Quiz Show is so much better than the other films that were nomintated (and yes, I have seen all of them). The slick directing, the vivid screenplay, the stylish cinematography, the great performances, everything in this movie was an example of film making of the highest quality. It deserved everything it was nominated for, and should've been nominated for (and won) other categories.
I agree that this movie was shunted to the side. It is absolutely superb.
What surprises me is how many people actually like Forest Gump. From a sardonic and very funny novel comes one of the most sappy, earnest, icky movies of that or any other year.
I much prefer Four Weddings and a Funeral to Forrest Gump. I'd have been pleased if *any* of the other nominees had won, but particularly if Quiz Show had won.
Then again, since when has an Oscar win necessarily been about "the best"?
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I agree with bridgestm!
But I never liked Forrest Gump and I've always thought Tom Hanks didn't deserve that Oscar.....Ralph Fiennes deserved it for Quiz Show, but also for The English Patient, Schindler's List, .....He's one of the greatest, most talented(and most beautiful!)actors of alltimes.He remembers me mythical Peter O'Toole.....Even in Sunshine, directed by Hungarian Istvan Szvabo(but here in Italy didn't arrived 'cos the distributor had trouble w/justice.....), he won the European Oscar and he played 3 roles......About the cast of Quiz Show the only nominated was Paul Scofield(who won the Oscar in 1966 as Thomas More), I think that the other protagonists, Rob Morrow especially, deserved a nomination......
Four Weddings And a Funeral is a top of the comedy, I simply luv it!....That's true the Academy doesn't award always the best one....(last year, Chicago, I hate that movie, The Pianist is superb, fortunately it was the moral winner....)It happens even more often.....A bit of blue.I remember when Anthony Hopkins won, I cried for joy(I'm stupid, I know....)!!But when he had to win for The Remains Of The Day......Who won instead of him?.I'm sorry but my memory is out of order, especially when there are numbers....And Titanic and this year TLOTR last episode(it seemed a soap opera)w/11 statuettes???????That's enough!!!!!!!!And movies as The Age Of Innocence or Carlito's Way were ignored............Glenn Close, Sogurney Weaver and Sharon Stone didn't win, Julia Roberts, Halle Berry and this years's s ridiculous Monster Charlize Theron did.....And so on.....Maybe the Academy Award Edition that touched me really was when Schindler's list and, finally, Steven Spielberg triumphed!!!!!Unforgettaable!!!!!
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Drama is the fave, comedy not.....Anyway why did u mention"Gandhi", that is a great film(and it was in the same year of uncomparable"E.T.-The Extraterrestrial"!!!!!), and u didn't talk about other ones?........Actually, a Pulp Fiction fan can love the biop of the Indian no-violence legendary leader?...........I think not......
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"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is a comedy? It is one of my favorite novels and I think the movie with Nicolson's performance is excellent but I think drama is a better description of its category.
sharethe best thing about knowing a lot about oscars is being able to point out where they fell short. i understand gump in '94, titanic in '97, french connection (over clockwork organe) in '71, even dances with wolves in '90. there are bigger injustices in oscar past than quiz show losing to a better movie. there's no shame in that. in my opinion, here are the biggest blunders in oscar history:
10. Michael Caine's first supporting win for "Hannah and Her Sisters," over Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe, both for "Platoon" (1986)
9. Michael Caine's second win for "Cider House Rules," over Tom Cruise ("Magnolia"), Michael Clarke Duncan ("Green Mile"), Jude Law ("Talented Mr. Ripley") and Haley Joel Osment ("Sixth Sense") (1999)
8. The defeat of "The Sorrow and the Pity," a morally challenging investigation of the occupation of France in World War II, by "The Hellstrom Chronicle," a flick about bugs, in the documentary category (1971)
7. "Shakespeare in Love" beats out "Saving Private Ryan" for best film (1998)
6. "Driving Miss Daisy" wins best picture, beating out "My Left Foot" and "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989)
5. Roberto Benigni wins the Best Actor award for "Life is Beautiful" over Tom Hanks ("Saving Private Ryan"), Ian McKellan ("Gods and Monsters"), Nick Nolte ("Affliction") and Edward Norton ("American History X") (1998)
4. Stanley Kubrick's only Oscar came for Special Effects for "2001:A Space Oddysey," and lost best director that year to Carol Reed's "Oliver!" and doesn't get a best film nomination (1968)
3. "Apocalypse Now" losing best picture and director to Robert Benton's "Kramer Vs Kramer" (1979)
2. Robert Redford's "Ordinary People" winning best picture and director over "Raging Bull," considered to be the greatest film to be spawned out of the '80s (1980)
1. "Citizen Kane," considered the greatest film ever made, lost best picture and director to John Ford's "How Green Was My Valley" (1941)
NOTE: This doesn't mean I don't like these people or films. Michael Caine is one hell of an actor, but in those years, it should've gone to other people, but he was great in "Alfie".
