I was totally ****ed off Paltrow won over Cate Blanchett in 1999 for Best Actress. Cate delivered the best dramatic performance that year..hands down.

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I would probably say (the first one that came to my mind) - Tilda Swinton. I didn't think that there was really anything special with her role - i mean she wasn't terrible, she's a great actress, but I just really didn't think that she was just so special in a way with that role that its an oscar winning performance.

Well I know what Oscar win infuriated me. Is "furiated" a word? Anyway, "Shakespeare In Love" winning for Best Picture was a crime.

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I thought at first the question was what Oscar wins made me grow fur.

There are so many, but Hellstrom Chronicle beating The Sorrow and the Pity for best documentary (1971) is right up there at the top.

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Love Tommy Lee Jones and all, but I'm still sore he beat the stunning Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List. How Jones's one note character beat the unforgetable, disturbing, yet multi-layered performance by Fiennes is a mystery to me.

In a perfect world, the usually brilliant Jones would have won the prior year for equally chilling turn in JFK, with Fiennes winning in 1993.

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I thought st first the question was what Oscar wins made me grow fur.

Whoever won in 1977 for Best Actress..was it Faye Dunaway? I thought Sissy Spacek should have won for "Carrie."

Not really furiated but I did not like Jolie's win. Though she gave a good performance, there were simply others who were much much better

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Originally posted by seanflynn:
I thought st first the question was what Oscar wins made me grow fur.

Good one. lmao.

Jennifer. Hudson.

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Love Tommy Lee Jones and all, but I'm still sore he beat the stunning Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List. How Jones's one note character beat the unforgetable, disturbing, yet multi-layered performance by Fiennes is a mystery to me.

In a perfect world, the usually brilliant Jones would have won the prior year for equally chilling turn in JFK, with Fiennes winning in 1993.

Yes, I didn't like that one at all. I would have given it to anyone but Jones in that category because I thought they were all a lot better than his one note performance. Although my personal preference would be Ralph Fiennes too with Leonardo DiCaprio just slightly behind him.

I also agree though that I would have awarded Jones the prior year or had he lost that year and Fiennes rightfully won, then I would have been okay with him winning Best Actor last year even though Day-Lewis was wonderful also. It sucks though because Jones' win means that whenever there might be a chance that Fiennes wins a make-up Oscar like Jones did, which means that someone else will get screwed again starting the whole cycle over again. Sort of like how Al Pacino won for one of his worst performances because he had never won prior to that causing Denzel Washington to get screwed out of one, which helped Washington win over Tom Wilkinson. Although to Washington's credit, imo, he was great too, but if he had won for Malcolm X like he rightfully should have, imo, then maybe Wilkinson would have an Oscar, or maybe Crowe would have rightfully won for The Insider since if Washington had won for Malcolm X, he wouldn't have been a frontrunner in The Hurricane which perhaps means someone else could have challenged Spacey instead of Washington, and perhaps that person, at least in my dreams, could have been Crowe winning for a complex performance instead of the average performance he did in Gladiator over Javier Bardem and Ed Harris.

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Jennifer. Hudson.

Oh I thought aside from the obvious. LOL!

Let's go "back in the day" for a minute

"Rocky" winning BP over "Network."

"Crash" winning BP over "Brokeback Mountain."

Oh, goodness! There are plenty of Oscar wins that have foliated me.

But I just apply a little moisturizer, and it goes away in a couple of days.

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Let's go "back in the day" for a minute

"Rocky" winning BP over "Network."

I guess I can still take in Rocky's BP win, but Best Directing? Too much already.

Martin Scorsese and Goodfellas losing Best Director and Best Picture to Kevin Costner (KEVIN COSTNER) and Dances with Wolves.

Art Carney winning Best Actor over Al Pacino and Jack Nicholson in 1975.

Helen Hunt winning Best Actress in 1998 over Helena Bonham Carter.

Mira Sorvino beating out Kate Winslet for Best Supporting Actress in 1996. And, that same year, Braveheart and Mel Gibson beating out Sense and Sensibility and Ang Lee for Best Picture and Best Director.

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Let's go "back in the day" for a minute

"Rocky" winning BP over "Network."

I don't agree with you on Shakespeare In Love (I think it was a great film), but I definitely see eye-to-eye with you on this one. Heck, even if Rocky won Best Picture, but like iskolar said, Best Director should have gone elsewhere that year.

Also, K, I'm with you on the Scorsese loss. Ugh. That man was way overdue when The Departed finally arrived.

For me, the infuriating win, believe it or not, was Morgan Freeman's win for Million Dollar Baby over Thomas Haden Church in Sideways. I thought that was one of the funniest supporting performances of the year.

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For me, the infuriating win, believe it or not, was Morgan Freeman's win for Million Dollar Baby over Thomas Haden Church in Sideways. I thought that was one of the funniest supporting performances of the year.

Personally, I thought Clive Owen was robbed that year.

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For me, the infuriating win, believe it or not, was Morgan Freeman's win for Million Dollar Baby over Thomas Haden Church in Sideways. I thought that was one of the funniest supporting performances of the year.

It's because they owe Morgan Freeman a lot after getting nominated thrice and still Oscarless, they thought it's a now or never scenario.

And did you remember Church's seat that Oscar? He was at the middle of the second row. That's not a good seat for winners, I tell you. haha! They basically know that he'll lose.

I would be okay with either Thomas Haden Curch [who gave the best comedic supporting actor performance] or Clive Owen [who gave the best dramatic supporting actor performance for Closer]. Sadly neither of them won.