Gwyneth Paltrow won an Oscar in 1998 for Shakespeare in Love
The history of the Oscars is full of examples of supposedly reliable things that didn't come true. will not succeed, and will be counted among the underdogs who drew gasps when their names were read out.
Since the first awards ceremony in 1929, over the decades, there have been many memorable shocks and surprises that have left critics and audiences alike questioning the Academy's decisions.
Not limited to the winners, but including shocking nominees and omissions, we bring you a brief historical look at all of the Oscars' most criminal and cringe-inducing moments. .
Frank Lloyd, winner of the Best Director category for Cavalcade (1932–33)
— Come and take it, Frank! — these were the words spoken by Will Rogers when he opened the envelope the year Frank Capra first won the award for best director for the film “A Woman for a Day.” Capra, by his own admission, was so excited by the nomination that he rose from his seat and headed to the stage. The winner, alas, was Frank Lloyd from Cavalcade. When Capra realized his mistake, he turned tail and began what he called «the longest, saddest, most destructive journey of my life.» I wanted to crawl under the carpet like a pathetic worm. When I fell into the chair, I felt like one. All my friends at the table were crying.»
In the end, it's hard to feel too sorry for him, consider: It Happened One Night won the awards a year later, and he ended up winning three times.
Cavalcade (1932-33) Photo: REX Luise Rainer, winner of Best Actress for The Good Earth (1937).
The German-born stage veteran won the Best Actress award the year before for her relatively small role in the Best Picture winner «The Great Ziegfeld.» “Nobody wins two years in a row,” 1937 best actor nominee Paul Muni told Jack Warner about his chances. Reiner seemed to be of the same opinion, as many expected Greta Garbo to win for Camille.
Rainer decided to forego the ceremony and drove along the coast with her boyfriend Eugene O'Neill. But they were lured back by Louis B. Mayer after he warned that she might win again, and she came to collect the money with an unsightly tan from riding in the sun all day. Reiner became the first back-to-back acting Oscar winner, paving the way for Spencer Tracy, Tom Hanks, Jason Robards and Katharine Hepburn. But she later called the one-two punch «the worst thing» that could have happened to her career — it raised expectations she couldn't live up to.
Louise Rainer, winner for Best Actress in The Good Earth (1937) Photo: Rex Loretta Young, winner for Best Actress in The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
No one imagined that Young, a 30-year-old former child star nominated for a lightweight comedy about country mice, had a chance of upsetting category favorite Rosalind Russell, who had twice previously lost and fought aggressively for the award. O'Neill's hefty adaptation of Mourning Becomes Electra. Russell was so confident in her chances that she even stood up from her seat before the winner was announced. When Fredric March said Young's name, the audience gasped. Savvy Russell at least pulled off a more dignified rescue than Capra, leading the crowd in cheers as if that had been her intention all along.
A Place in the Sun and A Streetcar Named Desire, two evergreen classics of prestige Hollywood drama, made 1951 a great year for American cinema and a particularly tight competition for Best Picture with a shocking spoiler to come. Streetcar won three of the four acting awards, with only Marlon Brando losing out to Humphrey Bogart for his role in The African Queen.
But the unexpected competition of the evening was between glossy, starry, black-and-white tragedy and Technicolor musical fury. An American in Paris, the flagship project of MGM's Arthur Freed division, was expected to span the color department as well as the music and lyrics. But it ultimately tied A Place in the Sun with six Oscars each and moved into Best Picture, with Vincente Minnelli also snatching Best Director from George Stevens. Minnelli accomplished a similar feat by repeating her trip to Paris for the 1958 film Gigi.
Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron in the film An American in Paris Author: Rex The Greatest Show on Earth, Best Picture Winner (1952)
Industry Bible publication Variety said winning High Noon was a «no-brainer,» perhaps without controversy over its anti-McCarthyite politics and the fact that screenwriter Carl Foreman was blacklisted for refusing to cooperate with HUAC. Producer Stanley Kramer wanted him out of the film, but Gary Cooper and Fred Zinnemann intervened.
Cooper would have liked to have chosen the best actor, but Hollywood closed ranks in the two big races and instead went with the most conservative choice imaginable — The Greatest Show on Earth, a retro circus extravaganza directed by Cecil B. DeMille, a noted Republican activist. campaigns. NBC, which televised the ceremony for the first time, was allegedly so surprised that it couldn't find any of the producers in the audience. Really, this award only makes sense as a reward for DeMille's career achievements — and if they had only waited for the weak field of 1956, The Ten Commandments would have been a much better choice.
