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This movie was ROBBED at the Academy Awards

posted 9 years ago by Christian_Juarez
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Robert Zemeckis for best director? Give me a break!!!!!! This movie could've been nominated for Best picture. With the honorable exception of Pulp fiction, all of the other nominees were weaker movies compared to "Red". Irène Jacob wasn't up for Best actress despite her BAFTA nomination

I mean for real... how come "Forrest Gump" was named the Best picture of that year? It was cheesy as hell. Entertaining? yes, but nowhere near to the masterpiece that Red was.

[–] sackofwhine 9 years ago

Why wasnt it nominated for best foreign language film?

[–] murph24 9 years ago

The unofficial word at the time was that the Academy didn't feel "Red" was "Swiss enough." Even though the country submitting it was Switzerland, and the film was shot in Switzerland with a predominantly Swiss crew, the Academy could only see a Polish director, two Polish screenwriters, a Polish cinematographer and a Polish composer.

There was an uproar, which brought the film more attention; "Red" wound up getting 3 Oscar nominations (director, screenplay and cinematography). But there was a widely held belief that if it had received the nomination it SHOULD have (foreign film), it would have won.

Personally, I couldn't care less about the naked golden men; as far as I was concerned, "Red" was the best film of the year, and maybe the decade.

[–] sackofwhine 9 years ago

Very weird, so because they werent sure what country should receive the oscar, they just didnt give him to either one. Wow, what a smart way to eliminate the best foreign language film of the year from the list. What a waste

[–] Towelie_Towel (1720) 4 years ago

The actors were also mostly French.
Even the lead actress was born in France, even though she is a "Swiss actress".

[–] parknourie 9 years ago

Academy rarely does justice to anything.

Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down and a Wagging Finger of Shame

[–] !!!deleted!!! (61689113) 9 years ago

Such a miscarriage of justice, from Cannes in '94 right through to the Oscars almost a year later!

Best Picture
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Original Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Sound
Best Art Direction
Best Original Song
Best Original Score

[–] Prismark10 8 years ago

Pulp Fiction was better than this.

It's that man again!!

[–] Ace_Spade (9390) 4 years ago

Home team advantage; Red wasn't American, Forrest Gump was.

[–] xanthas (3215) 6 months ago

This is exactly the sort of film that would NOT win a Best Picture Oscar. This is an enduring masterpiece and in a class by itself. Those kinds of films rarely win Oscars.

[–] capuchin (2684) 6 months ago

Non-American films almost never win Best Picture at the Academy Awards.

Personally, I don't think they should necessarily even be eligible for Best Picture. I think the Academy Awards should be like the Cesars. In the Cesars, to be eligible for the equivalent of Best Picture the film must have French financing. It's effectively a Best French Film Award.

And then, of course, they have an award for Best Not-French Film as well.

The Oscars should do this too. Just be officially about celebrating the American film industry, seeing as that's what they do anyway.Their pretence at being the 'centre of global filmmaking' awards in which the USA almost always comes out on top is, frankly, a bit of a stretch. And can occasionally come across as slightly patronising.

But there's nothing wrong with an American award ceremony celebrating American filmmaking, just as there's nothing wrong with any other nation celebrating their own domestic culture. So they should just do that.