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How Did Bob Hoskins not Get an Oscar Nomination


Bob Hoskins was so awesome in this film. How is it possible that he was not at least nominated for an academy award. Didn't the academy at least feel guilty for not giving him the oscar for Mona Lisa, and give him an oscar nod this time.

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I agree with you. Hoskins has always been a great actor, and he's been robbed many times by 'Oscar'.

The Academy Awards, to me, are largely a joke, a popularity contest among those who furiously lobby for recognition. By so doing, they squeeze out those who are far more deserving. Hoskins is not a self-promoter, which might explain why the Academy tends to ignore him.

Picking Oscar winners is a frenetic contest because of the money involved. I'm not sure it has that much to do with cinematic art.

I'd really like to see an authentic awards process involving film critics, film teachers, actors, directors, etc., so we can more accurately determine who are the most REALLY deserving candidates. The most egregious example of omission that I can recall is David Thewlis in Mike Leigh's Naked (1993). He delivered, in my opinion, one of the greatest performances in film history. He was hailed around the world, yet never received a sniff from the Academy. Thewlis, too, was not a self-promoter.

In 2006, as a guest on Ricky Gervais's series Extras, Kate Winslet joked that acting in a Holocaust film was a sure-fire way to get an Oscar. It was a prophetic comment: three years later, she took one away for The Reader, a Holocaust-themed flick.

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This comment is many years later but I can't resist making it. I believe the surest way to win an Oscar is to imitate someone who actually lived or lives. It's become a contest of who can mimic someone's traits. I cringe when another person wins who most likely had the luxury of studying unlimited material and film clips of the person they portrayed. I'm not denying that takes some bit of skill but I hardly think it's on the same level as creating a living breathing being from words on paper. I think there should be a separate category for such portrayals along with a category for beautiful actresses who appear without makeup, the other surefire way to capture an award. Maybe we should give Rich Little a lifetime achievement award?

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No matter how great a performance is in any movie, in order for the academy to take notice, the film has do at least "break even" box office numbers. If there's no buzz at the theaters, it never even gets a first look from the academy.

This film was a "dismal" box office disaster.

Sometimes a Director believes enough in his film to submit it to film festivals, like Sundance. A film that turns heads at a film festival, picks up steam, and can catapult it to success. At that point, performances are noticed.

This film won no awards that I am aware of, and I don't think it was even submitted to film festivals.

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