bluetoast

Been around on Youtube, but I just saw it on AICN and thought it was pretty funny.

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TomOpus

Didn't know him and Joe Spinell hung out. That's pretty awesome in itself.

Groucho

Hey, is that Joe Spinell?

Nick Danger

Good year for Best Picture nominations.

bluetoast

Yeah, and the other guy is identified as Frank Pesce, the guy buying cigarettes from Axel in Beverly Hills Cop. Both of those guys were originally supposed to be in Jaws apparently.

stroszeck

Funny, Spielberg also said about Barry Lyndon that year that "it's like walking through the Louvre without lunch."

JumpCutz

That's a great Joe Spinell clip.

TomOpus

I could see Joe as one of the fishermen on the dock that gets taken out.

Or he could've played Ben Gardner

bluetoast

Good call! That's what was planned. Just found this:

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Supermallet

Supposedly he also said about Gandhi when it won, "Gandhi was a great man, but ET is a great film."

Well, he was right about Gandhi.

bluetoast

Yeah Attenborough himself was pretty confident that E.T. would win.

TomOpus

Wow, never really knew that but I wonder if I had seen that documentary on Joe. If it's on the Maniac DVD then I probably did see it.

Supermallet

Choosing Gandhi over ET was one of the better calls the Academy made.

gp1086

Is Jaws the last time a semi-horror movie got nominated for Best Picture? I guess some people may consider The Silence of the Lambs horror.

TomOpus

The Crying Game was pretty horrifying

MoviePage

Depending on how strict your definition of "horror" is, you could include Black Swan, No Country for Old Men, The Sixth Sense, and maybe even LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring on that list.

Also, I remember one critic hilariously referring to Elizabeth as "a vampire movie without vampires," but that may be stretching it a bit.

Supermallet

Black Swan and The Sixth Sense I can get on board with as horror. Not No Country or LOTR.

inri222

http://www.filmsite.org/bestpics2.html

Only one true 'horror' film has won Best Picture, The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Also, Hitchcock's first US film and Best Picture winner Rebecca (1940)
may be counted as the only winning suspense-thriller.
[Best Picture nominees in this suspense-thriller genre have included Suspicion (1941), Gaslight (1944), Spellbound (1945), and The Sixth Sense (1999).]
The Exorcist (1973) was the only horror film to be nominated for Best Picture in Academy Award history - until 1991.

Supermallet

I don't see how a movie with horrific ghosts isn't horror, but whatever.

TomOpus

What about District 9? Sure it was mainly sci-fi but with the transformation that Wikus was going through was sorta horror-ish.

RoadToPerdition

Spielberg's comment about "commercial backlash" makes me also think of Titanic. While that obviously won a ton of awards, I recall that everyone originally LOVED the movie and you couldn't find somebody that didn't, then later on, magically, a lot of people said they didn't like it.

Groucho

Correction: a lot of women loved that movie. They've since moved onto Twilight and the like.

Supermallet

It's called hindsight. You get swept up in the wave, and then later when you watch it with a more critical eye the flaws are glaring.

whoopdido

Poor Steve. Wonder what happened to that guy. Just think if he had been nominated. Maybe we would actually know who he is today.

RoadToPerdition

I'd hope we can all agree Titanic is higher quality than Twilight.