Joan Crawford, Best Actress in…wait, The Miracle Worker?! (1962)
You can blame Joan Crawford for a lot of things, but being in The Miracle Worker isn't one of them. Instead, she was in «Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?» the same year with Bette Davis, a film whose sisterly feud spread off-screen when Davis, not she, was nominated for an Oscar. Bette was even predicted to win for the first time since Jezebel in 1938, which would have made up for her unfortunate loss to Judy Holliday the year All About Eve ended.
But smart old Joan found a way to attract everyone's attention and opposed Davis's victory in favor of almost all the other candidates. Among them, only Davis was present that evening, and by prior arrangement with second favorite Anne Bancroft, who was busy on the Broadway stage, Joan was hiding backstage when the award was announced and was supposed to read the winner's speech in absentia. Her joy at upstaging Davis and making up for her nomination snub can still be seen on YouTube.
Poor Audrey had the bad taste to oppose Julie Andrews, whose role in My Fair Lady she hijacked when Jack Warner refused to let Julie repeat her stage triumph. He needed a bigger star for this $17 million mega-production, especially with Rex Harrison in the male lead. Enter Hepburn, whose singing voice was unfortunately underwhelming — duly dubbed by ubiquitous backstage savior Marni Nixon, who performed similar duties for Natalie Wood in West Side Story (1961).
The outrage when Andrews lost the role was hysterical. Time magazine printed one of the more restrained reactions: “There is an evil and uncontrollable mad force in the world, and it must be destroyed!” Not only did My Fair Lady sweep the awards, winning eight, including Best Picture, but Andrews ended up winning Best Actress for her rival musical Mary Poppins, and even had the nerve to thank Warner in her acceptance speech. However, to her credit, she was impeccably forgiving of Hepburn's snub. “I think Audrey should have been nominated. I'm very sorry that this is not so.»
Tie for Best Actress (1968)
Katharine Hepburn holds the record for most acting awards—four Best Actress trophies—despite the fact that she was never the favorite to win (in 1933, 1967, 1968 or 1981) and did not attend any of the events. Many were surprised when she, and not Spencer Tracy, took home gold for her not-too-onerous work in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. And just a year later, an even bigger surprise awaited me. Barbra Streisand won the Golden Globe in musical and comedy for her world-conquering debut in Funny Girl and became a favorite.
Hepburn lost the Drama Globe to Joanne Woodward. Therefore, Ingrid Bergman’s statement puzzled everyone: “It’s a draw!” Anthony Harvey took the stage on Hepburn's behalf, accompanied by a slightly confused Streisand, who looked up at her statue and gave the impersonators a favorite catchphrase, saying, «Hello, beautiful!» At least, unlike others, this Hepburn performance was worth the fuss — her Eleanor of Aquitaine is a sour joy. But you have to feel a little sorry for Peter O'Toole, who also came so close to winning and died without winning an Oscar, and Hepburn had four.
Beatrice Strait, Best Supporting Actress, Network (1976)
There is a legend that the role of Paul Gauguin in the film Lust for Life, for which Anthony Quinn received his second Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, took up only eight minutes of screen time, but this is not true: his scenes with Kirk Douglas easily exceed twenty. — minute mark. If you want a really short Oscar-winning performance, you need to look at Judi Dench's Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love (“I feel like with just eight minutes on screen I can only see a little of him,” she said, agreeing) . Or, cut down to just over six minutes, Beatrice Straight, who unexpectedly won the 1976 Best Supporting Actress award for one big scene as William Holden's bitter wife in Network.
It's a memorable confrontation in a very respected film, but perhaps she was helped by the lack of a single favorite among the other nominees — Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver, Jane Alexander in All the President's Men, Piper Laurie. for Carrie and Lee Grant for the film «Voyage of the Damned».
Beatrice Strait with her Oscar statuette in 1976. Photo: AP Richard Dreyfuss, Best Actor winner for The Goodbye Girl (1977)
In many ways, this was Dreyfuss's year — he delivered Spielberg's colossal, multi-nominated hit, Close Encounters of the Third sort of,” so this victory for Neil Simon’s popular comedy at the time ended up in the hands of a film that was very popular at the time. director Herbert Ross doesn't look all that amazing.
