The requirements for participants in this issue must include:
- I have watched the Best picture winner of the respective year that’s being replaced
- Watched not necessarily a better movie that year, but a movie that I at least deem to have been a better best picture winner, for the sake of the Academy
- And to make it more challenging, the movie I picked can’t even have ever been nominated for best picture.
Therefore I couldn’t pick Saving Private Ryan over Shakespeare in Love in 1998, because A; I’ve never seen Shakespeare in Love and B; Saving Private Ryan was nominated for the award. So Yes, I want to pick out the biggest fucking mistakes that never even got a fucking nomination let alone should’ve won the damn award. Unfortunately I haven’t seen a lot of the films that won BP during the 1950s and 1960s and I don’t really plan on watching any of them anytime soon. But it must be noted that its a well known fucking sin that Singing in the Rain, Vertigo, The Searchers, North By Northwest and 2001: A space odyssey, some of the greatest pieces of American motion picture art ever made, never received a nomination. The oscars really are a joke, but fuck it Im writring this shit anyways. Here are are my five nomination-less movies that I believe if the Academy Awards should go back and change to win Best Picture over what really did:
1995: Heat over Braveheart
Michael Mann’s Heat is a true American Epic that does absolutely everything better than Braveheart does, on a modern day level, which I find significantly more impressive and entertaining. Action/Crime movies strive to have the grasp of 1990s realism and suspense that Heat bears. Braveheart is a great story, but it’s an epic story we’ve seen before and after it, to better extremes with the likes of Lawrence of Arabia and Gladiator. For me, Heat is just way fucking better and way fucking cooler and you’re wrong if you disagree.
1992: Malcom X over Unforgiven
Don’t get me wrong, Unforgiven is great, but looking back, it should’ve been Malcom X. I’m not sure why or how it never received a nomination, but its an incredible biopic. I would recommend Malcom X over Unforgiven to absolutely everyone I know, as it is so much more powerful. more important and has aged significantly better.
2012: The Master over Argo
****As of 2009 the Best Picture nomination pool went from 5 nominess a year, to 10 nominees a year.
How did The Master not receive an academy award nomination out of 10 movies? Theres no fucking way you could show me 10 movies more deserving of a nomination maybe ever let alone just from 2012. And, Argo fucking sucks. Don’t ever bother. It’s crazy that it won best Best Picture. Now, the fact this happened the same year, is a severe slap in the face to Mr. Anderson. How the fuck does a Ben Affleck (who I love) junk movie get nominated and then win (!!!), over a movie from the best himself, Paul Thomas Anderson. Absurd. Argo is not even half the movie that The Master truly is. I’m sorry this one is not even close.
1980: The Shining over Ordinary People
Ordinary People is an okay movie. I don’t know if anyone has watched Ordinary People since it won Best Picture in 1980. I do know that a lot of people to this day watch the movie about Jack and Wendy Torrance. The Shining, is a revolutionary, cult classic, genre defying, all time in every fucking way movie. People will be watching The Shining for the next two hundred years. The Shining will live as long as movies are alive. Absolute crime it was never even nominated.
1999: Magnolia over American Beauty
American Beauty is a great movie, and it was a pivotal BP win because no movie with context like American Beauty had ever won before. With that said, even within its own context and honestly in everyway possible Magnolia fucking shits on it. In every single way that American Beauty thrives, Magnolia thrives seven times as hard. Every single great aspect/scene/moment/character of American Beauty, Magnolia has seven times as much. Magnolia is massive, it carries the whole weight of the world. People may come out of watching American Beauty a different person, I actually quite enjoyed it the first two times I watched it, but there’s no way you can watch Magnolia and not come out as a totally different human being. If American Beauty hit you like a slap in the face, then Magnolia would be like getting a right hook from Jon Jones. It is miraculous.