Ten best films missed the Oscar.
At the four-hour Oscar ceremony every year, the highlight is the announcement of the "Best Film Award". I believe many people expressed their regrets at that moment.
In fact, there are many excellent works that should be strong competitors for the best film award, but they have already turned away when they were nominated, which is completely irrelevant.
1. Breakfast at Tiffany's, 196 1) Nominated films: Fanny, Six Strong Men, Pimp and Nuremberg Trial Award-winning films: west side story-robert wise Blake Edward's always crazy and eccentric directing style (such as Pink Panther and Pink Panther) ) It is well controlled in Breakfast at Tiffany's. What's more, there is an elegant, beautiful and shining Audrey Hepburn under the lens!
Breakfast at Tiffany's is adapted from truman capote's novel, in which Audrey Hepburn plays a senior escort girl. She comes from a poor family and lives a carefree life, wandering around Greenwich Village all day, hoping to find a rich husband. She often lingers outside the famous jewelry store in the morning, looking at the glittering jewels and trying to forget her past, but the shadow of the past haunts her from time to time.
Maybe that's the problem. The audience is used to her playing an elegant woman and can't bear to see her being polluted. Maybe voters at the Academy of Film Arts think that Audrey Hepburn's Holly looks like a high-class prostitute. Jane fonda won an Oscar for her role as a prostitute in Liuxiang and Grassland. At that time, the Oscar would nominate a prostitute, which was quite painting. However, when Breakfast at Tiffany's was staged, it was still in the conservative 1960s, and many people could not accept such a performance.
As the saying goes, Black Edward and Audrey Hepburn should feel better, because john hughes's classic film Mismatch for Marilyn Monroe and clark gable is also Oscar's regret.
2. Chaos (Ran, 1985) nominated films: Purple Color, kiss of the spider woman, Pritz Honor and Witness Award-winning film: Out of Africa. This can be used to explain why Japanese director Akira Kurosawa's epic "Chaos" was not nominated for the best film award. This film is based on King Lear.
Japanese movie master Akira Kurosawa was internationally renowned for The Seven Samurai, and his handling of war scenes was unparalleled. Chaos is the most expensive film in Japanese film history. The war scenes in the film are the most unforgettable and unparalleled of Kurosawa, just like the pounding of horses' hooves from lightning, the sound of trumpets resounding through the sky, and the chaos of sword dancing. Chaos is a work full of sound and anger, and its significance is particularly far-reaching.
Although the film has gorgeous contemporary costumes and broad historical background, its significance is still too profound for Hollywood. The plot describes the feudal monarch of Japan at that time, who felt desperate because his home was falling apart. Such a theme does not meet the requirements of a good Hollywood movie.
However, the most fatal reason for this film's unpopularity comes from the universal fear in Hollywood: subtitles! Everyone knows that people in Hollywood can't read.
3. The Queen of Africa (195 1) was nominated for the following films: Decision Before Dawn, Place in the Sun and The Tyrant Burned the City (Quo Vadis? ) The award-winning film A Streetcar Named Desire: Americans in Paris, exotic scenes, and a romantic adventure story. The Queen of Africa sounds like a movie suitable for Oscar, but it has not been nominated.
The story describes that during World War I, a river boat captain (played by humphrey bogart) selling goods along the river escorted a rigid female priest (played by katharine hepburn) to downstream Africa. Humphrey bogart and katharine hepburn are both masters of quarreling, and their dialogue in the film is wonderful. Hepburn's acting is really lifelike, and humphrey bogart is no less. The Queen of Africa is his highest achievement in film.
When The North African Bourne won the Oscar for Best Picture, the humphrey bogart for Best Actor fell through. 195 1 year, Oscar corrected this mistake, and they finally awarded him the best actor, but they made another mistake: they nominated the actress, script and director of Queen Africa, but let them go home empty-handed!
How can a film be nominated for other major awards, but not the best film award? The reason is an old saying, because people in Hollywood don't know what they are doing.
4. Metropolis (1927- 1928) nominated movies: The Last Order, The Slumdog, seventh heaven and The Way of All Living Beings. The first Oscar was completely a "political event", because when the Oscar was established, Hollywood was in turmoil because of labor problems. Perhaps the founder thought that a grand banquet and some dazzling awards could appease the tired Hollywood employees.
Because of this, the founders of the Oscar believe that the first films nominated for best picture must be made in China. It's a pity that Friedzlan's Metropolis is a German film, so it was crossed out!
The story of Metropolis tells that underground workers are sweating and the bosses on the ground are making faces, which may remind everyone of their trade union problems. Anyway, we waited for 50 years before we got a blockbuster like Metropolis, blade runner. However, the skill of this film is not half as good as that of the German expressionist classic Metropolis.
To make matters worse, the metropolis was even given a double cold shoulder. Louis Meyer of MGM knew that Oscar needed some international awards, so German director F.W. Mono's work Sunrise won the so-called best artistic quality award, which was confusing and was later excluded from the Academy Awards.
Verb (the abbreviation of verb) Do the right thing. 1989) Nominated films: Born on the 4th of July, Dead Poets Society, My Left Foot, Dream Field: Drive Out the Daisy. The award-winning film Dream Field: Drive Out the Daisy is an inflammatory film made by black director Spike Lee, entitled Do What You Should Do. Ironically, three nominated films are all about prejudice and politics. The hottest day in Brooklyn describes "doing what you have to do". The explosive event caused by racial issues is also about race and prejudice, but it didn't get an Oscar nomination like "Affection".