But this, making him the youngest Best Actor winner to date, was seen as a major disappointment: all the money was on Richard Burton, who carried Equus to his seventh nomination without scoring a single win. This was poor Burton's last chance and Dreyfus's first chance to make a film and a play, both of which have dated rather uncomfortably. As Burton grimly applauded his competitor for the umpteenth time, it must have occurred to him that Oscar voters didn't really like him all that much, after all.
Goodbye girl. By Alami Steven Spielberg, NOT nominated for Best Director for The Color Purple (1985)
With 11 nominations, The Color Purple had all but one of the ingredients for an epic success in 1985 — it included picture, screenplay, three nominations for acting, cinematography, art direction, costumes, makeup, music and original song. . It didn't win a single one. The consequences of the defeat became clear to everyone when Steven Spielberg's name was not included in the list of best directors.
Given that this was Spielberg's first step away from blockbusters and slacker entertainment into more mature and thoroughbred material, it must have particularly stung him and made him wonder again whether the industry resented his success. He also wasn't nominated for a Jaws Award and has since lost three times in a row. It took Schindler's List to stop the drought.
Whoopi Goldberg in The Color Purple Credits: Rex Geena Davis, Best Supporting Actress winner for «The Accidental Tourist» (1988)
There should be an unwritten rule: when you're nominated twice a year, you win one and lose the other — ask Fay Bainter (1938), Teresa Wright (1942), Barry Fitzgerald (1944), Jessica Lange (1982), Al Pacino (1992), Holly Hunter (1993) and Jamie Foxx (2004). This rule remained in effect until 1988, when Sigourney Weaver was up for Best Actress for Gorillas in the Mist — an award she lost to Jodie Foster over favorite Glenn Close — and Supporting Actress for Working Girl, which looked like the perfect consolation prize (she actually won both Golden Globes).
Voters preferred the eccentric style of near-newcomer Geena Davis in The Accidental Tourist, and Weaver has been waiting to be nominated again ever since. At least she was subsequently joined by good company in the empty-handed double nomination club, namely Emma Thompson (1993), Julianne Moore (2002) and Cate Blanchett (2007).
Marisa Tomei, Best Actress Nominee supporting cast And My Cousin Vinnie's Victory (1992)
Even Tomei's nomination for playing Joe Pesci's saucy fiancée in this soporific legal comedy was a bit of a distant prospect—the Golden Globes didn't pick her, and the general question was «who?» factor surrounding the nod. What a shock it was when Jack Palance read her name instead of Judy Davis (Husbands and Wives), Vanessa Redgrave (Howards End), Miranda Richardson (Damages) or Joan Plowright (Enchanted April).< /p>
For years afterwards there were rather crude rumors that the 73-year-old Palance, confused by the teleprompter, had simply given the wrong name, although the Academy's accounting firm PriceWaterhouse loudly denies that any such error would have gone uncorrected. night. Tomei herself has admitted that her win is still living in something of a «cloud», although her highly respected career since then, with additional nominations for In the Bedroom (2001) and The Wrestler (2008), has helped reduce the fluke factor .< /p>Juliette Binoche, winner for Best Supporting Actress in The English Patient (1996)
Everyone, but everyone, expected the award to go to Lauren Bacall, never before nominated in her storied 50-year career for playing the least likely of roles — a Jewish mother whom even Barbra Streisand finds overbearing — in The Mirror Has Two Faces. . Binoche, of course, was the last person to expect to be called on stage: “I didn’t prepare anything. I thought Lauren would get it, and I think she deserves it,” she said immediately.
It was a textbook case of a more popular film pushing one actor to the forefront: the massive support for The English Patient eclipsed any consideration of Bacall's longevity, and the widely disliked Mirror/Faces took the wind out of the sails of her sentimental campaign.
Juliette Binoche holds the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress backstage at the 69th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles, 1997 Photo: AP Shakespeare in Love beats Saving Private Ryan for Best Picture (1998)
Everything seemed to be predetermined down to the last envelope: Spielberg won for the second time in a decade and indeed received the title of best director. On the other hand, the producers of Saving Private Ryan may have felt a shiver of apprehension when Gwyneth Paltrow beat out the more popular Cate Blanchett for Best Actress.
There was clearly a lot of love for Shakespeare in the room, but cleverly mobilized by then-Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein in one of his first and most famous advertising campaigns. DreamWorks, however, didn't slack off in its promotional efforts: they may even have spent more. And the Love/Ryan confrontation did not happen at the last minute, as is often remembered: throughout the season they fought for the predecessor awards. Splitting the film and director awards was simply a smart way for voters to honor both films. It's a surprise that, when you think about it, wasn't all that special.
