Tag Archives: Oscar Snubs

Those Oscar Missed: Best Director

Posted on January 28, 2013 by filmscorehunter

CONTRIBUTED BY JAKE THOMPSON A director is vital to the making of a movie. The director is responsible for getting the best possible performances from the actors. The director is responsible for bringing his/her vision to life through his/her collaborations … Continue reading →

Posted in Oscar Talk | Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Aaron Eckhart, Academy Awards, Akira Kurosawa, Albert Brooks, Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Bel Geddes, Barry Lyndon, best director, christian bale, Christopher Nolan, Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Ed Wood, Francis Ford Coppola, Full Metal Jacket, Gangs of New York, gary oldman, George Lucas, Goodfellas, Guillermo Del Toro, Heath Ledger, hugo, Inception, James Stewart, John Ford, Kagemusha, Kim Novak, Lifeboat, martin scorsese, Memento, Oscar Snubs, Pan's Labyrinth, Paul Schrader, Psycho, Raging Bull, Ran, Rear Window, Rebecca, Robert DeNiro, Shintaro Katsu, Spellbound, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Daldry, Tatsuay Nakadai, Taxi Driver, The Age of Innocence, The Aviator, The Dark Knight, The Departed, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Reader, The Searchers, The Shining, Tim Burton, Vertigo | 1 Comment

Those Oscar Missed: Best Supporting Actor

Posted on January 15, 2013 by filmscorehunter

CONTRIBUTED BY JAKE THOMPSON Best Supporting Actor can be a very fun category. It’s always made up of actors whose roles were small but significant. Once in a while the nominating process can be a bit controversial (Anthony Hopkins and … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Supporting Actor, Oscar Talk | Tagged Academy Awards, Albert Brooks, Andy Serkis, Anthony Hopkins, best actor, best supporting actor, Citizen Kane, drive, Films, Forest Whitaker, In the Loop, Kangaroo Court, Legend, Movies, Orson Welles, Oscar Snubs, Peter Capaldi, Peter Jackson, Ricardo Montalban, rise of the planet of the apes, Sean Astin, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, The Last King of Scotland, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Silence of the Lambs, Tim Curry, Tom Cruise, Tombstone, Touch of Evil, Val Kilmer | 1 Comment

Those Oscar Missed: Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Posted on January 4, 2013 by filmscorehunter

CONTRIBUTED BY JAKE THOMPSON Best Documentary (Short Subject) is one of the few Oscar categories that home viewers would probably not be very familiar with. As with the other two short film categories, I was originally not going to include … Continue reading →

Posted in Documentary, Oscar Talk | Tagged 66 Scenes From America, Academy Awards, Alain Resnais, Best Documentary (Short Subject), Bobby James, Day of the Fight, Dock Ellis, Dock Ellis and the LSD No-No, Films, James Blagden, Jorgen Leth, La Soufriere, Movies, Night and Fog, Oscar Snubs, Stanley Kubrick, Walter Cartier, werner herzog | 1 Comment

Those Oscar Missed: Best Foreign Language Film

Posted on January 1, 2013 by filmscorehunter

CONTRIBUTED BY JAKE THOMPSON Best Foreign Language Film has always been a little odd to me. It isn’t the quality of work that gets nominated that worries me, but it’s the politics that can sometimes prevent a certain film from … Continue reading →

Posted in Oscar Talk | Tagged 12, 2046, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Academy Awards, Akira Kurosawa, Amores Perros, Angry Harvest, Beaufort, Best Foreign Language Film, Bibi Andersson, Colonel Redl, Cristian Mungiu, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Das Boot, Days of Being Wild, Divided We Fall, Everybody Famous!, Gomorrah, Gunnar Bjornstrand, In the Mood For Love, Ingmar Bergman, Ingrid Thulin, Jurgen Prochnow, Katyn, King Lear, Lothar-Gunther Buchheim, Maggie Cheung, Man of Iron, max von sydow, Mephisto, Mongol, Mori Motonari, Mother India, Muddy River, Nights of Cabiria, Nine Lives, Oscar Snubs, Pierrot Le Fou The Green Ham, Ran, Tatsuya Nakadai, The Boat Is Full, The Counterfeiters, The Devil Came At Night, The Gates of Paris, The Official Story, The Taste of Others, Three Brothers, Three Men and a Cradle, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Victor Sjostrom, When Father Was Away On Business, Wild Strawberries, Wolfgang Petersen, Won Kar-Wai | 3 Comments

