Goat3001

I thought Brokeback was great but I thought Capote was the best picture that year. I know I'm in the minority there but I'm surprised that Capote rarely gets mentioned amongst the best films of that year. Choosing Capote certainly wouldn't have been a bigger blunder than choosing Crash.

cleaver

Kevin Costner and Nic Cage.

jjcool

repost.
http://forum.dvdtalk.com/movie-talk/...ed-oscars.html

OldBoy

really, the movie as a whole? i thought Hoffman absolutely deserved the Oscar and glad he got it, but the movie as a whole i didn't think should have been nominated. i thought Brokeback saw amazing performances from the entire cast, Williams and Hathaway as well.

Mr. Cinema

1998 was a terrible year
Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan
Roberto Benigni over Ian McKellen (I'll never understand this one)
Gwyneth Paltrow over Cate Blanchett

Travis McClain

I'm still miffed that "Beauty and the Beast" got "Everything I Do (I Do It for You)"'s trophy for song in '91. Other than watching Letterman host, I haven't watched the Academy Awards since.

OldBoy

ugh. very true on all accounts!

wm lopez

Richard Dryfuss in 1977.
ORDINARY PEOPLE in 1980.

Goat3001

Just my opinion. I wasn't as impressed with Brokeback Mountain as others were. I thought it was great and one of the best of the year but I enjoyed Capote and Munich more. Personally, I didn't buy into the "nobility" of the whole thing. I just don't see how making a movie about homosexuality in rural Wyoming in the 60's is any more noble than making a movie about 1972 murders in Munich or a movie about the relationship between a writer and a murderer. Then again, I was 20 when the movie came out so maybe the whole idea of homophobia didn't hit me as hard as it would someone that lived during a time when it was less accepted. I wasn't really impressed with Milk either (outside of Sean Penn's performance).

But nothing against Brokeback Mountain. It was great. I just think the movie would be an afterthought now if it had won Best Picture. As it stands, I think it's overrated because people think it was snubbed. I also think that at the time the hype of the movie was too big. There were people proclaiming that it would be remembered 20 years from now and 4 years later the only time it seems to come up is when someone mentions that it was snubbed at the Oscars.

Crash and Good Luck and Good Night had no business being nominated at all, IMO.

OldBoy

yeah, i just saw GNaGL the other day and while it was good and well played i don't think it was outstanding in anyway shape or form and very small scale, almost tv movie like.

DeanoBKN

Julia Roberts for Best Actress, Crash for Best Picture, American Beauty for Best Picture.

inri222

I have to agree
The Thin Red Line should have won best picture instead of Shakespeare in Love.

The Bus

75% of the Best Picture winners of the 1990s and 2000s.

PopcornTreeCt

Fixed.

Goldblum

Fixed.

Michael Corvin

I haven't agreed with a Best Picture winner since Braveheart in '95.

Whether he deserves it or not, I can't say, but I feel truly sorry for anyone that wins that is not Heath Ledger. The momentum and public support for him is nothing short of amazing. The pressure on the actual winner must be insane and their speech is going to have to be humble to say the least.

OldBoy

Shannon Nutt

One I disagree with...I would have picked APOLLO 13.

GoldenJCJ

I agree with you that Spacey didn't deserve it, but I think Denzel Washington in The Hurricane was far and away the best performance of the year.

chris_sc77

Al PAcino should have won best actor for Godfather II instead of Art Carney for Harry and Tonto. And Denzel should have won for Malcolm X instead of Pacino in Scent of a Woman.
Also about 95% of the song winners are pieces of shit. Aimee Mann should have won the Oscar over that piece of shit Phil collins Tarzan garbage.
And some of the worst best picture winners ever (and didnt even deserve to be nominated ) are The Lost Weekend, Chicago, Driving Miss DAisy (should have gone to Do the RIght thing that year), Crash, Ordinary People, Chariots of Fire and West Side Story.

Michael Corvin

Oh it's a great movie, but just a 'by-the-numbers' affair, IMO. Plus we just had Tom Hanks in Philadelphia ('93)& Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump('94). I love Hanks as much as the next guy, but we didn't need another Hanks vehicle in '95 winning big for three straight years. That may sound silly, but

You're just anti-Disney and want the song for the R-rated flick that's over 2 hours long to win, not based on the song's actual merit. The Tarzan soundtrack is criminally underrated. Granted the award is Best Original Song, so the award should have either gone to South Park for Blame Canada (it doesn't get more original than that) or to Sarah McLachlan for Toy Story 2 with When She Loved Me which is a song about a toy lamenting the loss of her best friend (again, pretty fucking 'original') Then again, TS2 is Disney as well so I'm sure I won't win you over on that one.

PopcornTreeCt

Frost/Nixon is a glorified TV movie.

Solid Snake

I liked Frost/Nixon fine...it's not Best Picture quality but I liked it. Martin Sheen made it more tolerable...I liked Frost a lot.

wm lopez

I was agreeing with you untill you got to WEST SIDE STORY.

NoirFan

Why the dismissal of The Lost Weekend? Sure, some elements are dated, but Milland turns in a terrific performance, and Billy Wilder's direction is top-notch. A well deserved Oscar winner, and certain entitled to a better DVD edition than it currently possesses.