The worst part of Crash is when the racist cop (Matt Dillon) who initially stops and frisks the Black married couple (Thandiwe Newton, Terrence Howard) and finger r*pes the wife, BUT gets a redemption plot at the end after saving the same woman in a car crash 🤮 Like seriously… wtf
I assume they are arguing the worst Best Picture, not the worst Best Picture snub assuming you think Shakespeare in Love is a better film than Crash. Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction or The Shawshank Redemption is pretty bad and I like Forrest Gump.
Well, to be fair, a lot of social issues were touched upon using "ham fisted" methods at the time Crash came out. Or at least, most popular media did. They all bashed us over the head with a message (like Crash) rather than give us thought provoking, nuanced stories (like, say, Do the Right Thing.)
No matter who wins , the voters often have a stake in further ticket sales . “Best” has little to do with it , its either : needy for ticket sales , agenda, greed , personal favorite of someone with “fringe taste”
Vertigo and 2001: A Space Odyssey weren't even nominated for best picture but they are consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made. This just goes to show that we dont remember films that *win* awards. We remember films that *deserve* awards.
I was glad that silence of the lambs winned by huge at its year as a compensation for call the snub Hitchcock, the master of thriller, got from the Academy
A far more controversial choice would have been to give the acadamy award to Cronenberg's Crash in its time. Now that would have been worth experiencing.
'Saving Private Ryan' (a movie that's been added to the National Film Registry & is widely regarded as the greatest war movie ever) losing Best Picture to 'Shakespeare In Love' will always be the Oscar's biggest embarrassment.
Problem was the thin red line also came out that year and that split the votes for saving private Ryan. Which meant Shakespeare in love had a higher proportion of votes when separating the 2 war movies
2nd time it has happened to Spike Lee too. Do the Right Thing lost to Driving Miss Daisy, Do the Right Thing was not even nominated. It pissed me off because during that Oscar season Spike held his tongue with Green Book too. He did not want to comment on that movie because after he did with Driving Miss Daisy, he and performances in his movies were ignored by the Academy on so many great projects (Malcolm X, Jungle Fever, 4 Little Girls, and Inside Man).
BlackKklansman 100% didn't even deserve to be nominated. Spike Lee should have won for Do The Right Thing and that's it, everything he's done since that has paled in comparison.
"Many academy members [...] admitted they didn't watch 'Brokeback' before voting." This alone completely invalidates the awards in their entirety. Having watched all the candidates before the vote should be a mandatory prerequisite of any valid vote. Without such a rule being enforced, the vote means absolutely nothing.
Not everyone back then wanted to watch degenerate smut, but that's no longer the case in 2024. Now HollyWEIRD will vote a movie as best picture precisely because it is about a black, transgender muslim woman in a wheelchair.
A few years ago, the movie "Never Rarely Sometimes Always" lost any chance to be in the Oscars because some members wouldn't watch a film about abortion. Like the Grammys, they're an absolutely joke of an award. They're a celebration of the most vanilla, saccharine and demagogue art ever.
The Oscars aren't perfect, but while I acknowledge the points made by this video, they have also gotten it right many times. The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is important as it highlights original films in Hollywood and internationally.
It's impractical but I think there should be awards ceromonies taking place ten years after a certain year so it can be really measured how a film has impacted pop culture and influenced filmmaking.
Is it strange that, without seeing what film this was in the thumbnail, without even having seen the film itself, I knew what movie you’d be talking about prior to clicking?
I didn't think it should be "Crash" because there are other films in other years either in my youth or before that which were worse choices. Is "Crash" over "Brokeback Mountain" really a worse choice than "My Fair Lady" over "Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Came To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb)" or "Oliver!" over "2001: A Space Odyssey"?
2005 was one of those years where none of the Best Picture nominated films was worth a tinker's damn. Why not Crash, then? At least it caused the Academy to finally give Matt Dillon some love after 20 years of ignoring him.
@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking Some good movies have anti climaxes. Capote is one of them. People wanted one thing but they got another. It's like when The Grey came out and everyone thought it would be Taken with wolves. Then it turned out to be a lot more quieter and quaint. Didn't stop audiences in theaters turning against it
I only remember being disappointed with Munich and why even bother with capote..the kind of film critics say they love so as note to be invalidated by the snooty intellectual crowd.
And I ESPECIALLY agree about animated films getting snubbed! They didn't NEED a 'Best Animated Picture' category, they just needed to acknowledge the power of animation! X (
The academy never votes for superhero movies for the best picture. A lot of film snobs there who look their nose down on them. The only film of that genre to even get nominated was black panther a few years ago.
@@josepha.r5839that’s certainly not a good enough reason for broke back to win over crash.. both movies dealt with equally important subject matters what we trying to say here?
I actually really liked Crash when it came out but I was very young and had no idea what would be considered an "oscar" movie. One day I'll rewatch it and reassess.
I tried to rewatch Crash as an adult and wow is it ham-fisted with its message. I couldn't make it through the first 30 minutes. It was one of those movies that felt deep when I was 16.
Yes, I was hoping that this would be the infamous Best Picture Disaster. Crash has mostly faded out of most people's memories, while Brokeback Mountain is still fondly remembered today.
I don't know what the decision-makers were thinking about having Crash win Best Pictures. Yes, the themes that the movie explores themes like racism and racial profiling(both issues that are very important to address), but there are other movies that explored those themes better. Brokeback Mountain was basically about discovering your sexuality even if it meant being isolated from your community and hurting the people you care about. Even 19 years after its release and 16 years after Heath Ledger’s death, people still remember both of those things and I pray we don't see a remake because Heath was one of those actors like River Phoenix who drew in you through their aura.
Honestly for me it's the opposite. 'Crash' left an indelible impression on me, and still hits me hard to this day (no pun intended). I've watched it probably three times now and it grips me every time the woman has to be pulled out from under the car by the same guy who abused her. So many of the scenes and characters stick in my mind. 'Brokeback Mountain' on the other hand, for me, I watched it when it came out and the only thing I remember about it now is that the acting was great and it was a western romance with the twist (for the time it was a twist) that the romance was homosexual. All these years later and literally nothing else about the movie remains in my memory, which I suppose is why I've never been inspired to give it a second viewing... It really surprises me that 'Crash' seems to have gone out of fashion.
Brokeback Mountain is the best go-to to quash any argument that viewers are trans/homo-phobic towards modern movies. No, we are not. All we want is a good story, not a "check-all-the-social-boxes" story. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is another great example of telling a story of characters who are gay or trans, but the viewer doesn`t care, cause the story is so amazing. Gay, straight, trans, all female, whatever...I don`t care!! Just tell me a good story rather than force feeding me "the message".
Yes but at the time, you can't claim that the viewer was ok with it.. western society has progressed a ton over the last decade and new generation of adults are far more accepting. To the extent that when some TV show reveals a character as gay, it barely registers as a big deal. But at the time, there was a ton of resistance and shock whenever a story introduced an LGBTQ character.
