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    25 Biggest Oscar Snubs of All Time

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    Every year since the Academy Awards were invented, somebody has been overlooked, ignored, passed over, disregarded or brushed off. You know what they say about beauty and beholders.But perceived Oscar omissions — snubs, as we have come to call them — have grown into a frenzied annual conversation, with people left off the nomination list, or nominated but denied a statuette, sometimes receiving as much attention, or more, as those who win.These are the 25 true snubs and unjust losses that Times film critics, columnists, writers and editors still can’t get over. Read more →‘Do the Right Thing’ for Best Picture (1990)Actual winner: “Driving Miss Daisy”Spike Lee and Danny Aiello in the Brooklyn-set drama.Universal PicturesSome people hated this movie. Others, more ominously, feared it, or claimed to. News articles and reviews imagined riots sprouting in its wake (they never came), seeing in the character of Mookie — who, in a fit of righteous fury, smashes a pizzeria window in the film’s famous climax — confirmation of Lee’s insidious intent. Did academy voters have similar misgivings? Lee, who was shut out of the directing category, did receive a nomination for his screenplay, suggesting at least one branch of the organization had his back. (Danny Aiello was also nominated for supporting actor.) But it’s hard to look at the eventual best picture winner, “Driving Miss Daisy” — a film in which Morgan Freeman plays Hoke Colburn, the patient chauffeur of a bigoted, elderly white woman — and not see a statement of preference. In 1990, it was the Hoke Colburns of the world, not the Mookies, who were welcome on the academy’s biggest stage. REGGIE UGWU, pop culture reporterWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘The Blues Brothers’ Join National Film Registry

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      #masthead-section-label, #masthead-bar-one { display: none }The Best of 2020Best MoviesBest TV ShowsBest BooksBest TheaterBest AlbumsAdvertisementContinue reading the main storySupported byContinue reading the main story‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘The Blues Brothers’ Join National Film RegistryThe movies, along with “A Clockwork Orange” and “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” are among 25 selected by the Library of Congress.John Belushi, left, Aretha Franklin and Dan Aykroyd from “The Blues Brothers,” a new addition to the  National Film Registry.Credit…NBC/UniversalDec. 14, 2020, 3:00 a.m. ETAs the oft-quoted line from “The Dark Knight” goes, “You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” Now a more respectable immortality awaits this 2008 Christopher Nolan superhero blockbuster, which earned Heath Ledger a posthumous Academy Award for his performance as the Joker: it is among the memorable motion pictures, along with “Shrek,” “A Clockwork Orange” and “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” that have been chosen for preservation this year on the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry.On Monday, the library plans to make its annual announcement that it has selected a new roster of 25 films, from 1913 to 2010, that will be honored for their historical and cultural significance and added to this registry, helping to preserve them for future generations.Those selections include milestone films like “Lilies of the Field,” the 1963 drama for which Sidney Poitier became the first Black man to win best actor at the Oscars; and “The Hurt Locker,” Kathryn Bigelow’s 2008 war drama for which she became the first woman to win the best director Oscar.This year’s list also includes “Kid Auto Races at Venice,” the 1914 Keystone Studios comedy that was the first released film to feature Charlie Chaplin playing the character of the Little Tramp.Commercial hits like the animated “Shrek” (2001); the musical “Grease” (1978); and “The Blues Brothers” (1980), the comedy based on John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd’s recurring “Saturday Night Live” characters, have been chosen as well.The library noted that this year it had added nine films directed or co-directed by women. They include “Outrage” (1950), a drama from Ida Lupino and starring Mala Powers as a rape victim recovering from her trauma; “Suspense” (1913), a silent thriller written by, starring and co-directed by Lois Weber; and Kathleen Collins’s “Losing Ground” (1982), one of the few features of its time to be written and directed by a Black woman.All told, seven films from people of color were selected this year, the library said. They also include Melvin Van Peebles’s blaxploitation thriller “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” (1971); and “Freedom Riders” (2010), Stanley Nelson’s documentary about 1960s civil-rights activism in segregated America.Additional films include Otto Preminger’s drug-addiction drama “The Man With the Golden Arm” (1955), which starred Frank Sinatra; “A Clockwork Orange” (1971), Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of the dystopian Anthony Burgess novel; Wayne Wang’s “The Joy Luck Club” (1993), adapted from the Amy Tan novel; the concert film “Wattstax” (1973); and Wim Wenders’s musical documentary “Buena Vista Social Club” (1999).The Library of Congress said in a statement that these additions bring the total number of titles on its preservation registry to 800. Films must be at least 10 years old and “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” to be considered. Nominations can be made by the public at loc.gov/film and selections are made by Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress. A television special, featuring several of these films and discussions between Hayden and the film historian Jacqueline Stewart, will be shown Tuesday evening on TCM.Here is the complete list of the 25 movies chosen for the National Film Registry:1. “Suspense” (1913)2. “Kid Auto Races at Venice” (1914)3. “Bread” (1918)4. “The Battle of the Century” (1927)5. “With Car and Camera Around the World” (1929)6. “Cabin in the Sky” (1943)7. “Outrage” (1950)8. “The Man With the Golden Arm” (1955)9. “Lilies of the Field” (1963)10. “A Clockwork Orange” (1971)11. “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” (1971)12. “Wattstax” (1973)13. “Grease” (1978)14. “The Blues Brothers” (1980)15. “Losing Ground” (1982)16. “Illusions” (1982)17. “The Joy Luck Club” (1993)18. “The Devil Never Sleeps” (1994)19. “Buena Vista Social Club” (1999)20. “The Ground” (1993-2001)21. “Shrek” (2001)22. “Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege” (2006)23. “The Hurt Locker” (2008)24. “The Dark Knight” (2008)25. “Freedom Riders” (2010)AdvertisementContinue reading the main story More