Those Oscar Missed: Best Cinematography

Posted on December 1, 2012 by filmscorehunter

Cinematography is such an important part of a film. In many ways it can define it, used by the director to let us see what he/she wants us to see and not see. There are so many terrific examples of … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Cinematography, Oscar Talk | Tagged A Patch of Blue, A Star Is Born, Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Auntie Mame, Avatar, Barry Ackroyd, Bela Lugosi, best cinematography, Billy Crudup, Black Narcissus, Bound For Glory, Bruno Delbonnel, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Christian Berger, Citizen Kane, Coal Miner's Daughter, Don Burgess, Ed Wood, Ernest Laszlo, Forrest Gump, Funny Face, Geoffrey Unsworth, Ghislain Cloquet, Gigi, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Stradling, Haskell Wexler, Inglourious Basterds, James Crabe, James Wong Howe, John Toll, Joseph Ruttenberg, Kagemusha, King Kong, Kingdom of Heaven, Larry Fong, Legends of the Fall, Leon Shamroy, Logan's Run, Mauro Fiore, Michael Chapman, Nestor Almendros, Network, Oscar Snubs, Owen Roizman, Piotr Sobocinski, Raging Bull, Ralf D. Bode, Ran, Rear Window, Richard H. Kline, Road To Perdition, Robert Burks, robert richardson, Robert Surtess, Roger Deakins, Shoji Ueda, South Pacific, Strangers On A Train, Superman, Takao Saito, Taxi Driver, Tess, The Blue Lagoon, The Formula, The Fugitive, The Hurt Locker, The Old Man and the Sea, The Searchers, The Shawshank Redemption, The White Ribbon, Three Colors: Red, To Catch A Thief, To Kill A Mockingbird, Vertigo, VistaVision, Watchmen, Wyatt Earp | 2 Comments

Those Oscar Missed: Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Posted on November 19, 2012 by filmscorehunter

CONTRIBUTED BY JAKE THOMPSON Best Makeup and Hairstyling can often be a toss-up. A lot of great work has been nominated (and deservedly won). Every now and again there’ll be a nominee that you look at and say, “Really?” as … Continue reading →

Posted in Oscar Talk | Tagged 2010, A Beautiful Mind, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Batman Returns, Beetlejuice, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Bicentennial Man, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Bruce Campbell, Clive Barker, Coming To America, Cyrano De Bergerac, Darkman, Dick Tracy, Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, Evil Dead II, Ghosts of Mississippi, Happy New Year, Harry and the Hendersons, Hoffa, Hook, Il Divo, Jon Stewart, Mask, Moulin Rouge, Movies, Mrs. Doubtfire, Nightbreed, Norbit, Oscar Snubs, Patrick Stewart, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Planet of the Apes, Roommates, Star Trek, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Nemesis, Ted Raimi, The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Young Victoria, Titanic, tom hardy, Watchmen | 2 Comments

Those Oscar Missed: Best Visual Effects

Posted on November 9, 2012 by filmscorehunter

GUEST COLUMN BY JAKE THOMPSON Visual Effects can be a difficult category to predict sometimes. In a given year, the most obvious of choices will deservedly get nominated. But every now and then, one of the nominees will make us … Continue reading →

Posted in Oscar Talk | Tagged Academy Awards, Avatar, best visual effects, Burt Dalton, Cast Away, cinema, Clay Pinney, Dan Kaufman, Dark Crystal, District 9, Douglas Smith, Dragonheart, Films, Gladiator, Habib Zargarpour, Hollow Man, Independence Day, James Straus, Joe Letteri, John Frazier, John Frazier & Walt Conti, Legend, Movies, Oscar Snubs, Paul Kavanagh, Perfect Storm, Peter Muyzers, Phil Tippett, Richard Baneham, Robert Habros, Russell Earl, Scott Squires, Spidr-Man 3, Star Trek - Roger Guyett, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Wars Revenge of the Sith, Stefen Fangmeier, Stephen Rosenbaum, The Frighteners, Those Oscar Forgot, Twister, Volker Engel, Watchmen | 5 Comments

Those Oscar Missed: Best Original Score

Posted on November 6, 2012 by filmscorehunter

GUEST COLUMN BY JAKE THOMPSON I have to admit that it was extremely difficult to pick just five major snubs of all time in the Best Original Score Oscar category (musical/song/adaptation scores are not included here). There were so many … Continue reading →

Posted in Oscar Talk | Tagged Alan Silvestri, Anna and the King of Siam, Basil Poledouris, Bernard Herrmann, Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Original Musical/Comedy Score, best original score, Big Fish, Citizen Kane, Conan the Barbarian, Cutthroat Island, Danny Elfman, David Shire, Edward Scissorhands, First Blood, Good Will Hunting, James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, Joe Hisaishi, John Debney, Men In Black, Milk, Norma Rae, North By Northwest, Obsession, Oscar Snubs, Poltergeist, Princess Mononoke, Return To Oz, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Taxi Driver, The Dark Crystal, The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Mummy Returns, The Passion of the Christ, The Promise, Tim Burton, Total Recall, Trevor Jones, Vertigo | 6 Comments

Tag Archives: Oscar Snubs

Those Oscar Missed: Best Director

Those Oscar Missed: Best Supporting Actor

Those Oscar Missed: Best Documentary (Short Subject)

Those Oscar Missed: Best Foreign Language Film

Those Oscar Missed: Best Cinematography

Those Oscar Missed: Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Those Oscar Missed: Best Visual Effects

Those Oscar Missed: Best Original Score

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