‘The Dark Knight’ not being nominated for best picture was criminal. Since then I lost interest in movie awards. Also, Nolan not being nominated for best director for Inception was unforgivable.
I remember 10 or so years ago I watched Crash in order to help a friend to complete a homework, without the knowledge that it was an Academy Award Winning movie. I couldn't believe what I saw, I'm not American but the way the movie handled the topic of racism and prejudice seemed so exaggerated, cartoony not very natural, etc. I couldn't believe it won Best Picture
I really noticed that this year, I definitely liked Oppenheimer a lot when I watched it in theaters but I was kinda taken aback by how much I loved the holdovers or poor things and it seemed like everyone was in a consensus that Oppenheimer was just “the best movie” without even acknowledging some of the other awesome different films this past year. It’s weird that people decide which piece of art is better like it’s an objective thing.
I was 14 when crash came out and even then I found it basic. I hated it, I remember getting progressively angrier further into the movie, bc I felt like I was being treated like an idiot. On the other hand, I remember watching brokeback mountain in the theater with my mother. It was uncomfortable and weird, not only bc I had to watch a gay sex scene with my mom at age 14 (😂) but also because I had never watched homosexuality being portrayed so honestly and unapologeticaly in film before. I didn't know how to feel but I knew I was watching something special, thought-provoking, and most importantly; Good. It's an experience I'll never forget. That's what an oscar-winning film should do to you.
I stopped watching the awards altogether when Zootopia won the 2017 Best Animated over Kubo and the Two Strings. It was clear the voters had not watched both films. One was a largely forgettable story that kinda botched it's own message, the other pushed the boundaries of it's own medium.
“Every year”? What about “Spirited Away” and “The Boy and the Heron”, two masterpieces by Hayao Miyazaki that deserved their wins? I also think “Shrek”, Finding Nemo”, “The Incredibles”, “Ratatouille”, “WALL-E”, “Toy Story 3”, “Rango”, “Inside Out”, “Zootopia”, “Coco”, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”, “Toy Story 4”, “Soul”, and “Encanto” all deserved their wins in their respective years (even “Luca” was my personal favorite in 2021).
I saw "Brokeback Mountain" for the first time last year (2023) and it was almost unbearably heartbreaking!! It was heartbreaking in 2005, and it will remain heartbreaking in 2065 and beyond. "Brokeback Mountain" will stand the test of time. I've never seen "Crash" and have no desire to.
Difficult to see, indeed. Still haven't seen it other than when in theater. Too painful for me. Too many I knew who were, as young men, in the same closed world of fear.
"Driving Miss Daisy" beat out "Born on the 4th of July", "Field of Dreams", and "Dead Poet's Society" - all of which were much better. That gets my pick for worst best picture. At least with "Crash", it was much better than Miss Daisy.
The soundtrack to Brokeback Mountain was also hauntingly beautiful. Important and powerful movie. Also, the whole "Oscars so White" is a disgustingly racist and segregationist notion. Reversing racism doesn't undo the past. Is it inconceivable that some years, a black actor doesn't deserve to win an acting award? Judge people on talent, not the color of their skin. It's that simple.
It was so in the past. I saw Raisin in the Sun and The Defiant Ones in the 50s when a young teenager and was so taken in the raw courage of the films .. esp. Defiant Ones. Still too much for so many whites to see. I went to an elementary school that was 70% black, rest Hispanic except for a few 'white' kids like me so watching the films and vaguely reading the reaction was a bit puzzling for me.
I mean 1948 was the year of the Heiress so Raising had no chance with that actress over OdH. Also that was the year of All the King's Men. Yeah that movie was way more technical. Very detailed. And that factors in wins as well.@@josepha.r5839
My mom accidentally took me to see brokeback mountain in theater when I was 9. She kept my eyes covered almost the whole movie and was laughing about it for a long time.
Oh man, that movie. Hamfisted doesn't even begin to describe it. The actors could have just as well pulled out a white board, turned straight to the camera and started a two hour long lecture. The writers decided to just abandon any kind of subtlety all together. I don't know if it was an "artistic" choice or a prank or both...
Brokeback Mountain was a genuine and beautiful film. Ledger and Gyllenhaal both giving absolute banger performances was icing on the cake. Crash was condescending and preachy. And with its boatload of talent, underwhelming.
Its kinda funny that I have never watched Brokeback Mountain but I know about the movie, the premise, the actors, and the positive reviews. As I was watching the video and he mentioned Crash I had no recollection of watching a movie named that. Once I saw Sandra Bullock, Ludacris and Michael Pena I realized that I did watch this movie and have forgotten everything about it since I watched it 2 years ago. Very much a forgettable film.
The fact stays, most people know of or watched Brokeback Mountain, it gave one of the best performances for the actors in it, and not a lot of pf people even know about Crush🤷 especially beyond US
I get upset every time I remember animation isn't given respect by the mainstream media. Animation is one of the greatest forms of art and entertainment to ever exist. It's such a shame that it's looked down upon. Animation isn't just for kids. And animation is just as impressive (if not more impressive) than anything done in live action or CGI
The green book is genuinely trash lol, its the epitome of everything wrong with the white savior trope. Im sick of seeing real life stories about minorities being adapted into films where the focus is shifted onto white characters, and the minorities are simply there to help with their character development lol Edit: nvm i see what youre saying. I thought you were saying the greenbook was snubbed before i finished the video, i didnt even know that won best picture holy shit
Let me break it down for you Barney style. Voters receive screeners in the mail and vote according to their preference. “Giving” it to saving private Ryan would go against the whole individual vote.
In 1981 the best picture winner was "ordinary people" not "elephant man" who remembers "ordinary people" even by name (no I'm not talking about john legend's song) ? Btw, redford also won best director award over lynch That the way it goes. I'm fed up with people always saying crash didn't deserve its victory, shakespare in love didn't deserve its victory and so on... dont blame the player, blame the game. And let's think a little bit, what is more important, winning an award or earning money (people going to see a movie in theatre) when you win a award it's a good ad to attract studios & others inverstors in your future projects. When you make money in theatre it already is.
I was just a young teen then but I saw both films that year and loved them both. I have to say that Ordinary People was one of my favorites of all time. Saw it a few years ago and and it was just as good as I remembered it.
I also loved Ordinary People, and was so moved by the acting, especially, the young fellow, played by Timothy Hutton. I still have a copy of this great movie, but definitely a tear jerker. I thought Redford's direction was very good. I also saw Elephant Man, another powerful film, but much later, and didn't know it had been released at the same time as OP.
Timothy Hutton (Best Supporting Actor), Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, yes, I remember "Ordinary People." "Norma Rae" was an excellent film that year also.
