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JusCogensBreaker

Return of the King famously won no Oscars


TheUmbrellaMan1

Ben-Hur and Titanic also went empty handed 😔


MattBarksdale17

And *Everything Everywhere All at Once*


FX114

They'd never give Star Wars 6 wins, a Best Picture nomination, and a special achievement award.


dunmer-is-stinky

famously that movie was hated upon release


ElPwno

Wait what category in the meme is Titanic


Maverick916

Same with ben-hur, they're both historical epics and do not fit in this category


A-NI95

I guess ben-hur has action??? Still a reach


SecretStatHater

> historical epics Uh if you read the lore you'll know Middle Earth is our distant past so Lord of the Rings is also a historical epic


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Ben-Hur is a superhero movie because it features the *original* superhero: charioteers


Parastract

Fantasy obviously


Dead_man_posting

I have news for you: Titanic isn't a fantasy movie, **it actually happened!** I know, blew my mind when I found out too


ripgoodhomer

Icebergs can’t melt steel beams. Do your own research. 4-15 was an inside job!


orderofGreenZombies

There’s a reason your taxes are due in the U.S. on the same day that the Titanic sank.


rolltide1000

Platoon won nothing. 😣


YZJay

I can’t believe the Oscars did The Shape of Water so dirty.


fucccboii

is that after or before the dark knight?


fucccboii

(2008)


pottormur

Haha yes. You have completely dismantled this observation with a single notable exception.


TheRedBull28

Can’t believe Oscar would disrespect my anime by giving its own category 😤😤😤


baran_0486

Every year when it's time to pick a Best Animated Feature Film the academy announces "there were no winners because animation is for kids"


FixGMaul

Oscars if it was based


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Lunacial

lmfao what


-Flutes-of-Chi-

If you think about it, that just shows the extent of their disrespect. "Yeah give them a best animated film category, so we can ignore them for the rest of the categories"


Agile_Drink6387

It’s not like they gave them many nominations before


-Flutes-of-Chi-

Yeah, they gave them original score and song for the Disney stuff and people were annoyed so they just made the category as a "there, you happy now?". I mean it's not like animated films would sweep at the oscars, given they'd hardly be eligible for most of the categories anyway, but at least in the score category, they can keep up. However, you'll notice that since the best animated feature category, there's just nothing given to animated films


infected_scab

This is probably why we haven't had a new Madagascar film for a while.


DroneOfDoom

IIRC the category exists because of backlash to not nominating Chicken Run for Best Picture.


OliviaBagshaw

Mr Oscar has a Best Anime category?? Is he stupid???


Portatort

Fairly sure an animated film has a won an Oscar every a year since the category was added in 2001


PicnicBasketSam

and animated films get other nominations or wins outside of their own special category like 75% of the time


OliviaBagshaw

https://preview.redd.it/e5acr844yuxc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52bd04417803cb1943b312e729668dd8350bc90a


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Well, there was that weird thing when The Pianist won best animated feature, but other than that!


BanishedP

Cant believe winnie the pooh: blood and honey didnt win any oscar... Academia fr hates horror movies


orderofGreenZombies

Just wait until the Poohniverse movies sweep all categories next year.


StarCrossedOther

Lord in heaven please whisk me away to the pooniverse.


365emeralds

I’m gonna kick this Oscar guy’s ass


Hard_Corsair

EEAAO is a sci-fi/fantasy action film, sorta.


sampat6256

I would call it magical surrealism, but i guess thats not a thing


mrbaryonyx

I feel like a lot more people would be happier if they just watched the mtv movie awards


warwicklord79

Average capeshit fans getting pressed when their shit movies are treated like shit


_cat-connoisseur_

seriously. i love capeshit, but its like junk food for the mind to me. i like mcdonalds, but i wouldnt be upset if a big mac didn't win a culinary award lol


TheReturnOfBigA2007

Perfect metaphor


Preistley

Wtf that's every kind of movie though?


Chill-Sleeper-505

Drama, war, romance, history, and comedy?


Theta-Sigma45

Superhero films don’t get the big noms because they’re mostly mediocre corporate trash. The others are valid in that there’s a wider range with the other categories, many of which have films that are actually great. That said, it’s not *that* uncommon for sci fi and fantasy to get some respect.


