In preparation for the impending awards ceremony on Sunday, I asked the other A Mrk about what he thought the WORST acting award ever given out at the Oscars were.
Al texted me back immediately with the following:
"Cuba Gooding Jr."
I was SO ashamed that I hadn't come up with this myself (my excuse is that I've blocked him and anything to do with Jerry Macguire out of my memory).
This prompted us to list what all the worst Oscar travesties were/are. And we are not alone in doing this activity.
A website called Grantland is currently hosting a battle for the most egregious Oscar Moment Ever. The round of 32 is already finished, but you can still vote on the remaining battles on their facebook page. They came up with some good ones, some of which we A Mrk's agree with (and others we do not--I LOVE Shakespeare in Love!)
Here is my list of the 21 Top Oscar Travesties
What do you guys think are the worst Oscar moments? Hit the comments and let us know!!!
Al texted me back immediately with the following:
"Cuba Gooding Jr."
I was SO ashamed that I hadn't come up with this myself (my excuse is that I've blocked him and anything to do with Jerry Macguire out of my memory).
This prompted us to list what all the worst Oscar travesties were/are. And we are not alone in doing this activity.
A website called Grantland is currently hosting a battle for the most egregious Oscar Moment Ever. The round of 32 is already finished, but you can still vote on the remaining battles on their facebook page. They came up with some good ones, some of which we A Mrk's agree with (and others we do not--I LOVE Shakespeare in Love!)
Here is my list of the 21 Top Oscar Travesties
1. Kevin Costner winning best director and Dances With Wolves period (over Goodfellas?)
2. Cuba Gooding Jr.
3. The Hurt Locker. Period.
4. Al Pacino never winning for The Godfather
5. Nicholas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas over Sean Penn in Dead man walking
6. Martin Scorsese denied until The Departed, and then winning for the Departed b/c it is the worst movie ever.
7. Billy Crystal's blackface
8. James Franco in every way shape and form.
9. Seth MacFarlane, preemptively
10. Melissa Leo’s win, particularly her Oscar campaign print ads
11. Rocky for best picture over Taxi Driver, Network, and All the President's Men
12. Stanley Kubrick never winning Best Director
13. Whoopi Goldberg for Ghost and Ghost winning best original screenplay over anything
14. Everything to do with Forrest Gump. Esp over Pulp Fiction and The Shawshank Redemption
15. John Cazale never nominated in his tragically way-too-short, but nearly perfect career
16. Tilda Swinton not being nominated for We Need to Talk About Kevin, and instead Rooney Mara being nominated for Dragon Tattoo.
17. Tommy Lee Jones for the Fugitive, but TLJ in general
18. Annie Hall over Star Wars
19. Roberto Benigni's lunacy and win over Ed Norton for American History X
20. Marlon Brando not winning best actor for A Streetcar Named Desire
21. Almost Famous for best original screenplay over anything
Alex had these to add:
1. The Empire Strikes Back not even bring nominated for Best Picture.
2. Nora Ephron never winning anything (she lost all her screenwriting nominations)
3. Crash winning best picture.
4. The Princess Bride receiving only one nomination - in the song category. (!!!!)
5. Speaking of which, the entire best original song category.
6. Robert Downey Jr receiving a best supporting actor nom for Tropic thunder.
7. Every montage.
8. Alan Rickman not getting nominated for Die Hard
What do you guys think are the worst Oscar moments? Hit the comments and let us know!!!
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