I agreed with the Academy's choice in 7, 6, and 3 (though, Coppola should've gotten the Oscar for directing).
I think Shakespeare in Love is one of the most underrated films of the 90's. Overshadowed by the more popular Saving Private Ryan (which was great in many ways, but I thought the story/plot were horrible). And while My Left Foot certainly had great acting, I don't think the movie as a whole was of the same calibre as Driving Miss Daisy.
And I flat-out don't like Apocalypse Now. It's great to look at. Coppola was a great director (I emphasize was), and that film certainly shows it. But I just don't see why that film's loved by so many.
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I agree with everyone who said that Quiz Show should have won something over Forrest Gump. There is NO WAY Gump should have won over such amazingly good movies as Shawshank and Quiz Show. Watch either of those two today and they stand up much better than Gump. Also best actor definitely should have gone to someone other than Tom Hanks (not that I don't like him)--Tim Robbins, John Turturro, and Ralph Fiennes were all excellent. But Rob Morrow definitely should have been nominated for best actor!! I can't believe he wasn't. (More anti-Semitism???)He played the part of Dick Goodwin so well I hear his voice in my head hours after watching the film! Morrow has definitely been underused and underrated. Maybe his new t.v. show Numb3rs will make him a household name again--here's hoping he'll get some more fantastic roles for great films like Quiz Show, in the future.
shareWow! The year "Quiz Show" was nominated for Best Picture was a year with other great, great movies. That was one tough year--tough competition for the Oscar in that category. Being even nominated for that category should say a lot for this film.
"Quiz Show" was indeed an excellent movie. Kudos to Robert Redford and his excellent cast for a job well done. Screenplay was excellently written I thought.
Pulp Fiction is the best movie of 1994. Hell it is the best movie ever made. IF you did not get the brilliance of Pulp Fiction you need to watch it a couple of more times. There is just nothing but ingenious scriptwriting and lines to quote in that movie. Forest GUmp was one of the first movie I can remember seeing I was born in 1990. So I havn't been aorund that long but I know my movies. Forest Gump was good, but it just didn't have enough to take it away from Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show AND Shawshank Redemption. No way in hell did it deserve to win over these great movies. I am a big fan of Quiz Show, but it is not close to taking away Pulp Fiction from my favorite film of all time. Anyways who does not udnerstand Pulp Fiction who didn't like it or like my mom and stepdad turned it off half way through the movie and call it a bad movie should watch it one more time AT LEAST! The first time I saw Pulp Fiction I did not like it either, but I rented it one night watched it and i was blown away. It just goes to show you what 2 sittings can do. Pulp Fiction should have swept everything it was nominated for but the Acadamy will neve rbe able to get the right movies the awards they deserve. Everyone knows this I just watch it just to see who they will blow off this year. Anyways Quiz Show is a great movie I liked it a lot, but I don't think it should have won it should get third behind Pulp and Shawshank.
sharebut there's a difference between what each film maker was trying to accomplish. QT with pulp fiction had complete creative freedom to make whatever he wanted to make, and did a phenomenal job. However, something like quiz show, which is based on actual events, is fun for the whole family: well written, clean, entertaining, what more could you want? You could watch quiz show with your grandparents. I never realized gump, pulp fiction, shawshank, and quiz show were all made in the same year...that's one hell of a year
shareI won't say 1994 was the best year for movies (because there are many great years (all years ranked by best films):
1940 - The Grapes of Wrath, His Girl Friday, The Philadelphia Story, and Rebecca
1950 - Harvey, Rashomon, All About Eve, Sunset Blvd., and Cinderella
1954 - Seven Samurai, Rear Window, On the Waterfront, Sansho the Bailiff
1957 - 12 Angry Men, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Paths of Glory, Smultronstallet, The Seventh Seal
1962 - Lawrence of Arabia, Days of Wine and Roses, The Manchurian Candidate, To Kill A Mockingbird
1975 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Man Who Would Be King, Jaws, Barry Lyndon
1976 - Taxi Driver, All the President's Men, Rocky, Network
1980 - The Empire Strikes Back, Raging Bull, Ordinary People, The Shining
1992 - Unforgiven, A Few Good Men, Last of the Mohicans, Malcolm X
1994 - Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, To Live, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, and Burnt by the Sun
1995 - Braveheart, Se7en, Heat, and the Usual Suspects
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1999!!!!
- American Beauty
- Magnolia
- Being John Malkovich
- The Matrix
- Fight Club
- The Green Mile
1967!!!!
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Cool Hand Luke
- In the Heat of the Night
- Bonnie & Clyde
- The Graduate
2002!!!!
