Movie or Actor that should have won an Oscar
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MovieManCin2 — 7 months ago(August 13, 2025 03:57 AM)
I know that, but it didn't win for
Best Picture.
That is what we're discussing here, Shaquatta.
MAGA! FAFO!
Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. Dumbocraps: evil people who celebrate murder. 
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LorqVonRay1999 — 2 months ago(January 25, 2026 08:47 PM)
Jaws should have won over One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which is little more than a made for tv movie. Why it is so popular is beyond me. Not impressed with it at all. I would have picked Barry Lyndon or Three Days of the Condor or even the underrated SF film Rollerball over Cuckoo's.
Saving Private Ryan should have won in 1999. The only other film nominated I might have picked is The Thin Red Line. Of all films that year I would have picked Dark City, which I doubt was even nominated for anything.
Raiders of the Lost Ark should have won easily over the pedestrian Chariots of Fire. Minus one memorable beach scene with amazing music early on it is one giant bore of a film. Raiders is a masterpiece and the greatest adventure film ever made.
As much as I love Rocky there is little doubt in my mind Network should have ran away with Best Picture.
It's safe to say Apocalypse Now, a brilliant and often times deeply unsettling film should have won over Kramer vs Kramer. Or at least Breaking Away should have won.
How Green Was My Valley is a beautiful moving film but it is clear Citizen Kane should have won. Or I would have even slightly preferred Maltese Falcon.
Barbara Stanwyck was nominated four times but never won. Was given an honorary Oscar but that isn't quite the same. I would have given her the Oscar for Stella Dallas, Double Indemnity, Meet John Doe, Remember the Night, Ball of Fire, Sorry Wrong Number or even The Lady Eve. One great performance after another.
With all the high quality movies released in 1968 the Best Picture went to Oliver!. I can think of at least ten films I would have picked over that and probably a lot more. Today it is obvious 2001 a space odyssey should have won. It's a transcendental film still unlike any other ever made.
Sigourney Weaver is one of my all time favorites and I would have nominated her for Alien, her performance was that impressive but her supporting role in Working Girl should have nabbed her an Oscar. It's still kinda astounding she was nominated for Aliens. Not because she didn't deserve it but because it's not the type of film the Oscars reward for acting. I would have given her the Oscar for that, too. I guess to Oscar, her being nominated was reward enough.
Bill Murray should have won best actor for Lost in Translation. Not just because he was excellent but because Sean Penn was awful in the ridiculously overrated Mystic River. The only good thing I can say about Penn is his performance not quite as horrid as Tim Robbins' laughably bad performance. BOTH won Oscars for this film.