Tag: 100NoOscar
100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 20
So there we have it. 100 not nominated for Oscars. And, honestly, we could easily do a hundred more of these absentees. The final five,…
100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 19
It is common law for many, many popular films, those loved by the moving-going public, and even professional film critics, to not make it big…
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #35; Or 100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 18
Merging my recommended links chunks with the ongoing Oscar snubbery series seemed like a great idea – there is after all so much content on…
100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 17
It is not fair to say that because A Beautiful Mind won Picture and Director, that the Academy were just not into darker movies. True,…
100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 16
The front-runners heading into the final straight of the 1995 Oscar race seemed to be Sense and Sensibility and Apollo 13. That was until the…
100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 15
Sometimes greatness in movies miss the boat with the Academy Awards. Or rather, those that vote. Be it a highly acclaimed documentary, an iconic Italian…
100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 14
1996. When the Coen brothers realized the Academy liked them, they really liked them. Kind of. In the end they liked big, romantic, sorrowful, war-time epics. A beautiful…
100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 13
2008 was another peculiar Oscar year, and literally a game-changer it would turn out wit regards to the way Best Picture would go thereafter. Slumdog Millionaire…
100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 12
Perspectives of the Oscar race clearly differ from year-to-year, person-to-person, trends and momentum can mean everything, they can mean nothing. Franchises can be misrepresented by…
100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 11
Remembering the day after the night before in 2015 when it was Birdhood versus Boyman, but there will be no talk of the twelve year…
100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 10
Just before Barbara Streisand announced Clint Eastwood as Best Director for 1992 she said commented that the award was not for a man director, or…
100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 9
So with a worthy entry here overshadowed by her co-star, I remember 2012 the year of Oscar contender movies like Hyde Park on Hudson, The Best Exotic…
100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 8
So with all the movies released in the year 2013 it came down to two apparently. The Picture / Director split at the Oscar was…
100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 7
So I’m going to go out on my own this one time only, and want to just salute the year of 2007 for Part 7….