My Dad (He worked in a movie store) once said when I asked him about if Shakespeare in Love (Saw it referenced in a show, never watched it) deserved an Oscar, he said, “No, Saving Private Ryan deserved it… [Skip some dialogue] Crash didn’t deserve its Oscar”
Slumdog Millionaire is infinitely worse but no one ever mentions that. Crash is a good movie, everyone just hates it because they think they're supposed to
Agreed. Crash is a very good film and it’s not a crime it won. I’ve seen more undeserved wins than that one. As for the argument that it’s not in the public consciousness, that’s something unfair to hold against any film. Like who can make that call anyway?
@@reasonabledoubt6908 I remember parts of that movie, mostly because I was sort of forced to watch it (long-ish story that can boiled down to an ex-husband who had a tendency to not ask if I wanted to go to something for which he had already bought tickets).
I think its lets politically charged than people make it out to be. The weighted way that the Oscar votes are tallied will always push for a “safe bet” or a “strong #2” over the more striking, controversial, or groundbreaking films. If even 5% of the voters decide that Broke Back Mountain is too controversial it’s enough to make it lose.
Great video. I am a huge Star Trek fan and at age 70 have seen enough episodes to say so. I have always loved the dynamic of Kirk, Spock and Bones. Never before have I seen a version where without Spock, more Leonard Nimoy, there is no Star Trek. Yes of course Rodenberry and Lucy made it possible, Nimoy with Shatner made it great. Mr Nimoy once said Spock is a now a part of our culture, but if occasionally we could just think of Leonard, that would be nice. As a possible nerd, I certainly do. Thanks for a trip down memory lane.
There's "Slumdog Millionaire".....even Indians don't like it...except the song. And there was "Reader, Frost/Nixon, Milk and Benjamin Button for competition
Forrest Gump was an instant classic, Pulp Fiction a cult classic. Both are unforgettable and very well crafted films, but I'd say that FG pushed all the right buttons thematically and emotionally speaking, the way Forest is so easy to relate to, etc, a perfect Oscar pick without being Oscar-Bait. Films like Pulp Fiction don't need Oscars.
The takeaway discussed at the end is apt. The Oscars may not actually be awarded to the most deserving. But it gives a platform to movies that would otherwise only be seen by selective audiences.
Inglourious Basterds losing to The Hurt Locker also deserves a mention. I remember Kathryn Bigelow's movie got eviscerated by true military, who said that the scenario shown in that movie was plain implausible, particularly the way Jeremy Renner's character was written.
@@fabianhebestreit3240significantly more realistic and plausible than hurt locker sadly. We watched that when I was in the usmc and the eod guys were absolutely shitting on it.
Although I do agree with your analysis, that was 2006. Race trumped sexuality at that time, whereas now I'd argue sexuality largely trumps race. But let's be honest here, this was not as bad as Shakespeare In Love beating out Saving Private Ryan.
Green Book was the better movie. I'm a huge fan of Alfonso Cuaron but for the category of best picture the right movie won. He won best director and best foreign film for Roma which was the more correct choice anyway.
A lot of these best picture winners are movies I only watched just once or twice. My cinephile heart will always go back to those films I rewatch over and over again and never grow tired of. ❤
Fact is that ultimately the choice is arbitrary. The voters don't select from every film released that year. They select from a short list submitted by the studios. The studios in turn don't necessarily pick the best film they've produced. They may select something they think has a chance of winning or based on some internal agenda. They also take steps to influence the judging. But even without such the final voting is subjective. Everyone has their own opinion about what would be the best film in any particular year and many times it will be something that was not even nominated.
You guys we have to remember not to look at this through a modern-day lens. We were just beginning, as a culture, to accept the notion of homosexuality in media. However, the issues of race had been coming to a head for a long time, and the movie crash, as simplistic and hackneyed as it may seem in 2024, was a breath of fresh air in regards to those topics.
A Silent Voice was snubbed so hard for best animated film and I will never get over it. It wasn't even nominated! And it was really good and popular! It's literally just because they think animation is for kids and basically ignore foriegn animation altogether.
The other Crash should’ve won an Oscar. The Cronenberg one starring James Spader about people who have a fetish and get off from violent car crashes. It took me so long to even find the movie on DVD anywhere because every store that listed ‘crash’ as in stock only ever had this one and not the cronenberg one.
What I can say is this last night Godzilla Minus One winning the Oscar for best VFX (but we all know it’s best director as well) was the best choice going forward in the industry
Nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 33 consecutive years, 1981 to 2013, every Best Picture winner had also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar, and about two thirds of the Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing. _Brokeback Mountain_ was not nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, but _Crash_ was nominated.
Shawshank couldn't get arrested when it was released. It became the most popular movie rental at blockbuster and of course cable TV took advantage of it.
I don’t think so. I wanted Shawshank to win, but Forest was a good film too. You can’t know what film will have a more lasting effect on the culture. That’s unfair.
Cause Hollywood love stories sbout simplified racism. Makes them feel better about racism and the system that allows it. That's why people's love the help and green book too
Completely agree that Crash is the worst Best Picture winner in history (or at least in the last 30 years). Though Saving Private Ryan deserved to win, Shakespeare in Love was actually a good movie. But you made an error in saying that Driving Miss Daisy beat Do The Right Thing because Do The Right Thing wasn't even nominated for Best Picture (which is insane). Great video!
1952: The Greatest Show On Earth over High Noon and The Quiet Man. And the most memorable film of that year, Singin' In The Rain, wasn't even nominated. 1956: Around The World In 80 Days over Giant, The King & I, and The Ten Commandments. And the actual best movie that year, The Searchers, was even nominated. 1973: The Sting, a fun little caper film, won over The Exorcist, one of the greatest horror movies of all time. 1981: Chariots Of Fire, a forgettable Olympic racing pic more remembered for its score than anything in the film, won over Raiders Of The Lost Ark. 1982: Gandhi, an overblown biopic , won over The Verdict, Tootsie and freaking ET!!!! 1989: Driving Miss Daisy won over Field Of Dreams and Dead Poets Society while Do The Right Thing or Glory weren't nominated. 1990: Dances With Wolves won over Goodfellas. Seriously. 1998: Shakespeare In Love wins over Saving Private Ryan 🤦🤦🤦🤦 I could go on. The point is, there were some just as bad if not worse in Oscar history. Saying this was the absolute worst is hyperbole....
Samuel Jackson wasn’t stunned Green Book won, he was confused because he saw the names of 3 producers before the name of the actual winner.
Yeah thats what it seemed like
…and when the Green Book team went on stage to accept their award, they were literally all old white men 💀
The worst part of Crash is when the racist cop (Matt Dillon) who initially stops and frisks the Black married couple (Thandiwe Newton, Terrence Howard) and finger r*pes the wife, BUT gets a redemption plot at the end after saving the same woman in a car crash 🤮 Like seriously… wtf
@@binaryvoid0101I guess it's worth pointing out that the main writer wrote the movie about his own dad
@@binaryvoid0101 Usually old Jewish men? And racist comments? That Muslims were ... on 9/11. Deniers?
Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan is much worse.
I did not know that.. and I was glad 😮 thats a big miss.
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Oof that hurts to read
So does that mean its a bad film though?
I assume they are arguing the worst Best Picture, not the worst Best Picture snub assuming you think Shakespeare in Love is a better film than Crash. Forrest Gump over Pulp Fiction or The Shawshank Redemption is pretty bad and I like Forrest Gump.
Crash is the kind of movie you think is crazy deep when you’re 12
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You look 12
Well, to be fair, a lot of social issues were touched upon using "ham fisted" methods at the time Crash came out. Or at least, most popular media did. They all bashed us over the head with a message (like Crash) rather than give us thought provoking, nuanced stories (like, say, Do the Right Thing.)
nobody want to watch gays shagging for 2 hours
No matter who wins , the voters often have a stake in further ticket sales . “Best” has little to do with it , its either : needy for ticket sales , agenda, greed , personal favorite of someone with “fringe taste”
Vertigo and 2001: A Space Odyssey weren't even nominated for best picture but they are consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made. This just goes to show that we dont remember films that *win* awards. We remember films that *deserve* awards.
Give me Once Upon A Time In The West over 2001 any day.
Good point!
Vertigo ... makes me dizzy jus thinkin' about it!
I was glad that silence of the lambs winned by huge at its year as a compensation for call the snub Hitchcock, the master of thriller, got from the Academy
@@stevemcnary7963I understand preference over 2001, but 2001 is objectively one of the most influential movies ever made.
To reaffirm the point of the video - this is the first time I'm learning about 'crash'.
Same.
Every year like clockwork someone makes a video like this explaining Crash winning best picture is the greatest tragedy in the history of mankind.
Yh, me too
You didnt miss anything.
A far more controversial choice would have been to give the acadamy award to Cronenberg's Crash in its time. Now that would have been worth experiencing.
'Saving Private Ryan' (a movie that's been added to the National Film Registry & is widely regarded as the greatest war movie ever) losing Best Picture to 'Shakespeare In Love' will always be the Oscar's biggest embarrassment.
Problem was the thin red line also came out that year and that split the votes for saving private Ryan. Which meant Shakespeare in love had a higher proportion of votes when separating the 2 war movies
No way Tom Hanks vs Hitler is the best war movie ever lol it's pure cia slop
I hope you are joking. If you consider this action filled trash "the greatest war movie ever", you might wanna watch less holywood in your free time.
@@joseanibalsantacruzamanzo2202 run along, little troll (and your sockpuppets)
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or an actual sincere comment. Tom hanks??? Have you ever watched Apocalypse Now??
In the Green Book's Oscar year (2019), it was expected that Roma would win, not BlackKKKlansman.
2nd time it has happened to Spike Lee too. Do the Right Thing lost to Driving Miss Daisy, Do the Right Thing was not even nominated. It pissed me off because during that Oscar season Spike held his tongue with Green Book too. He did not want to comment on that movie because after he did with Driving Miss Daisy, he and performances in his movies were ignored by the Academy on so many great projects (Malcolm X, Jungle Fever, 4 Little Girls, and Inside Man).
Nah greenbook was fun
Why? Cause it's black and white? They didn't fall for the bait
Spike Lee just needs to make a great Oscar movie and stop relying on political history to try to boost his movie into contention.
BlackKklansman 100% didn't even deserve to be nominated. Spike Lee should have won for Do The Right Thing and that's it, everything he's done since that has paled in comparison.
The Oscars are too worried about people reaction to the winners and not enough about films
I don't think its that anyone.
The thing is they can't satisfy everyone and art is subjective
@@jeffersonhassan4558 unfortunately no one will listen to you bcs people too blind on hating each others opinion
"Many academy members [...] admitted they didn't watch 'Brokeback' before voting."
This alone completely invalidates the awards in their entirety. Having watched all the candidates before the vote should be a mandatory prerequisite of any valid vote. Without such a rule being enforced, the vote means absolutely nothing.
Not everyone back then wanted to watch degenerate smut, but that's no longer the case in 2024. Now HollyWEIRD will vote a movie as best picture precisely because it is about a black, transgender muslim woman in a wheelchair.
Until recently in some categories you couldn’t vote unless you went a screening. The three Shorts categories from memory
Problem is .. how do you enforce that? One big movie person said he gave the ballot to his teenage kids who did the voting.
That's nuts
A few years ago, the movie "Never Rarely Sometimes Always" lost any chance to be in the Oscars because some members wouldn't watch a film about abortion. Like the Grammys, they're an absolutely joke of an award. They're a celebration of the most vanilla, saccharine and demagogue art ever.
Jack's reaction in the beginning is pure gold!
The Academy Awards in general are WAY too overhyped.
They exist practically just to make people disagree with them.
No this comment does
@@blackguyofthesouth2161 no your comment does
The Oscars aren't perfect, but while I acknowledge the points made by this video, they have also gotten it right many times. The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is important as it highlights original films in Hollywood and internationally.
Crash is the reason the phrase "Oscar bait" came into use.
It's impractical but I think there should be awards ceromonies taking place ten years after a certain year so it can be really measured how a film has impacted pop culture and influenced filmmaking.
I like the way you think
Love this idea!
That would make a good feature on a TH-cam channel
Yes, bcs it took 10 years for ppl to realize Interstellar is actually masterpiece
@@BFG-hv2ml Interstellar is complete and utter nonsense!
“How Green is My Valley” over “Citizen Kane”. Like, do I really need to explain?
Roddy McDowall, always screwed out of his deserved Oscars. :(
You do!! Because no one has heard about those movies😅😅
@@salmanALI-to3qh You never heard of Citizen Kane? Have you been living under a rock for the past 80ish years?
Never heard about these movies
Btw I'm 21
@salmanALI-to3qh this is truly a Citizen kane of bad comments
Is it strange that, without seeing what film this was in the thumbnail, without even having seen the film itself, I knew what movie you’d be talking about prior to clicking?
There's a whole lot of complaining about Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan, Dances with Wolves over Goodfellas too.
1951 Best Picture "Greatest Show on Earth" over "High Noon"
Those are from 1952, but I totally agree.
1952, but yeah. In fact, out of all of the nominations “Greatest Show” deserved it the 5th most.
How did that movie win? We don’t know. It also got nominated over the much better musical and feel good movie, Singin in the Rain.
"Greatest Show on Earth" was one of the weakest Best Picture winners of all time. Still better than Crash, though.
@@Lexivor It also has one of the lowest scores on Rotten Tomatoes for a Best Picture winner. What in God’s name were people smoking back in 1952?
Saw the title of this video and was like "gotta be Crash"
That thing was a tv movie at best.