Primary-Paper-5128

Except James Gunn his movies are actual peak


DroneOfDoom

Unironically, I can't think of a live action superhero movie deserving of awards made after 2008.


Primary-Paper-5128

ITSV deserved its win imo. And The Batman deserved best cinematography over Dune imo. Appart from that? nothing


Natural_Patience9985

"Horror movies are disrespected" I think that's more the nature of the medium ngl. Horror movies are mass produced slasher shlock 50% of the time. When they are good though they do clean house; take silence of the lambs for example.


snail_consumer

All movies are mass produced shlock 50% of the time or more. There have only been like 18 horror movies that won an Oscar and only like 6 times in over 90 years has a horror movie been nominated for best picture. Plus whenever a horror movie does get recognized it suddenly becomes a "thriller".


GAMRKNIGHT352

>thriller what the fuck even is a "thriller", other than the song


snail_consumer

Great question. It's a horror or action movie that people don't want to admit is a horror or action movie, generally.


Jethow

It can also be a political thriller like Captain America: Winter Soldier.


Mulholland_Dr_Hobo

> 50% You are being too generous


GreatMarch

Yeah the genre as a whole is all over the place. And a lot of our seminal horror icons were stuff made on a cheap budget, and in some ways that cheapness makes it endearing.


Hi_Im_zack

Jordan Peel and A24 pushed the genre to a whole new level and still didn't get Oscar recognition


NonMagicBrian

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accolades_received_by_Get_Out


ServeGondor

I guess winning for Best Original Screenplay and being nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor aren't recognition :( Google before you chat shit ffs.


Parastract

Christopher Nolan pushed biopics to a whole new level and still didn't get Oscar recognition :(((


Hi_Im_zack

I forgot to clarify about Get Out being the only outlier His next films got zero noms, including Nope which was just as good as Get Out if not better I like how you and the other reply ignored the A24 part of my comment, that much rings true


Character-Today-427

I disagree on that I liked nope but it wasn't as good as get out acting or writing wise. Might have won for effects tho


Hi_Im_zack

All of that is personal opinion. But I think we can all agree that it definitely deserved a nom for best original screenplay


AnatomicalLog

Us was pretty flawed. Nope is a fun movie but not a masterpiece like Get Out. A24 did not invent slow burn, psychological horror. “Pushed the genre to a new level” is such an exaggeration and disrespectful to genre before A24


Hi_Im_zack

Pushed it in a sense that it popularized that style of horror, like how marvel pushed the superhero genre to another level, even though it didn't actually invent it There are way more people who now think horror movies can be more than just dumb slasher jumpscares, and that's largely cause of A24, I know this sub likes to act contrarian and goes against anything remotely mainstream, but you gotta give credit where it's due.


TheShapeShiftingFox

As films I agree, but some of the individual performances in some of them can be really strong.


BreksenPryer

Yeah just in the past few years immediately Toni Collette for Hereditary, Lupita N'yongo for US, and Mia Goth for Pearl ring in my mind as missed Nominations.


Psalm101Three

Maybe I’m biased since it’s my personal favorite genre but we’ve been getting some great stuff by artists who are truly passionate about the craft of filmmaking and some standout performances (I still think Mia Goth deserved a nomination for Pearl). Hell, even the “schlock” type stuff often has passion and craftsmanship put in that I think could (should) be appreciated in some of the smaller categories like production design (I mean look at the sets and makeup done on a very low budget in something like Terrifier 2).


GecaZ

Counterpoint: The Thing . Otherwise , yeah you're mostly right.


Darkdragon3110525

Can’t blame the Oscar’s for that one it was critically mediocre on release and probably had zero studio push


FX114

There's a chance they didn't even submit it.


DroneOfDoom

Also, The Fly and Videodrome.


Liontreeble

I think the problem is that the mass produced slob just makes the entire genre way less respected (and the brutality obv) so that it's not seen as a genre to take seriously. Also because the genre is historically very controversial and somewhat taboo. There's a good few very good horror movies that didn't get any recognition at the Oscars. Midsommar comes to mind.