Shakespeare in Love Photo: Alamy Marcia Gay Harden, winner for supporting actress in Pollock (2000)
It's interesting how often supporting actress roles produce big surprises: Tomei, Binoche, Davis and Strait (all above) are key examples, as was Anna Paquin in 1993's The Piano, beating out Rosie Perez and Winona Ryder. Meanwhile, Las Vegas bookmakers gave the win to Harden, 41, who has never been nominated before, with odds of 12/1 for his role as Lee Krasner in Ed Harris' Pollock biopic. They undoubtedly arrived at this figure based on Harden's relative obscurity, as well as the fact that the film was the highest-grossing film in its category.
Many thought that Kate Hudson in Almost Famous sewed it up. Compared to all the other examples, this seems like a benign case where voters ignore other factors (say, the temptation to give Hudson a Goldie Hawn-like career boost) and simply reward performance because Harden's fierce, gritty performance is arguably his best. a significant portion of those nominated.
Adrien Brody, winner of the Best Actor category for The Pianist (2002)
It was all about Jack Nicholson, who used his latest comeback in Alexander Payne's About Schmidt or Daniel Day-Lewis as the main redeeming feature of Scorsese's out-of-control giant Gangs of New York. The clashes between Scorsese and Harvey Weinstein on the project were legendary, but the latter had one thing in mind when he saw the project come together: that Day-Lewis would win. Harvey even suggested that his competitors might as well stay home. Adrien Brody was very glad that he didn't.
At 29, he broke Richard Dreyfuss's record as the youngest winner in history, receiving a standing ovation from a genuinely enthusiastic audience, kissing an astonished Halle Berry and giving a long, emotional «faster» speech. resolution» on the war in Afghanistan. “They put a restraining order on me,” he joked on his return to the podium a year later, before reaching for a breath freshener.
Adrien Brody in The Pianist Credits: AP Keisha Castle-Hughes, Best Actress nomination for The Rider on a whale» (2003)< p>It's been a funny old year for the Best Actress award. Only one of the Best Picture nominees even had a lead role by an actress, Lost in Translation, and Scarlett Johansson was not mentioned. Neither Nicole Kidman in Cold Mountain nor Uma Thurman in Kill Bill Vol. 1. This cleared the way for voters to unexpectedly shout out for Samantha Morton in In America and also to correct something else, namely fraud in the strategic category. Whale Rider's American distributor, Newmarket Films, attempted to guarantee it a 13-year warranty. -Old star Keisha Castle-Hughes is nominated.
They insisted that she be in the running for Best Supporting Actress, despite the glaring fact that she is the film's leading lady—a gambit that worked for Tatum O'Neal in Paper Moon (1973) (she even won), and later received a nomination for her role as Hailee Steinfeld. in True Grit (2010). On this occasion, voters rebelled and rightly insisted that she was a leading woman. At the time, she was the youngest nominee in the category, but that honor has since been stolen by nine-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis.
Keisha Castle-Hughes plays Pie in Whale Rider. Photo: Alamy Three 6 Mafia, winner of «Best Original Song» for the film «Hustle and Flow» (2005)
Everyone thought Dolly Parton would get it for her trans-American ditty, Travelin' Through. It was a year of extraordinarily bizarre dance interpretation during the ceremony, with slow exits from burning cars symbolizing Crash, although we were thankfully spared any choreographic notions of gender reassignment surgery.
Host Jon Stewart was already having a great time imagining a humorous feud between legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman, performing selections from the Original Score nominees, and the award-nominated hip-hop trio Three 6 Mafia, «It's Tough Out Here for the Pimp from Hustle &» ; Flow. Then they won, and Stewart's joke-writing team was in full swing. “For those keeping track,” he joked, “Three 6 Mafia one, Martin Scorsese zero.”
Crash beats Brokeback Mountain for Best Picture (2005)
Not everyone was confused when Paul Haggis's patchwork racist pamphlet catapulted Brokeback Mountain into office: having barely attended the Golden Globes, Crash gained momentum in the final weeks of voting. Still, Brokeback's loss that night was a big win for Brokeback, and Best Picture presenter Jack Nicholson summed up the mood of the room (and even the Internet) with raised eyebrows and a backstage «Wow!» >It has gone down in history, if not as the most shocking event of all time, then certainly as the most controversial, with immediate accusations of homophobia and, worse, plain bad taste thrown to the vote. The worst thing that ever happened to Crash was winning the poisoned chalice — seemingly in a matter of days, he became the overall Oscar champion everyone loves to hate.