Same
I didn't think it should be "Crash" because there are other films in other years either in my youth or before that which were worse choices. Is "Crash" over "Brokeback Mountain" really a worse choice than "My Fair Lady" over "Dr. Strangelove (or: How I Came To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb)" or "Oliver!" over "2001: A Space Odyssey"?
2005 was one of those years where none of the Best Picture nominated films was worth a tinker's damn. Why not Crash, then?
At least it caused the Academy to finally give Matt Dillon some love after 20 years of ignoring him.
ehh, definitely not. Crash was an awesome movie and I highly recommend you see it.
People talk about Brokeback Mountain but why does NO ONE talk about Munich or Capote? Those two movies should have voters salivating.
Capote...I was so hyped. 3/4 into it... _Well, is anything going to happen? No? No? No!!!! Damnit. I want my money back._
@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking Some good movies have anti climaxes. Capote is one of them. People wanted one thing but they got another. It's like when The Grey came out and everyone thought it would be Taken with wolves. Then it turned out to be a lot more quieter and quaint. Didn't stop audiences in theaters turning against it
@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking Phillip Seymore Hoffman did win best actor
I actually liked capote better than brokeback crash Munich and goodnight and good luck. I am a rarity loved Capote.
I only remember being disappointed with Munich and why even bother with capote..the kind of film critics say they love so as note to be invalidated by the snooty intellectual crowd.
And I ESPECIALLY agree about animated films getting snubbed! They didn't NEED a 'Best Animated Picture' category, they just needed to acknowledge the power of animation! X (
I think two of the biggest Oscar snubs are these: Liam Nelson in Schindler's List and The Dark Knight not at least being nominated for Best Picture.
The academy never votes for superhero movies for the best picture. A lot of film snobs there who look their nose down on them. The only film of that genre to even get nominated was black panther a few years ago.
The Dark Knight was awful.
The Dark Knight is the reason why there are now 10 nominations for Best Picture...
@@theboxingboy7422 Maybe it's because most of the 'superhero' movies are pretty lame.
The same year as Dark Knight, The Wrestler was also snubbed.
Shakespeare in love?
Exactly, this was a much better example for this video than Crash.
@@fthooper14so real. Shakespeare in Love over Saving Private Ryan and The Matrix is absurd.
@@Ez-Boi23 Life is Beautiful, too - if you haven't seen that movie, it's incredible and worth a watch
@@weston407 I’ll watch it! I’ve been wanting to!
@@Ez-Boi23 it’s amazing - so many emotions packed into one movie - you’ll love it - make sure to watch the original Italian language version
I haven’t forgotten Crash. It was highly impact for me growing up.
Same for me as a gay man in his 40s watching Brokeback Mountain. I felt cheated.
@@josepha.r5839that’s certainly not a good enough reason for broke back to win over crash.. both movies dealt with equally important subject matters what we trying to say here?
@@mooney6889 I thought I was clear.
I'm not surprised you mention Crash.
I feel like script was made for a play, but somehow became a movie.
I have it on dvd and bluray.
Agreed, listening to some of the dialogue I couldn't help think "man, people don't really talk like that. This feels written."
What's a dvd?
Jack Nicholason's reaction says it all. 😂
I think the real reason for the upset was it’s an ensamble cast (friends vote) and an LA movie
I actually really liked Crash when it came out but I was very young and had no idea what would be considered an "oscar" movie. One day I'll rewatch it and reassess.
I tried to rewatch Crash as an adult and wow is it ham-fisted with its message. I couldn't make it through the first 30 minutes. It was one of those movies that felt deep when I was 16.
You sound like you're still 16.
How did I know this was gonna be about Crash before even clicking on the video
Same
Because they do it every year.
It’s the cliche example. I’m not a film buff, but I’ve heard about crash over and over from TH-camrs in the last decade.
It's main cultural impact is that it didn't deserve to win Best Picture
Yes, I was hoping that this would be the infamous Best Picture Disaster. Crash has mostly faded out of most people's memories, while Brokeback Mountain is still fondly remembered today.
I don't know what the decision-makers were thinking about having Crash win Best Pictures. Yes, the themes that the movie explores themes like racism and racial profiling(both issues that are very important to address), but there are other movies that explored those themes better. Brokeback Mountain was basically about discovering your sexuality even if it meant being isolated from your community and hurting the people you care about. Even 19 years after its release and 16 years after Heath Ledger’s death, people still remember both of those things and I pray we don't see a remake because Heath was one of those actors like River Phoenix who drew in you through their aura.
I mean Munich or Capote were the next best films, not Brokeback Mountain
Fondly remembered by whom? It had less cultural permanence than Avatar.
Honestly for me it's the opposite. 'Crash' left an indelible impression on me, and still hits me hard to this day (no pun intended). I've watched it probably three times now and it grips me every time the woman has to be pulled out from under the car by the same guy who abused her. So many of the scenes and characters stick in my mind. 'Brokeback Mountain' on the other hand, for me, I watched it when it came out and the only thing I remember about it now is that the acting was great and it was a western romance with the twist (for the time it was a twist) that the romance was homosexual. All these years later and literally nothing else about the movie remains in my memory, which I suppose is why I've never been inspired to give it a second viewing... It really surprises me that 'Crash' seems to have gone out of fashion.
@@gabrielseanwallace3979i think art is subjective,I connected much more with brokeback mountain than crash despite being a black man in America
What about the ultimate snub, Plan 9 from Outer Space!
lmao
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Right up there with Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and The Terror of Tiny Town.
The original Razzie-worthy movie!
Brokeback Mountain is the best go-to to quash any argument that viewers are trans/homo-phobic towards modern movies. No, we are not. All we want is a good story, not a "check-all-the-social-boxes" story. Hedwig and the Angry Inch is another great example of telling a story of characters who are gay or trans, but the viewer doesn`t care, cause the story is so amazing. Gay, straight, trans, all female, whatever...I don`t care!! Just tell me a good story rather than force feeding me "the message".
Yep!
Good point. Many people outside homophobic USA asked me, so 'Brokeback Mountain' has 2 gay cowboys. OK, but what's the story?"
Yes but at the time, you can't claim that the viewer was ok with it.. western society has progressed a ton over the last decade and new generation of adults are far more accepting. To the extent that when some TV show reveals a character as gay, it barely registers as a big deal. But at the time, there was a ton of resistance and shock whenever a story introduced an LGBTQ character.
‘The Dark Knight’ not being nominated for best picture was criminal. Since then I lost interest in movie awards. Also, Nolan not being nominated for best director for Inception was unforgivable.