- The Hours
- Chicago
- Adaptation.
- The Pianist
- About Schmidt
- Gangs of New York
- Catch Me if You Can
- Road to Perdition
- Bowling for Columbine
- Unfaithful
- White Oleander
IMO those are great years... and those are some of the great movies made in those years....
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Movie Afficionado!
1. Shawshank Redemption
2. Ed Wood
3. Pulp Fiction
EXCUSE ME... but no one has mentioned the best year in film... '93! 1893 that is... Look at these great films:
Horse Shoeing (1893)
Blacksmith Scene (1893)
I'm sorry but yor Fight Clubs and Ouiz Shows and Godfathers don't come close to the magnificent Shoe-ing of a horse, OF A HORSE... it gets not better ladies and gents. And while i didn't like the acting in Blacksmith Scene, the Special Effects were outstanding! Very Star Wars 1&2.
hallax...have you actually seen any other movies? Of those two you mentioned, I've seen better film on teeth, mate.
Anyways, I'd put this as certainly the 2nd best American film of 1994 (behind PF and ahead of TSR). Definitely underrated. This is easily Redford's best directed movie and unlike his nom in 1980, this time he actually deserved it.
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You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it on the streets...
I don't hate anyone, but I do hate bad taste.
"Yes, I'd like a cheeseburger, please, large fries and a cosmopolitan!"
I'm not sure if that was a joke or not. Redfords nom for ordinary people in 1980, you seem to hate the movie.
You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it on the streets...
this movie clearly is not good enough to deserve the Best Picture Oscar...i personally hated this film
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In my life, the two best years for film have been 1994 and 1999
look at what came out:
1994
Pulp Fiction
Ed Wood
The Shawshank Redemption
Quiz Show
The Hudsucker Proxy
1999
Magnolia
Fight Club
Gods and Monsters
The Sixth Sense
Three Kings
Being John Malkovich
American Beauty
Dogma
The Matrix
Bowfinger
Sometimes you're the windsheild
Sometimes you're the bug
alrighty, now that I've seen all five best film Oscar nominees of 1994, I'd have to say the best on that list is "Pulp Fiction." That film is pure genius and remains entirely engaging each time I watch it. I'd put "Quiz Show" second (Ralph Fiennes should have WON that year!!), then "Shawshank", then "Four Weddings and a Funeral", then "Forrest Gump."
All of them were impressive (except for "Forrest Gump", which I found too mawkish and sappy...), and I admire all of them, but that's how I would rank them according to personal preference.
Bowfinger???? Bowfinger??!!!! You mention Bowfinger in the same thread as Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, Shawshank, Fight Club, & Magnolia????!!!! Something is wrong with that.
Pulp Fiction is very dated now IMO. i guess that is what happens when your movie is the 'cool-flavour of the month'. a movie just about 'being cool', which is what pulp fiction is, doesn't deserve to win oscars IMO.
Ed Wood was my fav movie of 1994, but Quiz Show was definitely top 5.
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You are absolutely right! I love that movie so much - besides of the great perfomance, the directing, the sreenplay, the critical background of that movie alone had to get an oscar!
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1994 is the best year for movies, but can you seriously think that Quiz Show dwarfs Pulp Fiction? Get a grip man.
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Robin - A Ballpoint Banana!!!
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i havent seen many films actually, but i have seen two of the best picture nominations and the winner of the best picture award
Quiz Show, Shawshank and Forrest Gump
i have tried however to watch Pulp, but it failed. i will try to watch it again. also, i have only seen bits of Four Weddings and have never seen the whole thing.
best picture should have gone to Quiz Show out of three i did see. interesting little film, i cant wait till i see it again.
1967:
In The heat of the night
the graduate
Bonnie and Clyde
Fistful of Dollars
THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY!!!!!!!
What more do i have to say....
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I finally saw Quiz Show and have to strongly disagree. The movie is very good but I think there is one main reason it stays just below the stratosphere of greatness. The biggest problem in this film is that the entire thing you build and build and build on sympathy, but where exactly do you want to see win? I mean, right off the bat, I knew that the show feeding the contestants answers wasn't unlawful. I kept waiting for a real crime to come around, but it never really did. The film lacked a strong center support without a real lead character. I mean Rob Morrow's character should have been the focus, but instead Mr. Redford kind of jumped from Herbie to Charles to the agent. He should have picked one to really focus in on. That would have given this film a truly great quality. But there's no chance in hell that this movie could ever beat Pulp Fiction, never.
Batman - What's yellow and writes?
Robin - A Ballpoint Banana!!!
-Batman: The Movie
ok I like pulp fiction, but can someone describe to me why it is so genius? it is just a good crime movie with good quotes that questions criminal motives and wills, there are many like it...it just has a certain style to it, but other than that why is it so genius?
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