Hindsight can be a terrible thing.
We look back after a few years (or, in some cases, only months or weeks) and decide that the wrong decision was made, that the film that was then deemed pretty good is actually a total classic and deserves all of the awards.
Just look at Crash beating Brokeback Mountain for Best Picture for evidence that, yes, the Academy can get things very, VERY wrong.
In the days after The Shape Of Water taking home Best Picture over Three Billboards, Lady Bird or Dunkirk, will we look back in a few years and think to ourselves “Oh… that was a mistake.”
The Big Reviewski folks discuss what they think were biggest ever Oscar snubs in its awards’ 90 year history, and discuss it in the link below from 03:55 to 09:59:
Eoghan went with Arrival, feeling it was overlooked in the two-horse race between Moonlight and La La Land, mainly because it breaks his heart literally every single time he watches.
Rory went WAY back, all the way back to Alfred Hitchcock. Despite being one of the greatest directors of all time, he was nominated five times, but never took home the statuette, and wasn’t even nominated for some of his more iconic classics like Vertigo and North By Northwest.
Laura felt that while Titanic was nominated for 14 Oscars, and went on to win 11 of them, the movie being recognised across the board… except for poor Leonardo DiCaprio, who wasn’t even nominated. He made up for it a few years later though.
And finally, Paul’s biggest snub award went to The Social Network. In the same year that Fincher’s scathing drama on modern business mentality went up against the likes of Toy Story 3, Inception, Winter’s Bone, Black Swan, True Grit, The Kids Are Alright, and The Fighter, they all lost the Best Picture Oscar to… The King’s Speech? Ugh.
So what do you reckon was the biggest Oscar snub of all time? Let us know in the comments on Facebook and Twitter.
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