The most prestigious
awards in the field of cinema, the Academy Awards, known as the Oscars is also
the oldest entertainment awards in the world. But, as most critics would claim,
even the Oscars did not get it right all the time. As the ceremony enters its
88th year this weekend, let us take a look at some of the biggest
blunders that the awards performed by not giving the ‘Best Picture’ award to
the most deserving person.
The 1941 film Citizen
Kane, which is considered as the greatest film of all time, wasn’t awarded
the Oscar and the ‘Best Picture’, for some greater logic better known to the
Academy. The Oscar went to How Green Was
My Valley, a film about which hardly anyone talks about.
The year when man set
foot on the moon for the first time, 1969, saw the Academy not acknowledging the
bold and visionary film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film wasn’t even
nominated. Instead, the Academy gave the award to Oliver, a movie
which would have seemed dated had it been released in the 1940s.
The 1996 ‘Best Picture’
winner The English Patient was a perfectly fine movie, with two
charismatic leads who had good chemistry, but it just wasn’t that interesting,
and it certainly was not the best movie of the year. Fargo, the movie that
it bet was almost every critic’s favorite, and not too forget, it was a
fan-favorite too.
Fans were outraged when
the 2008 film The Dark Knight wasn’t
even nominated. Probably this served as one of the biggest reasons for the
academy to increase the number of nominations in the ‘Best Picture’ category
from the 2009 Oscars.
Supporters of the film
2005 film Brokeback Mountain
engendered considerable discussion after Crash won
the award for ‘Best Picture’. Some critics accused the Academy of homophobia for
failing to award the award to the film. Prior to Brokeback Mountain, no film that had won the Writer's Guild,
Director's Guild, and Producer's Guild awards failed to win the Academy Award
for ‘Best Picture’. No film generated more outrage after failing to win the
Oscar for ‘Best Picture’ among the fans in recent history than Brokeback Mountain, and for all the
right reasons.
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