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Old 06-20-2010, 07:54 PM   #7
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Personally I though Mickey Rourke should have beaten Sean Penn, but I wouldn't call that a robbery since Sean Penn did turn out an Oscar-worthy performance.

I've always felt the same way about Annie Hall and Star Wars. I adore Annie Hall, and understand why it won, but given Star Wars quality and importance, it's a tough pill to swallow that it never won the academy award. In most years it certainly would have.
I don't believe Wizard of Oz won either. I also just noticed King Kong wasn't even nominated. I guess the Academy's general distaste for most things fantastical is nothing new.

I'm pretty sure Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick never won an oscar for their efforts, not counting revisionist lifetime achievement awards.
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