Strangely, a film about racial tension directed by African-Americans lost to Australian director Bruce Berisford's "Affection", which described racial prejudice in the southern United States.
From the beginning of rosie perez's provocative dance to the final declaration of "attack power", "Do what you should do" fired the audience's emotions to the highest point. Spike Lee's classic works are not disappointing. At first, all the unknown characters in the film became popular in the film industry, including: rosie perez, Samuel Jackson, Danny Arrow, John Tetoro, martin lawrence and so on. Director Spike Lee performed pizza for his younger brother Mocky, and his acting skills were first-class.
6. Some people like it. 1959) Nominated movies: Anatomy of Murder, Het Achterhuis, The Story of a Nun, and the best award-winning movie: The eternal classic in billy wilder, Passion is a gangster comedy movie starring Jack Mona Lee and Tony Curtis. They were chased by gangsters because they witnessed the murder. In order to escape, they disguised as men and joined a women's symphony orchestra. Before long, they found it a piece of cake to run for their lives. How to tell Marilyn Monroe, a sexy band girl, is more important!
Billy wilder won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for this witty and intelligent film, plus the top acting skills of Jack Mona Lee (nominated for Best Actor), Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe, and the photography of director billy wilder, who was also nominated for the Oscar for Best Photography. However, such a good film was not nominated for best picture.
7. Searcher, 1956) Nominated film: Friendly Persuasion, Giant, King and I, Ten Commandments Award-winning film: Around the World in Eighty Days Oscar has always been a cowboy of westerns. Someone once asked director john ford what kind of works he made, and he replied, "I make westerns." He wouldn't say that if he answered according to Oscar's preference.
John ford won the Oscar for Best Director four times, but none of them were westerns. He created a genre film of westerns for the film industry, which is one of the few original art genres in American movies, but Oscar regarded his "Searcher" as a broken tire.
This film can be said to be one of the most wonderful performances of heroic honor. It depicts a civil war veteran with a realistic gun battle and exciting pursuit, and devotes his life to tracing the whereabouts of his little niece kidnapped by Indians.
8. Lights of the City, 1930- 193 1) Nominated films: Easterling, Headline, Skippy, The Corner of the Merchant Award-winning film: West Malone Many people think that Chaplin's last pantomime Lights of the City is the highest artistic achievement of his acting career. There is a simple reason. The story describes a little tramp who fell in love with a blind flower girl, so he wholeheartedly helped her recover her sight. The film is full of faint sadness, but Chaplin's delicate, straightforward and humorous body language skillfully balances it.
In the film, the friendship between a little tramp and a millionaire alcoholic adds a lot of laughter to the film, but the most interesting representative fragments are a boxing match and a crazy dance in the restaurant.
Why is this movie a pity? Because Oscar found that "silence is no longer golden", the era of mime has passed, and audio films are popular, but Chaplin never said a word in the film.
We should play Oscar. The Library of Congress listed City Lights in the National Film Catalogue, but none of the films nominated in that year were included in the library. In this way, little Chaplin finally won the final victory!
Nine, "Four Tones in the Rain" (1952) Nominated films: Love in a brothel, Noon, Legend of the Heroes after the Robbery, My thatched door is closed-but now it is open for you. Award-winning film: The Greatest Performance on Earth. In a sense, the leading actor Jin Kaili failed to get the Oscar nomination for best picture.
Nowadays, "Spring Blossoms" is regarded as the best musical in Oscar, and every condition of it is in line with Oscar's taste. This is a movie about Hollywood, which pays equal attention to elegance and popularity, and has witty and beautiful choreography, photography, directing, soundtrack, songs, dancing and acting skills.
The songs in the film are all top-notch, including Donna O 'Connor's funny Make em Laugh, Donna O 'Connor's naive Moses Hypothesis and Jin Kaili's clumsy and lovely Broadway Melody.
In fact, Flower of Youth is not only the regret of the best film, but also the absence of all major awards. Even the Oscar didn't award it the best score, but it was awarded to another movie, A Song in My Heart.
X. Rear Window, 1954) Nominated films: Kane mutiny, Country Girl, Seven Brides of Seven Brothers, Three Coins in a Fountain Award-winning film: At the seaside. Therefore, Hitchcock's film has never been nominated for best picture. Imagine: 1959 was not nominated, 1960 was not favored, and 1963 struck out!
However, if you want to choose an Oscar-worthy Hitchcock movie, the back window will definitely stand out. Some people may think it's "vertigo", but this film is too complicated and turbulent for Oscar, and it also has structural problems. "Rear Window" has the brightest lineup and the most exciting plot. It is the most perfect suspense film in Hollywood so far, and every shot is arranged properly and there is no waste. It describes a reporter (played by jimmy stewart) who can't move because of a foot injury. He accidentally witnessed a murder through the telescope in the back window, so he tried to find out the truth of the murder with the help of his beautiful girlfriend (played by Grace Kelly).
For Oscar, perhaps Hitchcock is digging his own grave, because he once said a famous saying: "Actors are animals." Later, he revised it to: "I mean, actors should be treated like animals." This sentence is really classic! But for those Oscar-winning voters, how can they stand it?