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20 Times the Oscars Got It Wrong
Yes, we're still talking about 'Crash' winning the best picture over 'Brokeback Mountain,' but we also can't get over snubs for 'Selena,' 'The Lego Movie,' 'Hoop Dreams,' 'L.A. Confidential' and more. Also, how have Glenn Close and Annette Bening never won an Oscar?!
By Mitch Brown, Lesley Corral, Aaron Couch, Kevin Dolak, Ryan Gajewski, Jason Head, Lily Ford, Shirley Halperin, Angie Han, Katie Kilkenny, Jennifer Levin, Kimberly Nordyke, Naomy Pedroza, Lexy Perez, Zoe G. Phillips, David Rooney, Julian Sancton, Steven Zeitchik That made it a crime when Penélope Cruz in Parallel Mothers lost to Jessica Chastain’s chewy turn in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, and I’d argue that the soulful interiority of Antonio Banderas’ work in Pain and Glory was every bit the equal of Joaquin Phoenix’s tortured physicality in Joker. But the most maddening snub, for me, is the omission of 1989’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, a surreal, emotionally rich, breathtakingly ornate rococo fantasy that contains some of the most memorable images ever put to film (including a never-more-beautiful Uma Thurman as Botticelli’s Venus, and a giant rising from the sea with a three-masted ship for a hat …).
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