The Hollywood Reporter staffers share their opinions on they times they feel the Academy Awards missed the mark! Micheal Keaton losing to Eddie Redmayne in 2016, Amy Adams getting snubbed for 'Arrival,' Glen Close never winning an Oscar, horror films getting overlooked and many more! Watch and share your thoughts!
00:00The time I think the Oscars got it wrong is in 2011 when The King's Speech beat Inception at Best Picture.
00:10The time I think the Oscars got it wrong, I mean definitely how Toni Collette did not get nominated for Hereditary is a huge mystery to me.
00:20Inception was my favorite. It was the first year I had watched the Oscars. I actually threw my pillow at the TV screen.
00:27The time I think Oscars got it wrong was in 2018 when The Shape of Water won Best Picture over Get Out.
00:34I think in general, let's honor some horror films, Oscars.
00:38Horror films don't often get love at the Oscars, so it would have been great for Get Out to win Best Picture.
00:43The time I think the Oscars got it wrong is when Amy Adams was not nominated for Arrival.
00:48I mean, she has been nominated six times, so the Academy clearly recognizes her plenty.
00:53The fact that she hasn't won is a whole other thing, but that makes it all the crazier that that's the one time that she did not get nominated.
00:59The time I think the Oscars got it wrong was the 1999 Best Actor Race.
01:04You had Tom Hanks for Saving Private Ryan, Nick Nolte for Affliction, you had Ian McKellen for Gods and Monsters,
01:12you had Ed Norton for American History X, and Roberto freaking Benigni won for Life is Beautiful.
01:19The time I think the Oscars got it wrong was in 2015 when Eddie Redmayne won for The Theory of Everything for Best Actor over Michael Keaton in Birdman.
01:29Michael Keaton should be an Oscar winner.
01:32That movie was so clever and meta and different and, like, left an impact.
01:36I don't remember The Theory of Everything.
01:38I think it was fine, but I think Michael Keaton was robbed.
01:41I think every time that Denzel was nominated and didn't win, the Oscars got it wrong.
01:46There was a wonderful film called The Swan Song starring Mahershala Ali and Naomi Harris, 2021,
01:53and it got no love whatsoever.
01:55The Oscars just ignored it altogether.
01:57Such a miss.
01:58The time that the Oscars got it wrong was not nominating Paris is Burning for Best Documentary Feature,
02:05the seminal documentary on ballroom culture and voguing and gay culture and ballroom and life in New York in the 90s.
02:15I have one other major beef that I can't believe that a Best Picture nomination can happen without the director getting nominated.
02:24How does that make sense?
02:25Just the semantic shift of the word inception, like, it's part of our lexicon now.
02:32Oh, like, that's inception, or it's blank-ception.
02:35Also, give Glenn Close an Oscar already.
02:38People are still talking about that last scene, so I think the Oscars got it wrong there.
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