I remember 10 or so years ago I watched Crash in order to help a friend to complete a homework, without the knowledge that it was an Academy Award Winning movie. I couldn't believe what I saw, I'm not American but the way the movie handled the topic of racism and prejudice seemed so exaggerated, cartoony not very natural, etc. I couldn't believe it won Best Picture
it is a terrible film
Disagree
well it did come out in 2006
it reminded me of American Fiction lol
The idea that one movie is the “best movie” is ridiculous anyway. Different movies tell different stories and that elicit different responses.
DUH! OBVIOUSLY! ALL COMPARISONS OF ENTERTAINMENT ARE IDIOTIC STUPID GARBAGE!
It's not ridiculous
its inherently subjective but it isnt dumb
I really noticed that this year, I definitely liked Oppenheimer a lot when I watched it in theaters but I was kinda taken aback by how much I loved the holdovers or poor things and it seemed like everyone was in a consensus that Oppenheimer was just “the best movie” without even acknowledging some of the other awesome different films this past year. It’s weird that people decide which piece of art is better like it’s an objective thing.
Most movies are still pretty comparable though, you have to get to really high levels of great to where it is hard to compare them.
I knew the Academy Awards were a joke, when Heat wasn't even nominated in a single category!
🙄
_Heat_ is technically better made than anything else (not dramatically).
Heat is one of the worst films I have seen in my life.
To paraphrase Peter Griffin: I did not care for “Heat.”
The Iron Claw didn't receive a single nomination last year
Dear God, the clips of dialogue from Crash are so Razzie worthy.
I was 14 when crash came out and even then I found it basic. I hated it, I remember getting progressively angrier further into the movie, bc I felt like I was being treated like an idiot. On the other hand, I remember watching brokeback mountain in the theater with my mother. It was uncomfortable and weird, not only bc I had to watch a gay sex scene with my mom at age 14 (😂) but also because I had never watched homosexuality being portrayed so honestly and unapologeticaly in film before. I didn't know how to feel but I knew I was watching something special, thought-provoking, and most importantly; Good. It's an experience I'll never forget. That's what an oscar-winning film should do to you.
2:48 you forgot to mention the Screen Actors Guild Awards!
SAG only awards actors so it wouldn’t apply to Best Picture. 😉
LOL, no that would be Crash that received top honors at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Brokeback went home empty handed my guy.
Yeah i think the animation pictures get super hard screwed every year on the oscars
I stopped watching the awards altogether when Zootopia won the 2017 Best Animated over Kubo and the Two Strings. It was clear the voters had not watched both films. One was a largely forgettable story that kinda botched it's own message, the other pushed the boundaries of it's own medium.
Puss in Boots:The last Wish should have won best picture, and Paddington 2 a few years before.
@@thelastowlbear8110Zootopia was copaganda.
“Every year”? What about “Spirited Away” and “The Boy and the Heron”, two masterpieces by Hayao Miyazaki that deserved their wins? I also think “Shrek”, Finding Nemo”, “The Incredibles”, “Ratatouille”, “WALL-E”, “Toy Story 3”, “Rango”, “Inside Out”, “Zootopia”, “Coco”, “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”, “Toy Story 4”, “Soul”, and “Encanto” all deserved their wins in their respective years (even “Luca” was my personal favorite in 2021).
Wall-E is a masterpiece.
The Oscars and most award shows are garbage anyway.
And the whole Hollywood industry.
Well yeah, but they are important and influential.
*insert buzz lightyear meme here*
Crash was one of THE movies of its year.
Such a brave and original take! 🙄
Never heard of Crash. Only thing I noticed was that it had both Rhodeys in it
Yes you have. But definitely watch it. It's a great movie.
My pick is 1952 "The Greatest Show on Earth" winning over "High Noon" and "The Quiet Man".
Absolutely. Carol Burnett could have lampooned it without changing a word of the script.
Singing in the Rain probably should have been nominated as well.
I saw "Brokeback Mountain" for the first time last year (2023) and it was almost unbearably heartbreaking!! It was heartbreaking in 2005, and it will remain heartbreaking in 2065 and beyond. "Brokeback Mountain" will stand the test of time. I've never seen "Crash" and have no desire to.
Should at least give it a chance, for the screenwriter also having done Million Dollar Baby and/or Casino Royale.
Difficult to see, indeed. Still haven't seen it other than when in theater. Too painful for me. Too many I knew who were, as young men, in the same closed world of fear.
Clearly, the Academy has a bias against directors named Lee.
Including the one who won Best Director that year and then again? Yeah, sure.
or Leigh, as in Mike Leigh
You’re acting like it’s a big conspiracy when in fact voters just receive a bunch of screeners and vote on which they prefer.
@@201hastings Actually, I'm joking.
I feel like Munich was actually the best film that year and should have won, That's something I don't ever hear, but that is a great film.
Good Night and Good Luck was a good candidate as well.
Munich was average in absolutely every way. The whole year was crap.
@@nl3064 Your opinion. I disagree. Munich was a very good movie.
"Driving Miss Daisy" beat out "Born on the 4th of July", "Field of Dreams", and "Dead Poet's Society" - all of which were much better. That gets my pick for worst best picture. At least with "Crash", it was much better than Miss Daisy.
The soundtrack to Brokeback Mountain was also hauntingly beautiful. Important and powerful movie. Also, the whole "Oscars so White" is a disgustingly racist and segregationist notion. Reversing racism doesn't undo the past. Is it inconceivable that some years, a black actor doesn't deserve to win an acting award? Judge people on talent, not the color of their skin. It's that simple.
It was so in the past. I saw Raisin in the Sun and The Defiant Ones in the 50s when a young teenager and was so taken in the raw courage of the films .. esp. Defiant Ones. Still too much for so many whites to see. I went to an elementary school that was 70% black, rest Hispanic except for a few 'white' kids like me so watching the films and vaguely reading the reaction was a bit puzzling for me.
I mean 1948 was the year of the Heiress so Raising had no chance with that actress over OdH. Also that was the year of All the King's Men. Yeah that movie was way more technical. Very detailed. And that factors in wins as well.@@josepha.r5839
@@josepha.r5839if there was such racism then how did Denzel and Whoopi win in the early 90s?
My mom accidentally took me to see brokeback mountain in theater when I was 9. She kept my eyes covered almost the whole movie and was laughing about it for a long time.
«Accidentally»? Im sure she wanted to see it no. She forgot you were with her? I dont understand
Entering the theater was an accident. Staying there for the entire film was not.
That's also funny because besides that "one scene" in the beginning, do these guys ever go beyond just kissing? 😅
Lol! Like the time I accidentally took a first date to 50 shades of gray when we actually got tix for Jupiter ascending. 😅😂
We left immediately when I realized we were at the wrong screen, and went back for the right one.
Oh man, that movie. Hamfisted doesn't even begin to describe it. The actors could have just as well pulled out a white board, turned straight to the camera and started a two hour long lecture. The writers decided to just abandon any kind of subtlety all together. I don't know if it was an "artistic" choice or a prank or both...
