The Academy Awards inspire
debate every year about whether certain films, directors, and actors were
recognized over more deserving ones, and over time, some of those overlooked
movies and performances have come to seem particularly egregious. The
Onion looks back at the biggest Oscars snubs in history.
Citizen Kane:
While Orson Welles’ magnum opus
is considered a masterpiece today, audiences in 1942 just weren’t as into being
bored out of their fucking minds.
Raging Bull:
The Academy made up for snubbing
this Martin Scorsese movie by also snubbing Goodfellas 10 years
later.
Tom Cruise:
His failure to win a Best
Actor award despite a long and illustrious film career has been attributed to
the Academy’s notorious pro-Xenu bias.
Jaws:
Was considered a shoo-in for
Best Shark.
Judy Garland:
Left out of the Best Actress
category for The Wizard Of Oz in which the 16-year-old acts, sings,
and dances in a starring role, Garland was instead awarded an adorable miniature
Oscar statuette called the Juvenile Award, which totally wasn’t patronizing at
all.
Avatar:
If we’d just given James
Cameron the stupid award back in 2009 maybe we wouldn’t have to go through four
more installments of this garbage.
Matthew Lillard:
He’s been in like 30 movies
and still not a single Oscar.
Hell Or High Water:
Many felt this gripping
modern-day Western was far more deserving than La La Land to be
mistakenly announced as the winner before losing to Moonlight.
Alfred Hitchcock:
Never won Best Director
despite his work pioneering the film style in which a bunch of fake-looking
animals attack humans for no reason.
Taxi Driver, Network,
and All The President’s Men:
All three lost Best Picture to
an equally deserving Rocky in 1976, when the film industry learned
they’re better off releasing a maximum of one good movie per year.
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