HOW MUCH MONEY WAS EXCHANGED FOR THE TAINTED OSCAR WIN?
shareI'm just glad no one mentioned Chicago...
shareI wouldn't call it the worst, but certainly one of the worst. It didn't deserve any of the Oscars it got. For me, the worst was An American In Paris (aging dancer falls in love with a bucktoothed lady in her twenties....filmed on a sound stage nowhere near Paris....boring). That said, Miss Judy's three minutes on screen and the "best" actress walking through her part hardly earned them an Oscar. It shouldn't have even been nominated for any Oscars.
shareOut of Africa...THE most boring movie of all time. Pure horrid doldrums. I walked out.
shareHahaha. It's among my top 10 worst, too. Woman goes to Africa, falls in love with a man....he dies in a plane crash, and she goes back to England. If it hadn't been for the plane ride over the falls, I would have fallen asleep. Boring!
shareJohnboy1221 wrote: Woman goes to Africa, falls in love with a man....he dies in a plane crash, and she goes back to England.
It might help if you actually watched the film and paid attention. She was from (and returned to) Denmark. Didn't you hear her accent?
It worked better when they remade it as The English Patient. That pissed everyone off with an Oscar grab too. Perhaps it's one of those master stories we keep hearing about.
The last time I suggested on the film board that none of us took any notice of the Oscars, because they were such blatant advertising, I got shouted down by the American contingent. It's one of the reasons why I never went to the US, even when I could afford to.
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The worst Oscar winner of all time? I take it you have never seen Chariots of Fire, Cimarron, or The Greatest Show on Earth.
shareI agree that they were bad choices (and yes, I have seen all three), but I would gladly watch any of them again rather than sit through this turkey one more time. That said, I don't think Shakespeare In Love is the worst. It is An American In Paris, hands down.
shareThe Kings Speech over The Social Network
Crash over Brokeback Mountain
The English Patient over Fargo / Jerry Maguire
Chicago over The Pianist
Dances with Wolves over Goodfellas
Argo over Django Unchained
and worst of all...
Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan
Hahaha. You definately have a point. Here's my list of the worst choices for Best Picture:
1. Shakespeare In Love
2. An American In Paris
3. Out Of Africa
4. Annie Hall
5. Amadeus
6. Gigi
7. King's Speech
8. Crash
9. Chicago
10. Slumdog Millionaire
11. The Artist
Wow, you included Amadeus and Annie Hall...
But not the Hurt Locker, The Last Emperor of China, Argo, 12 Years a Slave, Patton?
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I actually liked The Last Emperor, but the others not so much. Amedeus just bored me to death, and Annie Hall was nothing more than a movie about a nerd whining about his love life. Yuk!
share5. Amadeus
Hurtlocker over Avatar.
shareI usually dislike romantic period movies, but this is a really good movie, it was beautiful and enjoyable, and even if Saving Private Ryan is better, i think is ridiculous that it has 7.2 rating, while Keira Knightley's *beep* period dramas like Pride and Prejudice and Atonement have almost an 8.
I'm not saying this deserved it btw, but i'm sure there are worst winners.
All the money that is spent on the Oscars, by the competing studios, actually goes to the CAMPAIGNS. The 'payola' theory is easily disproven - why would only ONE studio, out of many, be willing to 'grease palms' of the Oscar voters? And if the studio was actually doing this, dont you think word would leak out at some point? Consider the "Quiz Show" and "Payola" scandals of the 50s, and how the secrets involved in these matters couldn't be kept for long.
shareby mrmathexpert4 » Sat Mar 7 2015 22:14:07
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HOW MUCH MONEY WAS EXCHANGED FOR THE TAINTED OSCAR WIN?
How much $ is exchanged in any award?
Only "they" would know
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