Brokeback Mountain was a genuine and beautiful film. Ledger and Gyllenhaal both giving absolute banger performances was icing on the cake. Crash was condescending and preachy. And with its boatload of talent, underwhelming.
You sound condescending and preachy.
@@willpomeroy7711 edgy take.
I think the greatest honor is being nominated. The winners chosen is often hit or miss.
Its kinda funny that I have never watched Brokeback Mountain but I know about the movie, the premise, the actors, and the positive reviews.
As I was watching the video and he mentioned Crash I had no recollection of watching a movie named that. Once I saw Sandra Bullock, Ludacris and Michael Pena I realized that I did watch this movie and have forgotten everything about it since I watched it 2 years ago. Very much a forgettable film.
The fact stays, most people know of or watched Brokeback Mountain, it gave one of the best performances for the actors in it, and not a lot of pf people even know about Crush🤷 especially beyond US
I get upset every time I remember animation isn't given respect by the mainstream media. Animation is one of the greatest forms of art and entertainment to ever exist. It's such a shame that it's looked down upon. Animation isn't just for kids. And animation is just as impressive (if not more impressive) than anything done in live action or CGI
GREEN BOOK totally holds up. Still love watching that film and the performances are outstanding.
I loved that movie and so did my wife who is hard to please when it comes to movies.
Chicago over The Two Towers or Green Book even being nominated is also a joke.
You know they were wait for the third movie to give the oscar.
The musty side of center really doesn’t like the green book.
The green book is genuinely trash lol, its the epitome of everything wrong with the white savior trope. Im sick of seeing real life stories about minorities being adapted into films where the focus is shifted onto white characters, and the minorities are simply there to help with their character development lol
Edit: nvm i see what youre saying. I thought you were saying the greenbook was snubbed before i finished the video, i didnt even know that won best picture holy shit
Explain this “joke” I’m curious.. it be nice to have a subjective conversation if that’s in fact what you meant by “joke” about the green book..
@@201hastings If you're so far off that you think Green Book is a better dissection of racism than BlacKKKlansman, there's no point explaining to you.
Shakespeare in Love still ranks as the biggest failed winner of all time in the Oscars. How do you not give that to Saving Private Ryan??!!!
Let me break it down for you Barney style. Voters receive screeners in the mail and vote according to their preference. “Giving” it to saving private Ryan would go against the whole individual vote.
In 1981 the best picture winner was "ordinary people" not "elephant man"
who remembers "ordinary people" even by name (no I'm not talking about john legend's song) ?
Btw, redford also won best director award over lynch
That the way it goes. I'm fed up with people always saying crash didn't deserve its victory, shakespare in love didn't deserve its victory and so on...
dont blame the player, blame the game.
And let's think a little bit, what is more important, winning an award or earning money (people going to see a movie in theatre)
when you win a award it's a good ad to attract studios & others inverstors in your future projects. When you make money in theatre it already is.
I was just a young teen then but I saw both films that year and loved them both. I have to say that Ordinary People was one of my favorites of all time. Saw it a few years ago and and it was just as good as I remembered it.
I also loved Ordinary People, and was so moved by the acting, especially, the young fellow, played by Timothy Hutton. I still have a copy of this great movie, but definitely a tear jerker. I thought Redford's direction was very good. I also saw Elephant Man, another powerful film, but much later, and didn't know it had been released at the same time as OP.
There are still reactors watching Ordinary People on TH-cam today and loving it.
I liked Ordinary People. But, over Elephant Man .. which is a remarkable film ... Really?!
Timothy Hutton (Best Supporting Actor), Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, yes, I remember "Ordinary People."
"Norma Rae" was an excellent film that year also.
I knew it was CRASH before I even saw Jack...😂
My Dad (He worked in a movie store) once said when I asked him about if Shakespeare in Love (Saw it referenced in a show, never watched it) deserved an Oscar, he said, “No, Saving Private Ryan deserved it… [Skip some dialogue] Crash didn’t deserve its Oscar”
Slumdog Millionaire is infinitely worse but no one ever mentions that. Crash is a good movie, everyone just hates it because they think they're supposed to
Rt.who the hell remembers slumdog..? Like it was chose for its quirky memorable title but I don't remember a thing about it..
Agreed. Crash is a very good film and it’s not a crime it won. I’ve seen more undeserved wins than that one. As for the argument that it’s not in the public consciousness, that’s something unfair to hold against any film. Like who can make that call anyway?
@@reasonabledoubt6908 I remember parts of that movie, mostly because I was sort of forced to watch it (long-ish story that can boiled down to an ex-husband who had a tendency to not ask if I wanted to go to something for which he had already bought tickets).
Bologna. That's not even in the same stadium as some other massive misses
Slumdog Millionaire was a better movie than Crash by far.
Once you realize that the Academy Awards are nothing more than a popularity contest, and in no way honor cinema, you'll be a happier movie viewer.
Before watching this video I thought it was either going to be about Crash or Shakespeare in Love winning the best picture.
I think its lets politically charged than people make it out to be. The weighted way that the Oscar votes are tallied will always push for a “safe bet” or a “strong #2” over the more striking, controversial, or groundbreaking films. If even 5% of the voters decide that Broke Back Mountain is too controversial it’s enough to make it lose.
I LOVE the film Crash!!!
Lmao I was thinking “it has to be fucking Crash” before clicking
Before seeing the video, my Worst Oscar Win Pick is: Crash.
To be fair Brokeback Mountain is the definition of Oscar bait.
Two movies that I didn’t understand all the hype over were Lost in Translation and The Birdman.
This video reminds me the Moonlight Gaffe! Ahaha
Great video. I am a huge Star Trek fan and at age 70 have seen enough episodes to say so. I have always loved the dynamic of Kirk, Spock and Bones. Never before have I seen a version where without Spock, more Leonard Nimoy, there is no Star Trek. Yes of course Rodenberry and Lucy made it possible, Nimoy with Shatner made it great. Mr Nimoy once said Spock is a now a part of our culture, but if occasionally we could just think of Leonard, that would be nice. As a possible nerd, I certainly do. Thanks for a trip down memory lane.
Part of the problem is that there’s only one Best Picture award. There should be two: Best Production and Best Artistic Feature.
That's how it was for the very first Oscar awards -- Wings, Best Picture, and the great Sunrise as best artistic film.
Oscars 2019 gave us Black Panther and Bohemian Rhapsody as Best Picture nominees. The worst Oscars that I’ve ever seen.
There's "Slumdog Millionaire".....even Indians don't like it...except the song. And there was "Reader, Frost/Nixon, Milk and Benjamin Button for competition
I loved Slumdog Millionaire ngl. Great movie. Benjamin Button is up there too
Benjamin Button was awful. My thoughts were like Elaine Benes watching The English Patient: “Stop telling your stupid story and just DIE!!!”
Agree to disagree. Is the kind of slow burn movie that either keeps your interested or lost you from the beginning.