Bruce Springsteen, NOT nominated for «The Wrestler» from «The Wrestler» (2008)
How did you miss this? Going into nomination day, Springsteen, the previous winner in Philadelphia, looked like a near sure bet for a second Oscar and won a Golden Globe for a stunning, emotional song that feels like the perfect epitaph for the (much-admired) film. . His absence from the shortlist, which this year has been whittled down to three from the usual five, is hard to explain unless you consider that voters are given videos of all the nominated songs, with Springsteen's songs played out in a visually boring context as the credits roll.
< p>His thunder was stolen by the Bollywood sugar rush of Slumdog Millionaire, a double flop here, and Peter Gabriel's tawdry eco-trip Down to Earth from Wall.E (what… credits prettier?). Bad choice, Oscar.
Bruce Springsteen missed out on his second Oscar for The Wrestler in 2008. Photo: Luke McGregor Winner, Best Foreign Film, Departures (2009).
Oscar fans who love to squabble in the Foreign Film category (a niche but fanatical pastime) are given plenty of ammunition each year, thanks to such shocking developments as the Palme d'Or winner's bizarre omission for 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Day» in 2007, which led to a change in the voting rules in this category. But you can never count on them making the final decision very wisely.
There were several excellent contenders this year, including Laurent Cantet's acclaimed educational drama «Class,» Ari Folman's animated essay on the Lebanese war «Waltz with Bashir» and the darkly brilliant Austrian thriller «Revenge.» But the Academy chose the Japanese program «Departures». It could hardly look more like a self-parody of a winning foreign film — it's about a down-on-his-luck cellist who begins a second career in ritual embalming. On the surface, it was mediocre, sentimental and tragically undeserved.
Best Picture Nomination for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
Eight looked like the magic number in the on-screen layout of Best Picture slots that day, so when Stephen Daldry's widely derided drama 9/11 was announced at the end of the broadcast as the ninth nominee, everyone practically rose from their seats. places to go home. No critics groups or other awards organizations paid attention to this. Twitter exploded and it was quickly hailed as probably the worst film ever to receive a Best Picture nomination, at least in recent history: even The Blind Side has a 66 percent fresh rating on the aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, up from 46 percent. for this.
In doing so, Stephen Daldry extended his unique track record as an Oscar nominee: All four of his films to date, up until the disastrous Trash, have won either Best Picture or Best Director (both in two cases). and other). With another nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Max von Sydow, which was another surprise, Extremely Loud could hardly have been less of a threat to win. But breaking into the race at all was a real coup.
Best Picture Nomination for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011) Photo: Rex Jacki Weaver, Best Supporting Actress Nominee for Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
To say that this nomination came out of nowhere isn't entirely true: it essentially came from Harvey Weinstein and his legendary gift for finding an awards magnet and using it to collect every nomination within his reach (see also: Chocolate). However, few pundits have paid attention to Weaver this year, two years after her well-deserved nomination for Animal Kingdom (2010). The actress herself did not expect this at all. It was a question of “did we hear that?” a moment without which nomination day would be truly boring.
It's just a shame that there wasn't anything particularly exceptional about the role or Weaver's performance as a doting Philadelphia mom—a nod to, say, Ann Dowd in Conformity or Nicole Kidman in The Paperboy would have been a little less surprising and much more deserved. Silver Linings Playbook thus became the first film since 1981's Red to receive a full number of acting nominations in each category, a feat director David O. Russell managed to repeat the following year with American Hustle.
Ben Affleck, NOT nominated for Best Director for Argo (2012)Poor Bruce Beresford wasn't nominated in 1989 for Driving Miss Daisy, a film with a driver but seemingly without a director, which ended up winning Best Picture. This once happened with “Wings” (1927/8) and “Grand Hotel” (1931/2). Did Argo's Best Picture odds really improve when Affleck wasn't nominated? The Poor Ben factor gave his film an underdog quality, which could only help: voters don't always like being forced to support a film that's way ahead.
He wasn't the only one. one of which came in a particularly tough year for the category, with both Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) and Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained) widely predicted, but they didn't. The problem with a potential ten-person Best Picture list is that up to half of them could end up being these orphaned nominees: There's only room for five directors, and a surprise like Ben Zeitlin (Beast of the South) ), could be ruinous for Affleck. . However, for Argo fans it happened just at night.
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