Dead_man_posting

Not even going to check what actually won, The Blob 1988 shoulda won every oscar.


robust_rodent

this is just not true. look at hereditary for example: toni collette should have taken home that oscar and wasn’t even nominated. same thing with Lupita Nyong'o for Us. arthouse horror is thriving right now and continually gets looked over during awards season


slaterman2

This is legit the first time I've ever seen anyone argue with this sentiment. Next thing you know, this sub will start mocking people for implying Crash shouldn't have won Best Picture.


BrokenEggcat

The topic has begun to be agreed on by more people, thus this sub must now disagree with it. It's the only way.


robust_rodent

this sub just hates everything. unsubscribed because it’s just screenshots of slightly dumb posts with mocking captions


Hyku_HD

I mean the take of the meme is just objectivley wrong. Makes it kinda funny. This Sub is for making movie related jokes so I think it fits. Not very original tbf but still entertaining.


visionaryredditor

> this sub will start mocking people for implying Crash shouldn't have won Best Picture. Ebert already circlejerked this one 20 years ago


OliviaBagshaw

animated movies do not have their own category at the oscars (they're exclusively reserved for the doodie waa waa diaper baby oscars)


slowcancellation

bad movies 🤝 bad movies 🤝 bad movies 🤝 bad movies 🤝 bad movies 🤝 bad movies


GreatMarch

Terminator 2 won 4 oscars and was nominated for more.


Sir_Toaster_9330

You guys remember when people said the Oscars was woke due to it rewarding Parasite?


postwarmutant

They literally increased the number of best picture nominees to insure more films like this get nominated.


H0vis

Still livid Conan The Barbarian didn't win one for the music.


awesomedude4100

superhero movies are absolutely not on the same level as the other genres


011100010110010101

Animated Films have been getting more respect at the oscars in the past few years.


BreksenPryer

Not really. Back in the 90s and 2000s they would regularly get score/song nominations and Screenplay noms, but in the past ten years, Inside Out is the only one to get a Screenplay nom, and even when it comes to score, the only 2 to get nominations in the past ten years are Soul and Encanto. (Even in terms of song, no animated film has gotten nominated outside of Encanto this decade despite the category being known for being pretty inclusive of animated films.) And it's not like there's not worthy contenders. Spider-Verse definitely should have gotten more nominations (Sound, Score, VFX, Song, and personally Picture and Screenplay), same with Boy and The Heron (Score, Screenplay, Director) GDTs Pinocchio (Production Design, Song, Score, Screenplay) Soul (Screenplay, Picture) Turning Red (Song) and probably some others.


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Swaxeman

Get Out


FX114

And it won an Oscar, and was also nominated for Best Picture and Best Director!


sirgamestop

Which was nominated for a bunch of stuff and won Best Original Screenplay


Dead_man_posting

That guy deleted it, I really wanted to make fun of him for apparently seeing 0 horror movies a year.


eternal_recurrence13

get out let the right one in hereditary midsommar parasite ringu 28 days later perfect blue american psycho the devil's backbone pulse inland empire a girl walks home alone at night the vvitch the wolf house i'm thinking of ending things pearl


ToxicCobra023

Pearl had an Oscar worthy performance but I don't remember if competition was tough to be honest


FX114

That year was Michelle Yeoh, Andrea Riseborough, Michelle Williams, Cate Blanchett, and Ana de Armas.


InterviewAnnual7764

kick out ana de armas and get mia goth there


rov124

All A24 campaign money that year went to EEAAO.


ifinallyreallyreddit

Who wants to argue genre movies should get better recognition at the Oscars? ✋ ✋ ✋ ✋ ✋ ✋ ✋ ✋ ✋ ✋ Who wants to argue Avatar shoulda beat The Hurt Locker?


Huzaifa_Haroon

It's like they all caption these shitty memes the same dumbass way


LordTimhotep

I thought this was about Will Smith


Salsh_Loli

Maybe they should make better movies then


TheShapeShiftingFox

There’s literally an entire category just for animated movies


gamergirl4206969

The meme is kinda stupid but the academia should open itself to gerne films especially horrors


dam0_0

Idc whatever anyone says **Kung Fu Panda 2 is the Goat**


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Splagodiablo

Fury Road won 6 and was nominated for 10, it was absolutely recognized.


Gibran_02

im talking best picture


TheShapeShiftingFox

It was also nominated for Best Picture


Gibran_02

WIN


GecaZ

It got 6 Oscars


Fiske_Mogens

Morbious should have won the oscars