Slumdog Millionaire was an excellent movie.
I will never get over Forrest Gump beating Pulp Fiction for Best Picture
I think Forrest Gump deserved it,Pulp fiction felt like a story that had nothing to say,I didn't connect with any of the character
Forrest Gump was an instant classic, Pulp Fiction a cult classic.
Both are unforgettable and very well crafted films, but I'd say that FG pushed all the right buttons thematically and emotionally speaking, the way Forest is so easy to relate to, etc, a perfect Oscar pick without being Oscar-Bait.
Films like Pulp Fiction don't need Oscars.
Shawshank should have won
The takeaway discussed at the end is apt.
The Oscars may not actually be awarded to the most deserving.
But it gives a platform to movies that would otherwise only be seen by selective audiences.
Inglourious Basterds losing to The Hurt Locker also deserves a mention. I remember Kathryn Bigelow's movie got eviscerated by true military, who said that the scenario shown in that movie was plain implausible, particularly the way Jeremy Renner's character was written.
...and Inglorious Basterds was a realistic and plausible?
@@fabianhebestreit3240 No. It was never intented to be that.
@@fabianhebestreit3240significantly more realistic and plausible than hurt locker sadly. We watched that when I was in the usmc and the eod guys were absolutely shitting on it.
This film is a punching bag for every youtuber known.
This along with Green Book.
Although I do agree with your analysis, that was 2006. Race trumped sexuality at that time, whereas now I'd argue sexuality largely trumps race. But let's be honest here, this was not as bad as Shakespeare In Love beating out Saving Private Ryan.
That some voting members didn't even watch Brokeback because of it's sexual nature would mean it would never win with those attitudes at the time.
Green Book winning over Roma genuinely enraged me
Green Book was the better movie. I'm a huge fan of Alfonso Cuaron but for the category of best picture the right movie won. He won best director and best foreign film for Roma which was the more correct choice anyway.
Good that makes me happy
As soon as a I read the title I thought “it better be Crash”
A lot of these best picture winners are movies I only watched just once or twice. My cinephile heart will always go back to those films I rewatch over and over again and never grow tired of. ❤
Fact is that ultimately the choice is arbitrary. The voters don't select from every film released that year. They select from a short list submitted by the studios. The studios in turn don't necessarily pick the best film they've produced. They may select something they think has a chance of winning or based on some internal agenda. They also take steps to influence the judging. But even without such the final voting is subjective. Everyone has their own opinion about what would be the best film in any particular year and many times it will be something that was not even nominated.
You guys we have to remember not to look at this through a modern-day lens. We were just beginning, as a culture, to accept the notion of homosexuality in media. However, the issues of race had been coming to a head for a long time, and the movie crash, as simplistic and hackneyed as it may seem in 2024, was a breath of fresh air in regards to those topics.
Fucking Crash, right?
Driving Miss Daisy also beat Dead Poets Society somehow
A Silent Voice was snubbed so hard for best animated film and I will never get over it. It wasn't even nominated! And it was really good and popular! It's literally just because they think animation is for kids and basically ignore foriegn animation altogether.
Silver Linings Playbook is also one of those weird wins, in my opinion.
SLP didn’t win Best Picture.
@@JayFingers oh, you're right, it won Best Actress
Do the Right Thing getting snubbed, was when I knew this award was trash.
Everything Everywhere All at Once selected over Top Gun Maverick
Banshees as well
And thats a bad thing??
EEAAO deserved to win
The other Crash should’ve won an Oscar. The Cronenberg one starring James Spader about people who have a fetish and get off from violent car crashes. It took me so long to even find the movie on DVD anywhere because every store that listed ‘crash’ as in stock only ever had this one and not the cronenberg one.
I haven't trusted the Oscars since "Killers from Space" wasn't even nominated for Best Picture, 1954. Granted I was a kid....
Shakespeare in love
Agreed. I remember arguing with many people in my office after Crash won
Did you win
Why? You’re the issue..
I’m happy crash won
What I can say is this
last night Godzilla Minus One winning the Oscar for best VFX (but we all know it’s best director as well) was the best choice going forward in the industry
Saving Private Ryan should've won best picture over Shakespeare in Love.
Nominations for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 33 consecutive years, 1981 to 2013, every Best Picture winner had also been nominated for the Film Editing Oscar, and about two thirds of the Best Picture winners have also won for Film Editing. _Brokeback Mountain_ was not nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, but _Crash_ was nominated.
Forest Gump beating Shawshank Redemption is the biggest snub in Oscar history. No question
Well, Forest Gump is a good movie, at least imo
Shawshank couldn't get arrested when it was released. It became the most popular movie rental at blockbuster and of course cable TV took advantage of it.
They're both interchangeably on par with each other, in terms of being schmaltzy populist movies.
I don’t think so. I wanted Shawshank to win, but Forest was a good film too. You can’t know what film will have a more lasting effect on the culture. That’s unfair.
Cause Hollywood love stories sbout simplified racism. Makes them feel better about racism and the system that allows it. That's why people's love the help and green book too
Rich white people in the movie business are the last folk who should determine the best films about race relations.
@@jamesmeow3039They're not white, though.
Crash was not a bad film and it's non linear story telling was acc refreshing.
Like the video states, that format was nothing new or original when the movie came out
Wasn't "Munich" also nominated the same year? Another great movie.
Completely agree that Crash is the worst Best Picture winner in history (or at least in the last 30 years). Though Saving Private Ryan deserved to win, Shakespeare in Love was actually a good movie. But you made an error in saying that Driving Miss Daisy beat Do The Right Thing because Do The Right Thing wasn't even nominated for Best Picture (which is insane). Great video!
1952: The Greatest Show On Earth over High Noon and The Quiet Man. And the most memorable film of that year, Singin' In The Rain, wasn't even nominated.
1956: Around The World In 80 Days over Giant, The King & I, and The Ten Commandments. And the actual best movie that year, The Searchers, was even nominated.
1973: The Sting, a fun little caper film, won over The Exorcist, one of the greatest horror movies of all time.
1981: Chariots Of Fire, a forgettable Olympic racing pic more remembered for its score than anything in the film, won over Raiders Of The Lost Ark.
1982: Gandhi, an overblown biopic , won over The Verdict, Tootsie and freaking ET!!!!
1989: Driving Miss Daisy won over Field Of Dreams and Dead Poets Society while Do The Right Thing or Glory weren't nominated.
1990: Dances With Wolves won over Goodfellas. Seriously.
1998: Shakespeare In Love wins over Saving Private Ryan 🤦🤦🤦🤦
I could go on. The point is, there were some just as bad if not worse in Oscar history. Saying this was the absolute worst is hyperbole....
Chariots of fire is way better than the first indiana jones, i know it's subjective but give some respect
Great point/s. Do the Right Thing not getting ... unbelievable.