02-11-2008, 04:14 PM | #1 |
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Actors that were robbed of an Oscar
Bill Murray in Lost in translation
Willem Defoe in Boondock Saints Jim Carrey in the Truman show Your thoughts? Rage,rage against the dying of the light. Do not go gently into that good night. |
02-11-2008, 05:58 PM | #2 |
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Jack Nicholson in The Shining. He wasn't even nominated that year. Look at the batch of nominees, none of them even touch his performance.
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02-11-2008, 05:59 PM | #3 |
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Chris Rock
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02-11-2008, 06:18 PM | #4 |
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Tom Cruise for Born on the 4th of July
Granted he was beaten by Daniel Day Lewis, so not really robbed, but I always felt Tom deserves an Oscar, regardless of how nuts he is |
02-11-2008, 06:22 PM | #5 |
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Agree with Nicholson in The Shining
Ellen Burstyn in Requiem For A Dream is possibly the most glaring omission. Dennis Hopper should have been Best Supporting actor for Blue Velvet. You can make a case for Travolta in Pulp Fiction over Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump but yeah, not too bad. |
02-11-2008, 06:35 PM | #6 |
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Jim Carrey in ESOfTheSM
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02-12-2008, 07:25 AM | #7 |
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Daniel Day Lewis could claim oscar worthyness for pretty much all of his roles tbh
Also I think if he weren't so goddamn famous and so unfairly typecast in people's minds all the time, to the point that they think roles he's performed which are utterly different are 'all the same', then Al Pacino in Donnie Brasco |
02-12-2008, 07:38 AM | #8 |
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If you are an actor out on the steet and you have an Oscar visibly within your possession, then you deserved to get robbed.
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02-14-2008, 05:57 PM | #9 |
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there are too many to list who was robbed of an oscar, but Bill Murray in Lost in Translation should have won. THE OSCARS ARE RIGGED I TELL YOU, RIGGED
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02-14-2008, 06:22 PM | #10 |
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LOL Jim Carrey
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02-14-2008, 09:36 PM | #11 |
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02-14-2008, 09:38 PM | #12 |
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You can laugh, but that zany, gurning, obnoxious Roddy Piper wannabe has starred in three movies off the top of my head in which he put in a fine and sensible performance... The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Number 23.
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02-14-2008, 09:44 PM | #13 |
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Also, Nicholson in About Schmidt
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02-14-2008, 09:46 PM | #14 |
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And Nicholson in Batman....
Hell, Nicholson in anything he didn't win for. |
02-14-2008, 09:58 PM | #15 |
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Daniel Day-Lewis for Gangs of New York
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02-15-2008, 06:02 PM | #16 |
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Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth. As for those who were never nominated, Sam Jackson/Christina Ricci in Black Snake Moan
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02-15-2008, 10:51 PM | #17 |
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Sam Jackson in The Negotiator.
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