B Murray in Rushmore
H Fonda in Mister Roberts
P Newman in The Hustler
M Clift in A Place in the Sun
T Williams in Hair
welles for citizen kane. the oscars have pretty much been a complete joke ever since
I’d say ignoring Gordon Willis is a pretty obvious disgrace (even his nominations were lacking).
@ Mikel – Well yes, there should be a reason for that. 9 nominations – 0 wins..
@ Jaspar – I haven’t seen some of the films you mentioned, but I have to agree on Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces. I watched it for the first time not so long ago and I still think of that performance.
@ Matt – Thanks. Haven’t searched properly then. Maybe this thread was unnecessary, but I still hope to see some interesting ideas.
@ Santino – Yes, G.Willis might be the next cinematographer to mention. But almost every time he made a good job, there were other strong contenders. I think Manhattan was his best work. Should have got a nomination for it.
Where do you start?
Brad? Start what?
The Academy is notorious for ignoring master filmmakers but I think they’re most egregious and ridiculous omissions have been with Cinematographers and Foreign Films. With foreign films, fine, the rules for submissions are retarded so you can use that as an excuse (although it really is inexcusable). But for DPs – some of the best DPs in cinema have never won or even been nominated. It’s pretty silly that a guy like Gordon Willis, who arguably changed the way cinematography was used, would only be nominated for two films (and those two films are some of the lamest he worked on – Zelig, Godfather III).
Jonas – I agree that Manhattan is amazing looking film and one of Gordy’s best (although I’m more in favor of his work with Coppola and Pakula).
@ Santino – I absolutely agree on what you are saying about DPs. Christopher Doyle is yet to receive the nomination. It’s just strange.
Well, Doyle is a whole other bag. The ASC won’t invite him into the society for fear he might vandalize the clubhouse is a drunken stupor. I’m just assuming the Academy is just following suit.
hahaha
That and that he doesn’t live in the U.S. and rarely works in Hollywood films.
Doyle:
""Anybody who works with me knows what shit they’re in for . . . they know he’s had a beer for breakfast. They know he doesn’t give a shit about certain technical aspects. They know he’s a little bit out of synch, and he’ll probably throw a spanner in the works. Or why would you bother calling me?"
Yeah, it’s absolutely mind-boggling how none of these films were nominated for Best Cinematography, when the majority of them probably should have WON:
“The Night of the Hunter”
“The 400 Blows”
“Hiroshima Mon Amour”
“Last Year at Marienbad”
“The Silence”
“Persona”
“Shame”
“Hour of the Wolf”
“The Conformist”
“The Black Stallion”
“Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters”
“Ratcatcher”
“The Return”
“Australia”
“Hunger”
“Bright Star”
Among so many others. They definitely seem to screw up this category the most of all, although I’d agree the Foreign Language Film category is almost equally mystifying.
Michael Fassbender should have won an oscar for his role in “Hunger”
And while i love American Beauty, but Magnolia is way a more superior film.
Nevertheless, OSCAR is just a grown up version of MTV Movie Awards though.
Simply taking some of the directors who didn’t win Best Director: Mizoguchi, Renoir, Tarkovsky, Satyajit Ray, Welles, Ozu, Rivette, Oliveira, Eisenstein, Dreyer, Hitchcock, Angelopoulos, Rohmer, Ophuls, Bunuel, Naruse, Antonioni, Sternberg, Murnau, Lang, Akerman, Sembene, Ghatak, Erice…. we see the idiocy of this puffed up, back-slapping, razzmatazz, braindead, event that evangelises corporate power, money, imperialism, the canciferous domination of Hollywood and US culture (a malignant growth, a “monstrous carbuncle” spread across the globe) while insulting by neglect the non-Anglophone world. Let the Occupy Wall Street campaign spread to the Academy Awards, let each Oscar recipient turn their back to the audience, drop their trousers or lift their dress to reveal their posterior and let rip a fart in the general direction of the assembled luminaries
Oscars is not an international film festival…. But I agree that enormous numbers of actors directors and whatsoever should have won Oscars, even in the Foreign Language Category…… I think its politics sometimes!!!!
Reputations are pretty malleable. Even in Japan, for example, opinions regarding Mizoguchi, Ozu, Naruse, and Kurosawa have fluctuated pretty widely over the years.
The first one I thought of was Brokeback Mountain losing “Best Picture” to flipping Crash.
What year did Chicago win all its awards? 2002?
I vote for everything that lost out that year due to what was clearly a momentary lapse into madness.
“Chicago” is an excellent picture. Not the best film of its year, but a damn good one and deserving of its awards.
I really couldn’t get along with it. I like Chicago as a show, and I harbour no ill will toward a good screen musical, but it rubbed me rather the wrong way from start to finish.
Perhaps, given a principal cast who didn’t feel so distractingly uncomfortable in their roles, I may have been won over by its occasionally interesting staging choices.. but alas.
Jonas Silgalis
I don’t know if there was a discussion about it before, but I think there’s plenty to discuss on this topic.
I still can’t understand how Roger Deakins wasn’t even nominated for his work in “Jarhead”. It was more than just a beautiful cinematography. The shot of the horse all covered with oil and open plan of the burning refineries are as good as it gets.
Acting:
Billy Bob Thornton. His performance in “The Man Who Wasn’t There” were, in my opinion, the best in his career. And I don’t remember a better performance by any actor in all Coen Brothers films. And he wasn’t even nominated. And with all respect to D.Washington, Thornton deserved the Oscar.
Director:
Martin Scorsese for “Goodfellas”. A classic film and the defining picture of the 90s. The masterful work of Scorsese wasn’t recognized by the academy with seemed to be impressed by the howling wolves.